XRP · XRP
The cross-border payments rail and XRP Ledger coin
Real cross-border-payments adoption on the XRP Ledger — but it isn't the dominant rail (stablecoins carry most on-chain volume), roughly 900M XRP a quarter reaches the market from escrow, and the token sees only light must-hold demand.
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XRP · nothing is minted. A monthly escrow drip sets the pace.
XRP is the native coin of the XRP Ledger. All 100B were created in the very first ledger in 2012 and no more can ever be made — about 62.5B circulate today, and the rest is held back in dated escrow contracts.
Sell pressure. No new coins are ever created. What moves is escrow: 1.00B XRP unlocks on the first of every month, so 3.00B came out across this window.
Buy pressure. Most of it goes straight back in — about 2.10B was re-locked into fresh contracts within days. Transaction fees destroy a further 37.1K XRP, which is real but tiny.
Net. About 900M XRP actually reached the market — near 1.44% of supply over 90 days, and the same again is queued for the next three months.
- Monthly escrow unlock~1.00B gross · ~300M netAug 1 2026 · added to market
- Monthly escrow unlock~1.00B gross · ~300M netSep 1 2026 · added to market
- Monthly escrow unlock~1.00B gross · ~300M netOct 1 2026 · added to market
XRP is never minted. The entire 100B supply was created in the first ledger in 2012 and the network has no way to issue more, so the total can only fall — it has never once risen.
One billion XRP is unlocked from escrow on the first of every month — three firings this window, on May 1, Jun 1 and Jul 1, for 3.00B gross. Most of it is locked straight back, and that return leg sits on the buy side; the net that actually reached the market was about 900M.
No unscheduled release. Two team-controlled overhangs are tracked: 32.30B XRP still sitting in the dated escrow contracts, and 3.62B XRP held unescrowed in identified issuer wallets, up only 52.4M across the window. A listed treasury vehicle holding 473.3M XRP has not yet completed its merger; any transfer to it would move XRP that already circulates.
No bankruptcy estate and no court-ordered distribution applies to XRP. The escrow contracts are the only long-dated lock, and they are already tracked in row 2.
No token buyback. The 750M dollar repurchase announced in Mar 2026 buys company shares, not XRP, and nothing in the protocol buys XRP off the market.
Every transaction destroys a small fee — about 37.1K XRP over the window, near 412 a day. It exists to make spam expensive rather than to shrink supply, so it barely dents the total.
The issuer sells XRP, it does not accumulate it. A listed treasury company is buying XRP on the open market, but open-market buying moves coins between holders and removes nothing from the tradable float.
Most of what leaves escrow goes straight back in. About 2.10B XRP of the 3.00B unlocked this window was re-locked into fresh dated contracts within days, leaving roughly 900M as the real release.
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