Whale Alert recorded two large XRP transfers from Ripple amounting to nearly a billion coins: 500 million and 400 million XRP, which totals $254.7 million and $203.8 million respectively. Ripple regularly releases one billion XRP per month, returning about 80% back to escrow to support liquidity.
A transfer of 31.1 million XRP to the Bitso exchange was also recorded, confirming Ripple's collaboration with this platform. As a result, the price of XRP increased by 3% to $0.51833.