In a latest tweet, Ripple CTO David Schwartz is engaged on a query concerning the timing of the corporate’s XRP escrow launch.
X customers requested questions alongside this topic, pointing to his observations that over the previous few months, escrow releases look like random dates relatively than typical first days of the month.
Customers cited the newest launch of 1 billion XRP for instance. Within the final 24 hours, Blockchain Information Tracker Whale Alert reported 1 billion XRP unlocked from Ripple Escrow with three tranches: 500 million XRP, 100 million XRP and 400 million XRP. This occurs as an surprising factor contemplating the standard first day of the month, with Whale Alert reporting on August ninth.
X customers identified that when taking a look at XRP Ledger Explorer’s XRPSCAN, Blockchain Explorer’s on-chain knowledge all the time indicated the primary day of the discharge date, so they may not say whether or not the discharge date was set to August ninth when it turned public data.
They’re all the time launched on the primary day of the month. Simply because an escrow is launched would not essentially imply it’s going to seem in ledger actions. The ledger does nothing by itself. It all the time waits for somebody to submit a transaction to set off it.
– David ‘Joelkatz’ Schwartz (@Joelkatz) August 9, 2025
On August 2nd, Whale Alert reported that 700 million XRP was trapped in Ripple Escrow in three tranches of 500 million XRP and three tranches of 200 million XRP transactions.
XRP Escrow hypothesis has been crushed
In response to X customers’ questions, Ripple CTO David Schwartz revealed that escrow releases all the time happen on the primary day of the month. He explains that escrow could possibly be launched, however the XRP ledger itself won’t robotically course of or show this till a transaction is submitted, resting X customers’ guesses that Ripple might launch it directly if it manipulates an escrow settlement and selects 36 billion XRPs.
“They’re all the time launched on the primary day of the month. Simply because escrow is launched would not essentially imply they’re seen in ledger actions. The ledger does nothing by itself. It is all the time ready for somebody to set off it to submit a transaction,” Schwartz replied.
With a latest launch, XRPSCAN knowledge reveals 35,608,394,748 XRPs presently held in Ripple Escrow.
