XRP Ripple Held Firm After its September Escrow Release

XRP Ripple released 1 billion tokens from escrow on September 1, worth roughly $1.38Bn at the time, and the sell-off traders have feared for years never materialized.

The token was trading around $1.38 when the tokens hit Ripple-controlled wallets and sat near $1.42 five days later. That muted reaction matters because it suggests the market has stopped treating a scheduled, predictable release as an automatic reason to dump.

Here is the tension worth unpacking: did the crypto market genuinely absorb this unlock through structural demand, or did a strong August simply mask what would otherwise have been a rougher week for XRP?

RIPPLE LOCKS 1 BILLION XRP BACK INTO ESCROW 300M XRP → Ripple (1)500M XRP → Ripple (17)200M XRP → Ripple (16) 1,000,000,000 XRP in total locked back into escrow.