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By Omkar Godbole|Edited by Parikshit Mishra
Jun 17, 2025, 6:48 a.m.
- The number of XRP whales has surged to life-time highs.
- The cryptocurrency has gained just 7.5% this year.
The number of whale wallets holding large amounts of XRP
has increased to a record high in a sign of confidence in the cryptocurrency’s price prospects.
“There are now over 2,700 whale & shark wallets holding at least 1M XRP for the first time in the asset’s 12 plus year history,” blockchain analytics firm Santiment said on X.
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Additionally, the amount of active XRP addresses has averaged over 295,000 per day over the past week, significantly higher than the average of 35,000-40,000 over the past three months.
XRP is the payments-focused cryptocurrency used by the fintech company Ripple to facilitate cross-border transactions. As of writing, the cryptocurrency traded flat around $2.23, representing a 7% gain for the year, CoinDesk data show.
Omkar Godbole is a Co-Managing Editor on CoinDesk’s Markets team based in Mumbai, holds a masters degree in Finance and a Chartered Market Technician (CMT) member. Omkar previously worked at FXStreet, writing research on currency markets and as fundamental analyst at currency and commodities desk at Mumbai-based brokerage houses. Omkar holds small amounts of bitcoin, ether, BitTorrent, tron and dot.
