Enormous 131,000,000 XRP Shifted Anonymously, Here’s Big Player Behind It

The crypto community went buzzing as the prominent blockchain tracker Whale Alert shared the details of a transaction that moved a whopping 131,000,000 XRP anonymously. Still, additional on-chain data helped to shed light on the identity of the recipient.

Whale Alert is widely known in the crypto space for monitoring large cryptocurrency transactions and sharing the details on its X account and its website.

This transaction coincided with a decline of 5.37% experienced by XRP over the past day.

131,000,000 XRP on the move, recipient unveiled

The aforementioned data source reported that two unknown wallets had exchanged a massive amount of crypto – 131,000,000 XRP. At the time of the transfer, this XRP chunk was valued at $273,945,648.

The XRP community became intrigued by this massive transaction between anonymous wallets and began to guess as to the likely purpose of this transfer. Many assumed it was a large over-the-counter sell. One X user, however, stated that this was allegedly a transaction made between wallets affiliated with the Binance crypto exchange.

Still, the details of the transaction provided by the XRP-focused data platform Bithomp show that the receiving wallet indeed is linked to Binance, while the owner of the sending wallet was not identified.

Earlier this week, Whale Alert spotted two other large XRP transfers. On April 14, an anonymous wallets exchanged 70,000,000 XRP worth $150,361,090. The community believes it was an internal Ripple transfer linked to its Ripple Payments system.

On the following day an unknown whale shoveled 29,532,534 XRP to the largest cryptocurrency in the US – Coinbase. However, according to Bithomp, it was an internal Coinbase transaction.

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