Hold onto your hats, dear reader, because the @XRPwallets account on X (the social media place that never sleeps) has dropped a whopper of an update. This year, the blockchain behemoth Ripple has been hoarding XRP like a dragon hoards gold, and yes, it’s more than last year. Cue the confetti and sound the trumpets!
The post spilled the beans about Ripple’s March stash, just before they flung open the escrow vault on Wednesday. Turns out, the company now has more XRP in its spendable wallets than ever before-enough to make even a greedy goblin blush.
Behold the XRP Mountain!
According to the post, Ripple’s San Francisco lair held 4.968 billion XRP, then 5.026 billion, and finally a mind-boggling 5.08 billion XRP in March alone. On April 1, in a move worthy of a cheeky April Fool, Ripple unlocked 1,000,000 billion XRP. That’s a number so large it could give your calculator a nervous breakdown.
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At the time of release, this colossal pile of digital coins was worth a casual $1.34 billion in fiat. These monthly unlocks have been happening like clockwork since 2018, when Ripple locked away a staggering 55 billion coins in cryptographic treasure chests.
Ripple Holdings
2026
MAR= 5.08B XRP
FEB= 5.026B XRP
JAN= 4.968B XRP2025
DEC = 4.909B
NOV = 4.871B
OCT = 4.878B
SEP= 4.814B
AUG= 4.775B
JUL= 4.777B
JUN= 4.717B
MAY= 4.696B
APR= 4.652B
MAR= 4.581B
FEB= 4.606B
JAN= 4.552B– XRP_Liquidity (@XRPwallets) April 2, 2026
The unlock was executed in two neat little bundles of 500,000,000 XRP each. But wait! On April 2, Ripple mischievously locked 700,000,000 XRP back in two batches (500,000,000 and 200,000,000 XRP), leaving roughly 5 billion XRP lounging in their wallets like lazy golden ducks.
Last December, they had “only” 4.909 billion XRP coins, which now seems almost quaint.
Brad Garlinghouse and the Secret Treasury Magic
In today’s tweet, Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse unveiled the “secret sauce” behind the Ripple Treasury, now powered by GTreasury’s wizardry-oops, I mean, treasury management software. According to Brad, it will make life easier for financial institutions already tangled in Ripple workflows.
The secret sauce is simple: 1/ give Corporates a trusted, regulated entry point embedded in workflows they already use, 2/ remove the friction between managing different accounts (fiat or digital). Both of those are now solved today with Ripple Treasury.
Ripple Treasury is on a…
– Brad Garlinghouse (@bgarlinghouse) April 2, 2026
This clever gizmo allows fiat and digital accounts to play nicely together, eliminating the squabbles that used to plague them. Brad reminded everyone that in 2025, Ripple orchestrated a jaw-dropping $13 trillion in payments for its institutional pals. This year, he promises an even taller tale with native digital asset capabilities. “LFG!” he cheerfully exclaims, waving his magic wand.
Meanwhile, Brad continues to fend off the teasing of rival blockchain folks. Today, he clapped back at Avalanche’s founder, Emin Gün Sirer, after a feeble April Fool’s jest doubting that banks actually use Ripple. Spoiler alert: both blockchains are buddy-buddy with major banks-Ripple with Santander and SBI Holdings, Avalanche with J.P. Morgan and Citi. Perhaps next year they’ll all meet for tea?
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2026-04-02 10:32