XRP Price Holds Steady After September Escrow Release
Ripple released approximately 1 billion XRP tokens from escrow on September 1, 2026 — valued at around $1.38Bn at the time — but the market reacted calmly with minimal price movement. The token traded near $1.42 five days later, indicating that traders no longer view these scheduled releases as a trigger for panic selling. Ripple's escrow mechanism has been in place since 2017 and involves locking large amounts of XRP into time-based contracts on the XRPL ledger. Each month, up to one billion tokens are unlocked; however, Ripple typically re-escrows most of them at the end of each cycle. In September, it returned about 700 million XRP back into escrow after unlocking. The broader market context likely helped absorb the supply increase: XRP had a strong August with ETF inflows and rising on-chain activity. Institutional interest appears to be growing as evidenced by increased XRPL payment volumes and active addresses.
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