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Large XRP Holders Have Accumulated 770M Tokens Since the Binance Hack

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Two groups of large XRP holders have added 770 million tokens to their combined balances since the Binance hack occurred five days ago. Specifically, the groups include addresses holding between 1 million and 10 million XRP and those with balances ranging from 100 million to 1 billion XRP. On Oct. 28, a day before the Binance exchange exploit , these XRP holders had a combined balance of 12.05 billion XRP, worth more than $15.9 billion at the time. Of this figure, wallets holding 1 million to 10 million XRP had 3.91 billion tokens, while those with 100 million to 1 billion XRP held 8.44 billion tokens. The cumulative figure has since risen to 12.82 billion XRP, with the holdings now worth more than $16 billion.

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