One Wallet, One Night: The 640,000,000 XRP Transfer That Shocked Everyone 😱

Fate, like a sardonic banker, moves money—and men—without warning. There were those, for example, who lived quietly in the village of Blockchain, peering over their spectacles at their ledgers when, without so much as a knock at the door, Whale Alert arrived with news. Monstrous sums of XRP, carted off in the night: transactions so vast they could buy three provincial towns and a really good samovar.

In succession—like old Aleksei’s debts at the tavern—three mysterious bundles, wrapped in zeros, wobbling between “anonymous” wallets, while onlookers gasped and refreshed their screens anxiously. Not one soul could say for certain who carried out these feats: 320,000,000 XRP shuffling off in one direction, 160,000,000 in another, and yet another 160,000,000 going off for a brisk walk around the digital block. In rubles—well, in dollars, as is the style nowadays—the sum amounted to $1.4 billion. Enough to keep a village accountant in insomnia till next Lent.

🚨 🚨 🚨 🚨 🚨 🚨 🚨 🚨 🚨 🚨 320,000,000 #XRP (703,517,724 USD) transferred from unknown wallet to unknown wallet

— Whale Alert (@whale_alert) June 30, 2025

Noses twitched. Eyebrows raised. In the coffee houses, the XRP militia speculated with all the fervor of provincial theater critics. Was this a whale? Or just a fisherman bragging at the market about his catch? The conspiracy grew: some suggested that perhaps Ripple, like a sleepwalking uncle, had accidentally unlocked the family vault before breakfast.

In the midst of this melodrama, a certain @XRPwallets—a kind of street vendor with opinions—declared that the culprit was no stranger at all, but Japan’s own SBI, shuffling fortune from one of its alleys to another, perhaps to hide from prying aunts or nosy neighbors.

Internal Bitgo Initialization Wallet (Self Custody) transaction.

This is the 320M that was just sent from SBI VC Trade 4. Now forwarded as two 160M transactions within Bitgo Init. Wallet.

Where will it go from here? See link below👇

— XRP_Liquidity (Larsen/Britto/Escrow/ODL/RLUSD) (@XRPwallets) June 30, 2025

Another citizen, sleeves rolled up and magnifying glass in hand, observed: yes, the shipment had set forth from “SBI VC TRADE 4”—the digital equivalent of leaving from Chekhov’s provincial station, with an air of mystery and perhaps a packed lunch.

Meanwhile, huddled at his digital samovar, Ripple’s chief—one Brad Garlinghouse—thumped his chest and bellowed optimism. “XRP will reach $50!” he roared, pointing at a tattoo on his shoulder as if to say, “Look! I suffer, therefore I believe.” The XRP army, their uniforms pressed, marched on: the price had crawled to $2.18, up a whopping 11% since last Monday. Someone ordered another round of tea. The drama endures.

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2025-06-30 11:25