The @XRPwallets account on the X social media network has published a new update about this year’s amount of $XRP held by the blockchain behemoth Ripple.
The post has disclosed how much $XRP the company held in March, right before the most recent $XRP release from escrow that took place on Wednesday. Overall, according to the tweet, Ripple now holds more $XRP in its spendable wallets than it did last year.
Here’s how much $XRP Ripple holds now
According to the data revealed in the post, the San Francisco-based crypto firm held 4.968 billion $XRP, 5.026 billion $XRP, and 5.08 billion $XRP in March. On April 1, Ripple conducted a scheduled escrow release, unlocking 1,000,000 billion $XRP.
At the time of the release, this sum of crypto amounted to $1.34 billion in fiat. These regular unlocks have been taking place every month since 2018, when Ripple locked 55 billion coins in cryptographic escrow accounts.
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= 4.552Bhttps://t.co/zsobnUAFkl https://t.co/R8bPiHmK75— $XRP_Liquidity (@XRPwallets) April 2, 2026
The unlock was made, as usual, in two transactions, carrying 500,000,000 $XRP each. On April 2, Ripple locked back 700,000,000 $XRP in two batches – 500,000,000 and 200,000,000 $XRP.
Therefore, now there are roughly 5 billion $XRP in Ripple’s wallets.
Last year, in December, Ripple held 4,909 billion $XRP coins.
Brad Garlinghouse highlights Ripple Treasury’s new platform
In today’s tweet, the CEO of Ripple, Brad Garlinghouse, shared the “secret sauce” of the Ripple Treasury now utilizing GTreasury’s treasury management software. Per Garlinghouse, it will benefit financial institutions in the workflows they already use with Ripple.
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… https://t.co/ukauGxRBnC
— Brad Garlinghouse (@bgarlinghouse) April 2, 2026
The second beneficiary point he named is that Ripple Treasury enhanced by Gtreasury’s software will make it easier for fiat and digital accounts to be used together and remove friction between them. Garlinghouse reminded the community that in 2025, Ripple facilitated a staggering $13 trillion in payments for its institutional customers. This year, he expects, this record will be let behind replaced by a new, much bigger one. “This year, with the addition of native digital asset capabilities? LFG!”
Meanwhile, Garlinghouse continues to protect Ripple from criticism of rival blockchains. Today, he struck back at the Avalanch founder, Emin Gün Sirer, following his bad April Fool’s joke. In that joke, he doubted that banks are using Ripple.
In fact, both blockchains have been actively collaborating with major banking institutions. Ripple with Santander and SBI Holdings, and Avalanche – with J.P. Morgan and Citi.
