With Ripple performing significantly well on the charts recently, concerns have arisen over its upcoming 1 billion XRP unlock, which it does every single month to fund its operations. On January 1st, the market will witness 2025’s first token unlock event. The XRP community is waiting on how the token’s price will react to these Billions worth of XRP unlocks.
Will Ripple’s Token Unlock Affect XRP Price?
Notably, Ripple has 55B XRP tokens locked in an escrow account, which is nearly 55% of the total XRP supply. It unlocks a 1B supply on the first of every month. The unlocks are made to provide liquidity to exchanges and partners, not for buying or selling, which prevents them from directly entering the market and affecting the price.
The December unlock, Ripple’s largest XRP sell-off, also did not impact the price, as it remained around $1.8 and even surged the following day due to many bullish factors, including the RLUSD stablecoin launch. On January 1, 2024, Ripple will unlock 1B XRP in three transactions, 200M XRP, 300M XRP, and 500M XRP, which is nearly 1.75% of the XRP’s total circulating supply.
Analysts Bullish Over XRP
A prominent onchain analyst, Ali Martinez recently took to X to share that whales bought another 60 million XRP in the last 48 hours. XRP is currently trading at $2.18, down over 4% in the past 24 hours. Another analyst, Egrag Crypto in his recent analysis has noted that with BTC Dominance decreasing and ETH Dominance rising steadily, XRP has the explosive potential to outperform both. Currently at 3.93% dominance (above Fib 0.382), and if XRP closes above Fib 0.5 (5.57%), then we could see a double-digit dominance ahead.
Analysts like Javon Marks are optimistic that XRP will outperform expectations. Recently, he highlighted that XRP lately demonstrated strength not seen since its 2017 rally, with potential for even more growth.
2025, Landmark Year for XRP?
Bitstamp, the world’s longest-running cryptocurrency exchange, has forecasted that 2025 could be a landmark year for XRP, which has sparked excitement in the XRP army and the wider crypto community.
Furthermore, the recent approval of RLUSD by the New York Department of Financial Services highlights the XRPL’s role in enterprise-level payments, tokenization of real-world assets, and DeFi. Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse has recently described RLUSD as the “gold standard for the enterprise sector,” underscoring its alignment with XRP’s ecosystem.
