#XRP🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀 The ownership of XRP coins is distributed among various entities, with the top holders being ¹ ²:
- *Top Holders:*
- Ripple Labs: Holds approximately 46 billion XRP tokens, the largest portion of the XRP supply. Ripple's own addresses contain the highest amounts of XRP, with one address holding over 1.7 billion coins.
- *Exchanges:*
- *Uphold*: Holds around 1.85 billion XRP, worth approximately $4.5 billion at current market rates.
- Binance: About 1.83 billion XRP tokens are stored there. - *UPbit*: Holds around 995 million XRP tokens.
- *Bithumb*: Holds around 1.47 billion XRP tokens.
- *Founders:*
- *Chris Larsen*: Co-founder of Ripple Labs, holds around 5 billion XRP tokens.
- *Brad Garlinghouse* is Ripple's current chief executive officer. He holds a significant amount of XRP, but the amount is not made public. It's worth noting that the distribution of XRP among holders is relatively centralized, with the top 10 addresses controlling around 18.63% of the total circulating supply. The top 20 addresses hold around 25% of the circulating supply, while the top 50 addresses control around 53.3% of the total supply ¹.
