What's up, my people! Stay tuned for the latest bombshell that Ripple dropped with its famous cryptocurrency, XRP! Turns out, the folks at Ripple surprised us with a move that left more than one with their mouth open. Remember that every month Ripple would release a hefty amount of XRP from its reserve? Well, hold on tight, because this July things were different.

Traditionally, the guy would release the one billion XRP all at once, like spilling gossip in the neighborhood! But no, this month it was done in parts, as if they were dosing the excitement. First, on July 1, they released 500 million XRP, and just when we thought that was it, bam! On July 4, they kicked in the second punch and released another 500 million. That's how they completed the billion tokens released in July! Can you imagine the faces of those who were expecting the traditional move? 😲

This move did not go unnoticed, not at all! The crypto detectives at Whale Alert tracked it, and then XRPwallets confirmed it. This is not just a whim of Ripple, no sir! It seems they are changing their strategy on how they handle those XRP reserves. It's as if they used to have a fixed choreography, and now they are improvising a bit more, to the rhythm of the market!

And why this change, you may ask? Well, it's said that since March 2025, Ripple has been giving more flexibility to how it releases its tokens each month. It's no longer the same boring unlock as before. Now, they use smart contracts to release the tokens in phases, like a dropper, so they can react faster to how the money moves and if people are using their products. They are strategists, like a domino player on the corner! 🎲

And here comes the interesting part: of those one billion tokens they released this month, pay attention! 700 million were put back into storage, just like someone saving change for later! 🔒 The remaining 300 million will be used for very specific things. For what, you ask? Well, to finance projects like ODL (On-Demand Liquidity), which is for moving money quickly between countries, for publicly traded products, and for other infrastructure stuff. In other words, they are using that cash so that XRP has more use and value in the street.

But watch out, my people, Ripple still has a ton of XRP stored away, like 36.4 billion in deposit and about five billion in liquid reserves. With this new strategy, analysts are watching closely. They say that now it can't be predicted exactly when and how they will release the XRP, which adds a bit of spice and uncertainty to the market. It's like a good meringue, you never know what move is coming! 💃

Meanwhile, the price of XRP at the time of writing this was $2.23, with a slight drop of 2.7% in the last 24 hours. So, stay alert, don’t blink, because with Ripple and XRP, there’s always a new chapter in this crypto soap opera!$XRP