Ripple Starts Burning RLUSD Hard – 2 Million Stablecoins Scorched in One Go
2024-10-10

Ripple has excited the XRP community by a massive RLUSD burn performed on Wednesday. It was the first large token burn after the company had minted a mammoth 42 million stablecoins recently.
This was done as part of the continuous private beta RLUSD has been in since the beginning of August. As two million Ripple-made stablecoins got locked in an unspendable blockchain wallet, the XRP community responded with a wave of comments, showing their enthusiasm and encouraging Ripple to continue testing their new asset.
Ripple burns 2 million stablecoins
According to the Ripple Stablecoin Tracker account on the X platform, a mammoth chunk of 2,000,000 RLUSD stablecoins were burned at the RLUSD Treasury less than 24 hours ago.
Earlier this week, the Treasury burned less than half a million Ripple USD stablecoins in approximately four small chunks. Prior to start this circle of token burns, Ripple had issued several batches of RLUSD, comprising 42 million coins.
The largest of them constituted 10 million RLUSD and the others contained slightly more than 6 million stablecoins each.
Huge burn. Finally kicked it into 5th gear!— Devin (@Dev_Dimmadome) October 9, 2024
Recently, the official Ripple account warned the XRP community to stay vigil against scammers who claim that RLUSD is already available, offering to buy it or link their wallets to a website where it can be done.
RLUSD is still in a private beta, the company reminded the XRP army.
193 million XRP on the move
According to the prominent blockchain sleuth Whale Alert, over the past 48 hours, an impressive amount of XRP has been transferred – close to 193 million XRP, moved in several large transactions.
The aforementioned source spotted four large XRP transfers in the past 48 hours. 21,160,000 and 19,070,000 XRP chunks were transferred to centralized exchanges Bitso and Bitstamp. Those XPR batches were worth $11,052,822 and $10,107,880, respectively.
A whopping 100,000,000 XRP valued at $53,057,020 at the time of the initiated transaction were transferred from one anonymous wallet to another. Finally, earlier today, 52,000,000 XRP (the equivalent of $27,373,243) mysteriously left the Bybit crypto exchange.
These large XRP transfers indicative of an increased whale activity have taken place while the seventh largest cryptocurrency in terms of market capitalization size, XPR, has been trading sideways over the past week, moving in the $0.52 range since October 3.