Ripple unlocked 1 billion XRP from an escrow account at the start of October.

U.Today, a blockchain media outlet, reported on Wednesday that the release was carried out in four transactions. The market is watching how much Ripple will place back into escrow within the next 24 hours.

The released amount was split into 400 million, 200 million, 300 million and 100 million XRP. Their values at the time of release were $595,636,565, $297,818,282, $446,727,424 and $148,909,141, respectively. Even if 1 billion XRP appears to have been released, not all of it immediately enters circulation.

Ripple has released XRP from escrow at the start of each month, but it has typically repeated a process of locking a substantial portion back up. In the past, Ripple re-deposited about 700 million to 800 million XRP from the unlocked amount, and used the rest for operating funds, ecosystem support and other activities. As a result, the actual increase in circulating supply this month is expected to become clear only after the re-deposit 규모 is confirmed.

On-chain data show 31,845,138,050 XRP are currently locked in escrow. That is 31.9 percent of the total issuance of 100 billion XRP. Circulating supply stands at 68,126,080,636 XRP, or 68.1 percent. A total of 14,394,279 XRP have been burned so far, equal to 0.014 percent of total supply.

The escrow balance was above 32.4 billion XRP several months ago, but has now fallen to around 31.8 billion. As a result, the size of net monthly supply and the remaining escrow amount will vary depending on how much Ripple locks up again after this 1 billion XRP release.

Several changes are also under way in the XRP Ledger ecosystem. 'LendingProtocolV1_1' is currently up for validator voting. The amendment introduces closed vaults and cash-basis accounting, and must be activated before revisions to the lending protocol and a single-asset vault amendment proceed.

Payment processing indicators are also rising. On the XRP Ledger, x402 payments have surpassed 10 million. The figure came in less than three months after passing 1 million. JA Arinyere (JA 아키녜레), head of engineering at RippleX, said, "Current transaction volume is still being driven by AI agents' inference and data payments." He added, "The scope of x402 services has begun to expand across financial data, risk, credit and agent APIs more broadly." He also said the average daily processing pace over the past seven days was 500,000 transactions.

There was also a Brazil capital markets case. Central securities depository CSD BR is recording securities ownership on a public blockchain for the first time and chose the XRP Ledger as its base. CSD BR began work with Ripple to move Brazil's regulated capital markets on-chain, and in the first phase introduced a structure to protect BTG Pactual fund shares with Ripple Custody.

Market focus is returning to escrow operations. If Ripple discloses the re-deposit 규모 within the next 24 hours, the amount of XRP that actually remains in the market this month is expected to become clearer.