Whale flows turn sharply two-way as the rally matures XRP's largest holders have moved extraordinary amounts of the token both onto and off Binance during the rebound, complicating attempts to characterize whales as outright buyers or sellers.
In its latest report shared with CryptoSlate, CryptoQuant reported that daily whale inflows to exchanges surged to roughly 460 million XRP during the rally, their highest level since February. The increase placed a large quantity of XRP within reach of the exchange as the token's price accelerated.
However, more recent CryptoQuant data shows the trend extended beyond a single session. Whale inflows into Binance reached approximately 1.451 billion XRP over 30 days, the highest four-week total in four months, after declining through July and early August.
XRP Whale Inflows (Source: CryptoQuant) Exchange deposits can precede selling, but they can also reflect trading, collateral management or portfolio reallocation and do not establish that the transferred XRP was sold.
Meanwhile, the other side of the ledger has become equally pronounced.
Darkfost, CryptoQuant's analyst, pointed out that large XRP withdrawals from Binance surged to 231 million tokens by Aug. 21, more than four times the level recorded two days earlier and the highest in about six months. At recent prices, the movement was worth more than $330 million.
XRP Whale Outflows From Binance (Source: CryptoQuant) Large exchange withdrawals can reduce immediately available sell-side supply and are often associated with accumulation or movement into longer-term custody. Without net-flow and wallet-level evidence, however, the simultaneous surge in deposits makes the direction of overall whale positioning less clear.
The scale of the activity shows how rapidly large-holder behavior has changed as XRP recovered from below $1.
ETF investors have continued adding exposure, RLUSD supply on XRPL is approaching $1 billion, and whales are withdrawing unusually large amounts from Binance.
At the same time, the 460 million XRP daily inflow spike and 1.451 billion XRP accumulated deposits show that substantial supply has also been moving toward the exchange.
That two-way positioning leaves XRP approaching the final days of its strongest month since July 2025, with fresh demand still entering the market, but with large holders increasingly active on both sides of the trade.
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