Ripple Concludes 700 Million XRP Escrow Lock for March

As part of its periodic move to consistently manage XRP’s supply, Ripple has completed its escrow distribution for March, locking 700 million XRP as of March 3.

According to data provided by XRPwallets, an X account committed to tracking Ripple and XRP-based transactions, the March escrow distribution process has now concluded.

Following this event, the XRP community is expecting XRPscan to confirm that approximately 33.595 billion XRP are remaining in escrow following the latest March relock. 

As seen in previous months, the move follows Ripple’s regular pattern of unlocking one billion XRP at the start of every month, and later relocking a significant portion of it to maintain predictable supply flows.

As such, the blockchain firm unlocked a total of one billion XRP from its escrow wallet as of March 1, 2026, and has now relocked 700 million XRP earlier today.

XRP reacts with mild price surge 

Ripple has remained committed to consistently reshuffling its XRP escrow wallet as a decisive effort to regulate its supply while positioning its price for a potential upswing.

However, the latest XRP escrow relock is yet to influence the asset’s price action, as XRP has only shown a mild price resurgence over the period.

Over the last day, XRP has only surged 0.42% after trading in deep red territory for the past weeks. With the mild price surge, the asset is trading at $1.34 as of writing time. 

Ripple to relock 700 million in April 

While the escrow activity for March has now completed, the XRP community expects the firm to unlock another one billion XRP by April 1, followed by a 700 million XRP relock.

This will follow Ripple’s consistent relocking of 700 million XRP in January, February and March, as each month all followed the same pattern.

While this tends to bring the total escrow balance to about 33.295 billion XRP by April, there is growing speculation that Ripple may reduce its relock amount to 600 million XRP at some point in 2026.