{"id":14242,"date":"2026-10-08T19:54:48","date_gmt":"2026-10-08T19:54:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cryptonews.uk.com\/?p=14242"},"modified":"2026-10-08T19:54:48","modified_gmt":"2026-10-08T19:54:48","slug":"why-circulation-does-not-mean-sale-offers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cryptonews.uk.com\/?p=14242","title":{"rendered":"why circulation does not mean sale offers"},"content":{"rendered":"

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For XRP buyers, available supply depends on the price they are willing to pay. The token’s roughly 63.09 billion circulating supply gives the market’s scale; sell orders show the quantities being offered at particular prices.<\/p>\n

XRP Insights, a ledger-data tracker, counted 21.97 billion XRP in exchange-attributed wallets at 08:00 UTC on Oct. 8, across 699 wallets and 24 venues. Those balances include pooled customer assets and cold storage.<\/p>\n

The purchasing question is the size of sell orders at different prices. In an Oct. 8 CoinGecko snapshot, the column labeled \u201c+2% Depth\u201d showed about $2.4 million for Binance XRP\/USDT and $4.0 million for Coinbase XRP\/USD. These provider-reported dollar figures cover two individual trading pairs and change as orders change. Order-book depth records orders across a price range, making price tolerance part of any estimate of buyable XRP.<\/p>\n

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How the supply figures fit together<\/h2>\n

CryptoSlate’s XRP market page displayed approximately 63.09 billion circulating tokens on Oct. 8. XRP Insights’ supply breakdown used a broader figure: 68.59 billion XRP outside Ripple escrow after burns, with 31.40 billion still escrowed.<\/p>\n

The roughly 63 billion to 69 billion span therefore compares definitions. Calling it a range for buyable XRP would give it a meaning neither endpoint measures.<\/p>\n

CoinGecko’s circulation methodology excludes escrow and can also exclude unlocked team or foundation holdings. Starting with a provider’s circulating figure and subtracting those categories again risks counting the same exclusion twice.<\/p>\n

The following measurements include overlapping holdings and cover different parts of XRP’s supply.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Measurement<\/th>\nXRP<\/th>\nData date<\/th>\nScope<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n
Market-reported circulation<\/td>\n63.09 billion<\/td>\nOct. 8<\/td>\nProvider circulation estimate<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Outside Ripple escrow after burns, XRP Insights definition<\/td>\n68.59 billion<\/td>\nOct. 8<\/td>\nBroad non-escrow supply<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Ripple escrow, XRP Insights measurement<\/td>\n31.40 billion<\/td>\nOct. 8<\/td>\nConditional protocol restriction<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Tracked exchange-attributed wallets<\/td>\n21.97 billion<\/td>\nOct. 8<\/td>\nAttributed custody, including reserves<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Bitwise and Franklin issuer snapshots, summed<\/td>\n715.79 million<\/td>\nOct. 6 \/ Oct. 5<\/td>\nBitwise \/ Franklin; two redeemable funds only<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

These rows use different definitions and dates. They cannot be added together or subtracted in sequence to produce a clean float total.<\/p>\n

In its Oct. 8 snapshot, XRP Insights includes 477.4 million XRP of wrapped-token reserves and other funds in exchange balances. Within that, 140.4 million backing cbXRP, a token backed by XRP, also appears under decentralized finance, so subtracting both removes that backing twice.<\/p>\n