Ripple: Jed McCaleb Finally Completes His Eight-Year XRP Sell-Off

Ripple Labs co-founder Jed McCaleb has just 46.7 XRP left in his wallet, ending his eight-year marathon XRP sell-off.

 

XRP Scan shows the former Ripple Labs founder’s “Tacostand” wallet has only $16 worth of XRP left at the time of writing.

 

Former Ripple founder Jed McCaleb has finally completed the eight-year sell-off of his Ripple (XRP) holdings, leaving only 46.7 XRP left sitting in his famed “tacostand” wallet.

 

According to blockchain explorer XRP Scan, the former Ripple founder executed his last outgoing XRP transfer of 1.1 million XRP, worth $394,742.18, at 6:31 am UTC on Sunday.

 

Hours later, the account listed an “ACCOUNT DELETE” transaction, meaning the account will no longer exist on XRP’s ledger.

 

The transaction marks the end of a 9 billion XRP sell-off initiated by McCaleb after leaving Ripple Labs to co-found rival payment protocol Stellar in 2014.

 

The amount McCaleb has released over the last eight years represents around 18.6% of the total circulating supply of XRP and has been taken as welcome news by the crypto community.

 

XRP proponent XRP whale proclaimed to their 57,500 followers on Twitter that with the final sell-off, one can finally own more XRP than McCaleb.

 

On Friday, a satirical article from The Crypto Town Crier led some to believe that McCaleb decided to hold onto his last five million XRP “just in case it moons.”

 

“McCaleb, who has sold multiple billions of XRP since leaving Ripple in 2014, said he woke up in a cold sweat Thursday night and realized he just couldn’t let the last of his holdings go,” wrote the authors behind the satire piece.

 

The Crypto Town Crier is a satirical news site with the tagline “Where truth matters more than accuracy.”

 

The price of XRP is currently sitting at 0.3564, up 0.82% over the last 24 hours. The asset is down almost 90% from its January 2018 all-time high of $3.40.

 

Ripple Labs has been embroiled in a lawsuit filed by the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) since late 2020, with the latter alleging Ripple and its executives had offered XRP as unlicensed security to investors.

 

The SEC took a hit in its case against Ripple last week after a U.S. judge ruled that the SEC must produce internal documents related to the “Hinman speech,” which could be key evidence to support Ripple’s defense.

 

If Ripple successfully argues that XRP is not a security, some believe the ruling could set a precedent for other similar crypto token issuers, while increasing XRP prices.

 

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