Ripple Sees 48 Percent Surge in Quarterly XRP Sales

Blockchain payments company Ripple on Wednesday revealed that it has sold $251.51 million in XRP in the second quarter of 2019.

According to the Q2 report, the company sold $169.42 million in XRP the previous quarter, which makes a 48 percent jump in sales in the recent quarter.

The company has seen a massive surge in institutional interest as it sold $106.87 million through institutional direct sales – nearly 73 percent increase from $61.9 million the previous quarter. The company also sold $144.64 million worth XRP tokens in programmatic sales.

However, due to inflated sales volume, Ripple temporarily paused programmatic sales and placed limits on institutional sales to evaluate the problem in early Q2.

“Ripple later resumed XRP sales at a rate that was 50% lower versus previous guidance, at 10 basis points of CoinMarketCap reported volumes,” the company stated.

In the quarterly report, the company also explained that it withdrew one billion from escrow each month over the quarter for a total of three billion XRP. Out of the 3 billion XRPs, 2.1 billion tokens were reinvested into escrow contracts, while the rest were used to fund XRP developments via its incubator, Xpring, and RippleNet partnerships.

Cautious with the market demand

The company is also concerned with the malpractices followed by the exchange and stated: “Ripple plans to take a more conservative approach to XRP sales in Q3.”

Ripple is also planning to exit a few over-the-counter (OTC) markets and shift its focus on the markets which need liquidity. However, this move might impact the institutional sales of the San Francisco-baed company.

Earlier this month, Ripple announced that its incubation and investment arm Xpring invested $500 million in various XRP-related projects since its launch in May 2018.