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Ripple Reports Uptick in Investor XRP Interest as Sales Triple in Q2

A new report from Ripple suggests institutional investors are increasingly interested in its native cryptocurrency.

By Wolfie Zhao
AccessTimeIconJul 20, 2017 at 3:45 p.m. UTC
Updated Dec 11, 2022 at 1:53 p.m. UTC
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A new report from distributed ledger startup Ripple suggests institutional investors are increasingly interested in its native cryptocurrency, XRP.

According to the San Francisco startup, its licensed subsidiary sold $31 million worth of XRP during Q2 2017https://ripple.com/insights/q2-2017-xrp-markets-report/. The figure was up threefold from Q1https://ripple.com/insights/q1-2017-xrp-markets-report/, when it recorded $6.7 million in sales.

According to the report, $21 million in such purchases came from institutional investors who actively approached the company through Ripple's licensed money service business. The company sold an additional $10.3 million XRP in a more passive way through sales of the asset to fund its operations.

On public exchanges, Ripple also noted an increasing volume of fiat-for-XRP purchases during the same period, again suggesting an increasingly more mainstream audience.

While bitcoin contributed to 85% of total exchange-traded XRP volume in Q1, this number dropped to 63% by the end of June, according to the company.

As of press time, XRP is trading at $0.17, down from $0.40 on May 17, its most recent all-time high.

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