XRP's Biggest Advantage Is XRP Escrow, Says Crypto Lawyer

Attorney and $XRP enthusiast Bill Morgan reveals what he thinks is $XRP's biggest strength: its escrow.

Morgan says users only need to understand its escrow to know why $XRP will continue to be a successful asset, with all other amendments and capabilities just adding more value. He added that the escrow set up by Ripple on the $XRP Ledger is a great example of how it was used to stabilize the price and reassure the market that Ripple would act responsibly in distributing its vast holdings of $XRP.

According to XRPScan, 32,444,984,760 $XRP is currently in escrow, with 67,526,296,210 $XRP now in circulating supply.

In a separate post, Morgan highlighted the decline in $XRP escrow as Ripple continues its 1 billion token unlock every month. He noted that about a year ago, the amount of $XRP in escrow was just under 36%.

Currently, it is below 32.5% (out of a total of 99,985,640,485 $XRP available), which is not surprising given that Ripple does not re-lock about 300 million $XRP per month. Morgan predicts that if this trend continues, there will be less than 29% in escrow by next July.

In a recent milestone, nearly a million agent transactions have settled through the $XRP Ledger x402 facilitator.

40% to go for $XRP Ledger fix upgrade

The fixCleanup3_2_0 amendment, which bundles bug fixes affecting Single Asset Vaults, the Lending Protocol, the permissioned DEX, Multi-Purpose Tokens, and permissioned domains, is currently in voting and has reached 40% consensus according to recent XRPScan data. This means that it still needs another 40% to attain the 80% threshold and achieve the majority required to enter the activation period.

Version 3.2.0 of xrpld, a cleanup and maintenance release, introduces the fixCleanup3_2_0 amendment, which is a collection of fixes for various features.

The fixCleanup3_2_0 amendment adds precision and rounding fixes for Single Asset Vaults and the Lending Protocol. It fixes the 'ValidPermissionedDEX' invariant firing on a valid offer deletion, validates non-canonical Multi-Purpose Token amounts, and adds a zero DomainID check for permissioned domains. The amendment also adds the invariant 'AccountRootsDeletedClean,' which checks that a deleted account does not leave any directly accessible artifacts behind.