In 2025, Ripple continued one of the cryptocurrency market’s most scrutinized practices of monthly unlocking of XRP from escrow and the partial relocking of those tokens to manage supply. The system is a programmed supply mechanism designed to balance liquidity, ecosystem needs, and price stability as new tokens enter the market. Notably, XRP has a fixed supply of 100 billion tokens, all pre-mined at launch. To manage circulation, Ripple placed about 55 billion XRP in time-locked escrow, unlocking one billion tokens per month in batches
source: https://finbold.com/heres-how-much-xrp-ripple-has-dumped-in-2025/