Mayukha Vadari, senior software program engineer at RippleX, has famous that blockchain firm Ripple doesn’t technically maintain the 38 million XRP in escrow.
On this case, the XRP Ledger itself acts because the escrow agent because the funds are locked in sensible contracts.
“Technically (and legally), the escrow funds are quickly being held by the community, not Ripple,” Vadari defined.
It’s price noting that Ripple can not entry these funds earlier than the unlock time. Therefore, the tokens are underneath the administration of the escrow agent.
This echoes an earlier assertion made by Ripple CTO David Schwartz, who clarified that the funds in an escrow aren’t held by the occasion who put them into escrow.
Earlier this 12 months, Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse acknowledged that the corporate owned greater than $100 billion price of XRP tokens. Nonetheless, possession doesn’t equal management on this case.
In its now-discontinued quarterly markets report, Ripple distinguishes between the tokens that the corporate itself holds and the tokens which can be locked in escrow. Based on its final report, Ripple held roughly 4.9 billion tokens whereas 38 billion tokens remained locked in escrow on the XRP Ledger.
The corporate initially locked 55 billion XRP into escrow to assuage considerations about potential promoting strain stemming from tokens flooding the market.
