A major XRP transaction got attention on June 3 after 27.1 million XRP — worth about $60.1 million — was sent to Coinbase from a mystery wallet.
Whale Alert pointed out that the transfer was from an “unknown wallet” to Coinbase. Of course, that set off a lot of speculation. Was a whale getting ready to sell? Was this an outside group moving in?
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The timing made it interesting — the XRP price was quoting at about $2.24 and gaining some upward momentum. Large exchange inflows can sometimes be a sign that the market is about to move, so traders are starting to take notice.
But after taking a closer look, the mystery kind of faded.
It turns out the sending wallet was not unknown at all. It was Coinbase Cold Wallet 188 — one of the exchange’s long-standing storage addresses. The transaction was internal: Coinbase just moved $60 million worth of XRP between two of its own wallets.
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These kinds of transfers are usually tied to balancing liquidity, custody operations or hot wallet funding. There was not a major sell-off, and no whale like a third-party whale made any moves. It was just Coinbase doing some standard backend work.