Accounts holding 500+ XRP increase 14%, differs from actual holder count

XRP Ledger accounts holding at least 500 XRP rose 14% to roughly 1.44 million from about 1.26 million during a period when XRP traded 64% below its peak closing price, according to a DailyCoin report citing a Cheeky Crypto snapshot. Of the more than 8 million XRP Ledger accounts in the tally, about 4.3 million held fewer than 20 XRP, putting the 500-plus cohort at roughly one in six accounts overall and about one in three once sub-20-XRP accounts are excluded. The shift matters because it suggests accumulation by larger holders even as price remained depressed, though the metric counts accounts rather than verified individual owners, so the same 500-XRP threshold yields different ratios depending on which accounts are included.