228 mln XRP was sent over the past several hours. The blockchain giant Ripple, which owns over half of the total XRP supply, has sent 74 mln XRP from this sumto an anonymous digital wallet.

The rest of the 228 mln XRP also went to unknown destinations.Meanwhile, a major SCB bankapp in Thailand now sends money viaRippleNet.

The Twitter bot XRPL Monitor has detected a mammoth-sized amount of XRP transferred over the last four hours totaling$38,167,200.

Around one thirdof it 74 mln XRP was sent from Ripples OTC Distribution wallet, as pointed out by Whale Alert, to an unknown destination.

The data from the Bithomp analytical website says that the money went to a BitGo wallet - a major service working with institutional customers andofferingcustodial services to them. Among its clients is the Bitstamp crypto exchange.

As of late, the XRP price has surged to the $0.17 level (as perdata from CoinMarketCap) where it has been holding so far. Investors interest in the third-largest currency hasrecently been growing along with its price.

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A while ago, Ripple wrote on its website that a major partner ofRippleNet in Thailand Siam Commercial Bank (SCB) hadlaunched Ripple-based transactions for his customers. Now, the bank is spreadingthe word about having launchedXRP-based transferson its SCB Easy app.

The banks website states that Ripple-based payments via SCB Easy willtake from a few seconds to a maximum of three days to arrivedirectly to a customer's bank account (depending on the destination country).

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