PANews December 2 news, according to Whale Alert monitoring, Ripple has locked a total of 1 billion XRP back to the custody wallet at 2:21 and 2:22 AM today, worth approximately $1.546 billion. Ripple previously stated that it would use the custody account system to provide greater transparency and certainty to the XRP market. The company has locked most of its XRP holdings to prevent market oversupply and price manipulation.