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Half a million dollars' worth of<a href="https://u.today/ripple-news" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">Ripple USD</a> just got erased in public, and it did not come from a hacker, a whale dump, or some exchange drama — it came from the token's own treasury.
On Dec. 19, an on-chain transaction that<a href="https://x.com/RL_Tracker/status/2002021295110681026?s=20" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">Ripple Stablecoin Tracker</a> highlighted shows 500,000 RLUSD sent to the<a href="https://u.today/next-major-ethereum-upgrade-revealed-by-developers" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">Ethereum</a> "null" address (0x000) with a successful status on Etherscan. This is a classic burn pattern, which removes tokens from circulation rather than relocating them to another wallet.
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 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 500,000 <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/RLUSD?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">#RLUSD</a> burned at RLUSD Treasury.<a href="https://t.co/3rwraewM4V" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">https://t.co/3rwraewM4V</a>— Ripple Stablecoin Tracker (@RL_Tracker) <a href="https://twitter.com/RL_Tracker/status/2002021295110681026?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">December 19, 2025</a>
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The number is not huge next to RLUSD's current scale, but it is big enough to be noticeable. With a circulating supply of around 1.33B RLUSD and a market cap near $1.33 billion, a 500,000-unit burn is an intentional and auditable supply cut that stands out because it is not just some market noise.
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The timing is also interesting because RLUSD is already trading with real activity for a young stablecoin. The CoinMarketCap dashboard shows about $107.37 million in 24-hour volume, around 6,760 on-chain holders and a #8 slot among stablecoins by market cap.
For comparison, the total valuation of the stablecoin segment right now amounts to $317.48 billion.
Interestingly, this burn happened right after<a href="https://u.today/morning-crypto-report-ripple-ceo-forces-xrp-reality-check-for-coinbase-shiba-inu-shib-soars-5" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">Ripple pushed RLUSD beyond its current rails</a> as the San Francisco company has teamed up with Wormhole to bring the stablecoin to Optimism, Base and Unichain using Wormhole's NTT standard. They are calling it the first wave of layer-2 expansion, with a bigger rollout to come once approvals are in place.<a href="https://u.today/ripple-usd-stablecoin-deletes-500000-from-circulation-in-sudden-on-chain-move" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">Read original article on U.Today</a>

Ripple USD Stablecoin Deletes $500,000 From Circulation in Sudden On-Chain Move

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