In a recent discussion about X, Ripple CTO Emeritus David Schwartz addressed speculation about its large-scale impact. $XRP Burning at that price.
The conversation started when an X user criticized the recent Ripple stock buyback plan and asked them to do something that would benefit them. $XRP holder. Ripple has begun a stock buyback, valuing the company at $50 billion and plans to buy back up to $750 million in stock from investors and employees.
Somewhere in this chart $XLM About half of the supply was burnt out. Where can I find it? pic.twitter.com/WfJ8tG6NSF
— David ‘JoelKatz’ Schwartz (@JoelKatz) March 12, 2026
X users suggested that Ripple burn their content. $XRP Escrow says you can actually make a profit $XRP Better value than the current price of $1.38. Total context $XRP According to xrpscan, the amount in escrow exceeds 33.6 million (33,625,688,696) $XRP.
$XRP The maximum supply of is fixed at 100 billion tokens, all of which were pre-mined at launch in 2012, meaning new tokens cannot be created. Total 33.6 billion $XRP Escrow accounts for about one-third of the total $XRP Maximum supply, so destroying escrow might mean burning a third. $XRP supply. So escrow burning would be huge in this context. But despite being huge, the potential impact may be negligible.
Mr. Schwartz emphasized this point in response to an X user who suggested escrowburn: $XLM As an example.
$XLM Rethinking 50% supply combustion
In November 2019, Stellar Development Foundation (SDF) burned $55 billion $XLM Tokens will account for more than half (or 50%) of the total supply, reduced from 100 billion to 50 billion $XLM. this is, $XRP Escrow (approximately 33% of supply) was to be incinerated.
It’s not even close to that (on the scale of that chart).
— David ‘JoelKatz’ Schwartz (@JoelKatz) March 12, 2026
The reason for the former Ripple CTO’s analogy is as follows. $XRP has always reflected that $XLM price; therefore, compare the effects of large scale burns. $XLM Price may be a good way to guess what will happen at scale. $XRP Burns will occur.
However, the impact of a 50% supply burn is: $XLM Prices were not displayed as they are still being reflected. $XRP Prices over the years.
Schwartz offered this speculation in a question he posed to his X number of followers. “Somewhere on this chart, $XLM About half of the supply was burnt out. Where can I find it? ” The chart he mentioned was $XRP and $XLM price, X users can barely find that point $XLM Burned half of the supply.
Another X user suggested March 2019, to which Schwartz responded that it wasn’t even close, as the massive burn occurred in November of the same year.
According to sources at the time, $XLM After the massive fire, prices briefly rose by 14%. At the current price of $0.16, $XLM It has fallen 82.61% from its all-time high of $0.9381 on January 4, 2018.

