Research: Inflation rate of XRP was 400% higher than that of Bitcoin over past 12 months

A researcher at Messari recently remarked that the inflation rate of XRP's supply is hundreds of percent higher than that of Bitcoin or Ethereum.

The high inflation rate of XRP's supply compared to Bitcoin.

According to Florent Moulin - part of the research and product team at crypto research firm Messari - his firm's data indicates that the supply of XRP was inflating at a much higher pace than that of other top cryptocurrencies all throughout the past 12 months.

As a pertinent note, Messari is somewhat of a topic of controversy within the XRP community because of how it treats the cryptocurrency in terms of calculating supply and inflation.

"Only 30% of XRP max supply has been distributed, vs 87.5% for BTC. BTC is up 20% since last year, XRP is down 47%.".

XRP circ supply inflation rate is the highest among large-cap assets over the past year, 5 times higher than BTC pre-halving.

Only 30% of XRP max supply has been distributed, vs 87.5% for BTC. BTC is up 20% since last year, XRP is down 47%.https://t.

"The company has been steadily increasing their sales of XRP over the previous three quarters, likely inflicting downward price pressure on XRP. Savvy investors have known this for some time; however, for whatever reason the market is just now picking up the narrative and reacting."

Samani and his fund have been publicly short/bearish XRP for a while now, with the inflation narrative seemingly being one of the core reasons why Mutlicoin Capital is bearish.

After prominent industry investors like Samani brought up the inflation narrative as a reason to be bearish on the altcoin, Brad Garlinghouse, chief executive of Ripple, said to CNN regarding his company's sales of XRP:."In the XRP community, Ripple is the largest owner, and we are the most interested party in the success of the XRP ecosystem. [] Ripple can't control the price of XRP anymore than a whale controls the price of Bitcoin."