Messari: XRP Inflation Rate Five Times Higher Than Bitcoin's

According to data research firm Messari, Ripple's selloff causes inflation to hit 20% - five times that of Bitcoin, inflicting downward price pressure.

Listen to article Data from research firm Messari indicates that Ripple's circulating supply inflation rate is coming up to 20% for the latest financial year.

Highest among the large-cap crypto assets, it is five times that of Bitcoin's.

Messari researcher Florent Moulin shared the information on Twitter stating that Bitcoin is up 20% since last year, but in contrast, XRP is down 47% - alluding to some correlation between their price and circulating supply inflation rates.

"The company has been steadily increasing their sales of XRP over the previous three quarters, likely inflicting downward price pressure on XRP.".

Ripple executives maintain that the continual selling of XRP don't have a tangible effect on the underlying market.

"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."

The inflation rates of other prominent cryptocurrencies like Tezos, Litecoin and Ether are sitting at 13%, 5.1% and 4.7% respectively.

XTZ has increased by almost 180%, but Litecoin has dropped by 63%. The inflation rates calculated by Messari have been queried by the wider community as the circulating supplies vary by up to 50% compared to other popular sites such as Coin360 and CoinMarketCap causing some to even question the legitimacy of their methodology.