Ripple plans to build native lending infrastructure on the XRP Ledger via the XLS-65 Single Asset Vaults and XLS-66 Lending Protocol amendments. The effort is designed to connect XRPL to a tokenized private credit market valued at above $10 billion. Ripple says the system would help real-world businesses access working capital through regulated institutional lending markets.

U.S. spot Bitcoin ETFs logged more than $1 billion in net inflows over three straight days, led by BlackRock’s iShares Bitcoin Trust with $588.5 million since Monday. The iShares fund took in more than $500 million on Wednesday alone. Bitcoin climbed alongside the inflows, hitting $72,659 on Thursday and rising about 10% over 24 hours.

CoreWeave said it has signed a multibillion-dollar, multiyear agreement with Hudson River Trading that expands a partnership that began in March 2026. The deal gives the trading firm access to Nvidia’s Vera Rubin and B200 systems as Wall Street demand for advanced AI computing rises. CoreWeave also said Jane Street agreed to spend $6 billion on data center capacity and invested another $1 billion in the company. CoreWeave shares fell about 1.4% in premarket trading Thursday, while its top three customers still accounted for about 72% of revenue.

Walmart reported U.S. comparable store sales growth of just 2.6%, its weakest performance in nearly six years, even as it received $2.9 billion in tariff refunds and posted quarterly net income of $6.4 billion. Rising fuel costs are squeezing household budgets and weighing on consumer spending. The retailer carried out 11,000 temporary price reductions in the second quarter as shopping conditions softened.