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Ripple-issued U.S. dollar stablecoin RLUSD has surpassed the $1 billion mark in total supply on the XRP Ledger. The stablecoin is deployed on the XRPL network to support on-chain payments and liquidity use cases. The supply increase reflects broader adoption of RLUSD within the XRPL ecosystem and marks a notable gain in the XRP Ledger’s stablecoin market share.

Charles Schwab, which oversees $13 TRILLION in assets, is accelerating its push into crypto through its Schwab Crypto offering. The platform has enabled direct Bitcoin and Ethereum trading and said it will list $SOL, avalanche2:native and $LINK. It has also launched 24/7 futures on Bitcoin, Ethereum, Solana and ripple:native, and pledged to support crypto transfers in and out of accounts. The firm is reportedly targeting a mid2027 launch of a service for financial advisors that could open $5.7 TRILLION in managed assets to crypto, and it says one-third of its new clients are Gen Z.

The number of real-world asset (RWA) holders on BNB Chain has surpassed 1.25M, up 440% over the past 30 days, according to RWA.xyz. The data points to a sharp increase in user adoption for RWA-related activity on the network. It also indicates rapid growth in BNB Chain’s on-chain asset tokenization ecosystem.

U.S. President Donald Trump said an agreement has been reached that would give the United States control of about 65B barrels of Venezuela’s oil reserves. He described it as the “biggest oil deal in history.” The announcement provided no detailed terms, including what the United States would pay in return.

Clients of crypto asset manager Bitwise have recently purchased about $15.4 million worth of XRP through the firm’s platform. The buying highlights institutional demand for XRP allocations. The inflows came via compliant asset-management channels, reflecting interest in specific crypto assets among traditional finance clients.

The Solana community has approved a governance proposal aimed at reducing issuance of its native token, SOL. The vote was narrowly decided, highlighting significant divisions within the community over the change. If implemented, the proposal would slow the pace at which new SOL enters the market, reshaping the network’s tokenomics and future inflation profile.

Cryptocurrency ETFs recorded $580 million in net inflows on Thursday, led by $242 million into $BTC and $234 million into $ETH. The figures suggest institutional buyers returned after daily outflows of more than $800 million during the summer. Market sentiment then reversed following Warsh’s speech in Jackson Hole, with major cryptocurrencies falling across the board: Bitcoin slid 3%, Ethereum 2.8%, Solana 4.5% and XRP nearly 5%.

Team-linked wallets associated with the GOLD token project have sold a total of 224.5 million GOLD tokens for about $330,000, according to Blockchain.News. The report said the information was based on its coverage of on-chain activity monitoring. The motivation for the large sale was not specified in the report.

Solana validators approved a proposal to raise SOL’s annual disinflation rate from 15% to 30%. The change is designed to accelerate the reduction in token supply. It is expected to cut new issuance by 18.9 million SOL over the next six years.

Ethereum Layer 2 project Scroll is considering dropping its general-purpose scaling positioning and instead building a privacy-focused Layer 2 network for AI agents, DiarioBitcoin reported. The potential strategic shift is still under internal discussion and no final decision has been made. If implemented, Scroll would move from serving a broad range of decentralized applications to focusing on data privacy for AI agents, which could reshape its technical architecture and tokenomics. Scroll’s native token SCR is already trading, and the market is watching how the possible transition could affect the project’s long-term value.