VanEck said on May 28 it launched VBNB, a U.S. exchange-traded product designed to give direct spot exposure to BNB by holding the token rather than using futures or synthetic structures. The prospectus lists Anchorage Digital Bank as custodian and says staking rewards may be added later, while also flagging Binance-related regulatory sensitivity and a validator set of 21 active validators as key risks.

In December 2025, Ripple received conditional approval from the OCC for a national bank charter tied to plans for Ripple National Trust Bank and RLUSD reserve custody. Some XRP community commentators argue this step, plus Ripple's reported holdings and XRPL infrastructure efforts, could support a $25 XRP scenario, though the implied valuation figures are far larger than prior estimates cited.

Bifrost said it has started repaying a 1,000,000 DOT liquidity loan from the Polkadot treasury after the deployment produced 53,185 DOT in returns. The proposal states the strategy generated yield between May 2025 and May 2026, implying a blended APR of roughly 5.3%. Bifrost is unwinding the DOT-vDOT position, unstaking vDOT, and preparing to send the earned interest back to the treasury.

Grayscale said it is in talks to sell shares of its proposed Hyperliquid Staking ETF in exchange for about 2 million HYPE tokens, valued around $115 million as of Thursday. The prospective investor is listed as Hyper Holdings Global LP, and the filing also updates the fund's name and notes a planned Nasdaq ticker of HYPG.

Ethereum (ETH) fell below $2,000 for the first time in nearly two months, prompting a surge of "buy the dip" chatter that Santiment says can be a bearish signal. ETH was around $1,975 at the time of writing, down nearly 5% in 24 hours and almost 8% over seven days, while CoinGlass data shows about $241 million in ETH liquidations over the past day.

DTCC has selected the Stellar network as a blockchain rail for its tokenized securities initiative, with tokenized Russell 1000 stocks, ETFs, and U.S. Treasuries expected to go live in the first half of 2027. The news helped lift market attention toward XLM after it held the $0.16 resistance level, with traders discussing $0.25 as a potential next target.

Axiom Protocol's XRP-based prediction market is pricing an 18.1% chance that XRP sets a new all-time high in 2026. The odds arrive after XRP peaked at $3.66 last July and, after a $2.41 high in the first week of 2026, slipped into declines and sideways trading. With XRP around $1.28, it is down over 65% from its mid-July 2025 high, implying a rally of more than 186% would be needed to reach a new record.

XRP Ledger’s tokenized real-world assets expanded from about $227 million to over $404 million so far in 2026, a 78% year-to-date increase. Ethereum’s RWA growth over the same period was roughly 35%, while Evernorth data also shows XRPL reached $10 million to $400 million in 15 months versus Ethereum’s 36 months.