A dormant Ethereum premine address holding 790 ETH has been reactivated after 10.8 years, moving funds now valued at about 1,782,979 USD. The same holding was worth roughly 244 USD in 2015, highlighting the price change over the period.

NUVA (@NUVAFinance), an RWA marketplace built by Animoca Brands (@animocabrands) and Nuva Labs (@NUVALabs), launched on Ethereum today with $19 billion in tokenized assets sourced from Figure Technologies (@Figure). The debut includes two flagship vaults: one tied to Figure's SEC-registered $YLDS yield stablecoin, and another backed by a pool of home equity lines of credit that has surpassed $16 billion in total funding to date. Nuva Labs CEO Anthony Moro (@anthonymoro111) said the platform aims to address a market gap by creating a "unified global distribution layer for blockchain-native assets."

Charles Schwab has begun granting a limited group of retail customers access to spot trading in bitcoin and ether, allowing them to buy and sell the two largest cryptocurrencies alongside traditional holdings, CoinDesk reported Tuesday. The firm's newly introduced Schwab Crypto accounts enable spot BTC and ETH trading, broadening client access beyond crypto-linked stocks, ETFs and other exchange-traded products (ETPs) previously available on the platform. After completing an internal employee pilot, Schwab this week started rolling out the accounts to a select set of eligible retail clients who joined a waitlist, a company spokesperson told Decrypt. The broker plans to expand access gradually over the coming months. CEO Rick Wust previously told Barron's that marketing for the launch would be phased during the second quarter, with a larger-scale expansion to follow. The long-anticipated debut arrives more than a year after President Donald Trump returned to office and began pursuing more crypto-friendly policies. Schwab had earlier suggested its move into spot trading would hinge on improved regulatory clarity. Schwab has also signaled interest in other crypto-adjacent areas. Last year, Woster said the company aimed to better understand and participate in the growing stablecoin sector, telling analysts on an earnings call, "This is a service we truly hope to offer." In April, the company said it could expand into another growth-oriented category: prediction markets. While not rushing to launch products, Woster told investors, "At some point, we may launch a prediction market," likely focused on financial outcomes rather than sports, pop culture or elections—categories popular on platforms such as Polymarket and Kalshi. Charles Schwab shares (SCHW) rose about 1% Wednesday to around $91.18. Bitcoin and ether were both down more than 1% on the day, near $78,850 and $2,242, respectively.

XRP is back in focus after on-chain data showed large holders continuing to add. Wallets holding at least 10,000 XRP rose to a record 332,230 addresses, the highest count ever recorded on the XRP Ledger, extending a steady uptrend that has been in place since June 2024. Santiment said the 10,000+ XRP wallet cohort has kept growing even as XRP has struggled to regain prior cycle highs. Analysts often track this group as a proxy for positioning among long-term investors, active traders, and larger market participants. The latest figures also point to sustained interest in XRP as blockchain-based payment adoption expands globally. The data shows the number of large wallets has climbed through multiple market pullbacks since mid-2024. In early February, the count briefly fell by more than 4,500 addresses during a broader crypto liquidation event, but the dip was short-lived. Activity rebounded quickly and pushed to new highs, reinforcing the view that many large holders treated the drawdown as a buying window rather than an exit signal. Network fundamentals have also remained supportive, with the XRP Ledger benefiting from low transaction fees and fast settlement. Ripple has continued to expand payment-focused partnerships, keeping XRP in discussions around blockchain infrastructure and cross-border finance. Price action has been more restrained than the wallet data suggests. XRP is trading near $1.45 and has spent much of 2026 below key resistance levels. Charts show a well-defended support zone between $1.29 and $1.35. On the upside, traders are watching resistance near $1.55 and $1.62, while a stronger bullish continuation would likely require a sustained move above $1.78. The gap between rising whale accumulation and softer price performance has become a closely watched XRP theme. Historically, prolonged accumulation by large holders has often preceded stronger price momentum once broader market sentiment turns more constructive.

Moody's has assigned a top-tier AAAmf rating to Fidelity International's first tokenized fund.

Dollar-pegged stablecoins made up 36% of cryptocurrency purchases in Mexico in 2025, overtaking Bitcoin by purchase volume for the first time, according to Bitso's "Crypto Landscape in Latin America 2025" report. Bitcoin still leads as a long-term holding, accounting for 52% of portfolio allocations, and is used mainly as a store of value. Momentum toward stablecoins picked up after the U.S. Financial Crimes Enforcement Network in June 2025 labeled three Mexican banks—CIBanco, Intercam, and Vector Casa de Bolsa—as "primary money laundering concerns," tightening U.S.-dollar trade finance flows. Worldwide, the stablecoin market's capitalization rose 49% in 2025 to $306 billion. Annual transaction volumes hit $33 trillion, nearly twice Visa's.

Consensys, the company behind the MetaMask wallet, has postponed a potential initial public offering until at least this fall, citing weak market conditions. People familiar with the matter said Consensys had been preparing to confidentially submit a draft S-1 to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission in late February. The company has also tapped JPMorgan and Goldman Sachs to lead the process. Crypto markets have remained under pressure since February, leading several digital-asset firms to put IPO plans on hold. Consensys last raised $450 million in a 2022 Series D funding round that valued the company at $7 billion.

HYPE retreated despite a solid first day for the newly launched 21Shares Hyperliquid ETF, underscoring a growing disconnect between ETF-driven visibility and spot demand for the token. Trading under the ticker THYP, the product posted nearly $1.8 million in opening-day volume. The ETF is marketed as physically backed by HYPE, with staking enabled, a 0.30% management fee, and FTSE Russell-backed pricing. Promotional materials also point to Hyperliquid's lean operating model, more than $900 million in profit, and a $35 billion valuation. ETF analyst James Seyffart called the launch "very solid" and above the typical range for new ETF debuts. Price action told a different story. HYPE failed to hold the key $42 resistance area and slid back toward the $39–$40 support band. The latest rejection from the upper supply zone added to selling pressure, while buyers showed limited follow-through at demand levels. Recovery attempts lacked convincing volume, and the RSI broke below its rising trendline after weeks of constructive structure—a shift that suggests the earlier rally is losing momentum. Technically, $40 is the near-term pivot. Immediate support sits around $38.80, with a deeper downside pocket near $35–$36 if weakness accelerates. On the upside, bulls need to reclaim $42 to reopen a credible path toward $46–$47.50. For now, the ETF narrative is gaining headlines faster than sustained buying pressure. A fresh failure near $42 could turn a celebrated debut into a broader correction test over the next sessions for both leveraged traders and spot holders.

Jupiter has launched a new USDe lending market on Solana, plugged into its onchain lending platform, Jupiter Lend, according to CoinMarketCap. The initiative brings together crypto asset manager Bitwise, synthetic dollar issuer Ethena, and lending infrastructure provider Fluid, positioning the venue as an institutional-grade lending market for large pools of capital. Bitwise is acting as curator for the first time, marking the first instance of a traditional asset management firm taking on market curation responsibilities on Jupiter Lend. Under the arrangement, Jupiter supplies the lending platform, Bitwise oversees curation and risk management, Ethena provides the core asset USDe, and Fluid runs the underlying infrastructure. Jupiter said the launch is its first partnership with a major institutional participant and its first integration with an external asset management firm. The company added that the structure is intended to scale over time to support larger volumes of institutional capital. The USDe market is sized at $200 million and is designed as an isolated pool, separate from other Jupiter Lend liquidity layers. The goal is to ring-fence risk so volatility in the USDe market does not spill over into other lending pools. Jupiter also framed the model as a new pathway for traditional financial institutions to participate directly in onchain lending, rather than simply allocating capital to existing DeFi protocols. The collaboration also comes as Ethena adjusts the composition of USDe reserves. Ethena said perpetual futures positions now represent 11% of reserves, with the remainder spread across stablecoin reserves, DeFi lending, institutional lending arrangements, and other strategies. In recent months, Ethena has expanded overcollateralized institutional lending partnerships with Anchorage Digital, Maple Institutional, and Coinbase Asset Management. It has also been exploring tokenized real-world assets, commodity basis trading, and prime brokerage lending structures. Ethena added that it has evaluated gold-related perpetual contract markets, including PAXG and XAUT, as potential additions to its neutral strategy aimed at reducing correlation with the broader crypto market.