U.S. spot XRP ETFs took in about $25.80 million of net new cash on May 11, marking their biggest daily inflow since Jan. 5, 2026. The products held tokens worth roughly $1.18 billion at the time of publication, while Franklin's XRPZ led the day with $13.62 million in inflows and $286.82 million in assets.

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Chainlink (LINK) saw address interactions jump to 282,170 on May 10, the highest level in eight months, as the market debated whether the spike reflected bots or genuine usage. LINK later traded around $10.440 on May 12, 2026 (06:56 UTC), while separate on-chain signals cited in the report included a nearly $1 billion CCIP-related asset migration and whale wallets adding 32.93 million LINK.

Ethereum accounts for 71.9% of tokenized fund assets as BlackRock advances plans to put new tokenized share classes on the network. The firm filed two SEC submissions tied to its $7 billion Select Treasury Based Liquidity Fund (BSTBL) and a Daily Reinvestment Stablecoin Reserve Vehicle, both designed to use ERC-20 tokens. ETH also traded at $2,312.28 at 06:20 UTC on May 12, 2026, down -2.48% on the week.

USDC activity on Ethereum (ERC20) cooled sharply as the 7-day SMA of active addresses fell from 197,265 on March 21, 2026 to 118,600 on April 23, before recovering to 145,114 by May 8. As of May 12, total ERC20 USDC supply stood at 54.4B and exchange reserves were 14.7B, framing the rebound as partial rather than a return to peak engagement.

Shiba Inu's burn rate surged 710% over the last 24 hours, with 5,678,332 SHIB removed from circulation. The spike was recorded on May 11, when burns climbed from about 700,000 SHIB to more than 5.5 million SHIB in under a day. Over longer windows, burns totaled 23,753,662 SHIB in seven days and 188,168,328 SHIB in 30 days.

Revised language under the CLARITY Act framework has advanced in the Senate Banking Committee, raising attention on how U.S. market-structure rules could classify major tokens such as XRP. Standard Chartered has estimated that if XRP ultimately receives commodity-like treatment, XRP ETFs could draw $4 billion to $8 billion in inflows by the end of the year. That scenario has also refocused interest on where institutional XRP capital could be deployed, including Flare-based XRPFi via FXRP.

The Ethereum Foundation has set a 200 million gas limit floor and finalized EIP-8037 as part of its Glamsterdam upgrade, after previously scheduling the upgrade for June and now expecting it in Q3 2026. It also said Glamsterdam devnets are live, confirmed stabilization of enshrined PBS (ePBS), and announced new Protocol cluster leads: Will Corcoran, Kev Wedderburn, and Fredrik.