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29 May 2026, 16:35
How Many XRP ETFs Does $9T Morgan Stanley Hold? Key Details
Morgan Stanley has disclosed exposure to two XRP-linked exchange-traded funds in its first-quarter 2026 13F filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, according to the filing details cited in market reports. The disclosure shows a limited position, but it places XRP among the digital asset products held by one of Wall Street’s largest wealth managers. The investment bank, which manages more than $9 trillion in client assets, reported holdings in the Volatility Shares XRP ETF and the Grayscale XRP ETF. The filing showed 1,700 shares of the Volatility Shares XRP ETF and 100 shares of the Grayscale XRP ETF, also known by the ticker GXRP. Consequently, the filing adds XRP to the bank’s reported crypto-linked investment positions at a time when institutional interest in digital asset funds has expanded beyond Bitcoin. SEC Filing Shows Two XRP ETF Positions Morgan Stanley’s XRP exposure came through exchange-traded funds rather than direct token holdings. This means the bank disclosed shares in regulated investment products linked to XRP, not an on-chain XRP wallet balance. The Volatility Shares XRP ETF position totaled 1,700 shares, while the Grayscale XRP ETF position totaled 100 shares. The filing did not present these holdings as a large allocation, and the combined position remains modest within Morgan Stanley’s overall portfolio activity. The disclosure comes as XRP ETFs have drawn more attention from institutional investors despite some, like Trump Media, dropping XRP ETF filings. According to data, inflows into U.S. spot XRP ETFs during May 2026 included a reported $25.8 million single-day inflow on May 11 and $60.5 million across the week of May 11 to May 15. XRP ETF products were also reported to have reached $1.37 billion in cumulative inflows since their November 2025 launch. Those figures placed XRP ETFs behind Bitcoin and Ethereum ETFs among crypto fund categories. Morgan Stanley Expands Crypto Product Access Morgan Stanley’s XRP ETF disclosure fits within a broader shift in the bank’s digital asset strategy. The firm has moved from offering access to outside crypto products toward building more direct crypto services across retail and institutional channels. The bank has rolled out retail cryptocurrency trading through its E*Trade platform, supporting Bitcoin, Ethereum and Solana. The service uses Zero Hash for liquidity and custody infrastructure, according to the details provided. Morgan Stanley has also moved into branded crypto funds. Reported products include the Morgan Stanley Bitcoin Trust, along with filings for spot Ethereum and Solana trusts. The Ethereum product includes an automated staking yield mechanism, according to the described registration plans. The firm’s digital asset strategy team has also been linked to work on an institutional and high-net-worth digital wallet. That wallet is expected to focus on custody and settlement for tokenized real-world assets, including private equity, bonds and real estate. Is XRP ETF Accumulation on a Spree? XRP-related investment activity has continued to draw attention while the token’s price has remained largely rangebound. The latest Morgan Stanley disclosure adds to a broader set of institutional data points, including ETF inflows, large-wallet accumulation, and Ripple’s continued expansion of services built for financial institutions. ETF demand has been one of the main areas watched by market participants. Reports cited $25.8 million in spot XRP ETF inflows on May 11, the largest single-day inflow since January 5. For the week of May 11 to May 15, U.S. spot XRP ETFs attracted $60.5 million, marking their strongest week of 2026. Since launching in November 2025, cumulative inflows into XRP ETFs have been reported at $1.37 billion. Standard Chartered’s XRP ETF inflow forecast has also remained part of the market discussion. According to Jake Claver, the bank still carries a $4 billion to $8 billion XRP ETF inflow target for 2026, depending on the passage of the CLARITY Act. Source: X On-chain activity has also shown growth among larger XRP holders. According to data, 332,230 wallets were holding at least 10,000 XRP as of May 12, which is a record level. At the same time, wallets holding 1 million XRP or more have reportedly added 42 new addresses since the start of 2026, while that group accumulated 1.2 billion XRP during the first quarter. Ripple’s corporate activity has added another layer to institutional interest in XRP-linked infrastructure. The company completed its $1.25 billion acquisition of prime brokerage Hidden Road, expanding its reach into institutional trading and settlement services. Concurrently, Ripple has also been highlighted in connection with DTCC and NSCC broker directory listings, placing parts of its expanded business closer to traditional market infrastructure.
29 May 2026, 15:39
Bitcoin Slips Toward $74K as Texas Seats Reserve Committee, CFTC Greenlights Kalshi BTC Perps, ETFs Bleed $2.84B
Bitcoin News Texas has formally seated its Strategic Bitcoin Reserve Advisory Committee, with Acting Comptroller Kelly Hancock naming four external members on Thursday to guide one of the first sta...
29 May 2026, 14:43
Coinbase's futures commission merchant to offer access to global crypto perpetual futures and options
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29 May 2026, 14:30
Whale's Insight: Crypto Trades Stocks, Banks Issue Stablecoins - Why CRCL Fell 30%
Summary Circle's regulatory moat is collapsing. SoFi launched a national-bank stablecoin on May 27, joining JPMorgan, Mastercard/BVNK and Tether USAT on the GENIUS Act lane in four months. Spot Bitcoin ETFs posted nine consecutive sessions of net outflows through May 28, with over $2B redeemed since May 14, effectively erasing 2026's net inflow ledger. Tokenized stock perps are becoming a real US equity venue. Daily volume hit a $3.57B ATH in May, the same week the SEC published an innovation exemption. The line between Wall Street and crypto is dissolving. Every major US distribution player has moved into regulated stablecoin issuance in four months, collapsing Circle's moat and sending CRCL down 30%. Meanwhile, tokenized US stocks just hit a $3.57B daily volume ATH. As TradFi moves onto crypto rails and crypto trades stocks 24/7, the trades that defined this cycle are being repriced in real time. Circle's Fall and the End of the Regulatory Moat Circle Internet Group ( CRCL ) slid from its May high near $140 to an intraday low of $98 on May 28, with the three-week peak-to-trough drawdown reaching about 30%. The stock now sits more than 67% below its $298 post-IPO peak. Over the same window, BTC broke below 73K on May 28 after Middle East ceasefire negotiations were declared to have collapsed, and short interest in CRCL has expanded sharply over the past twelve months. High-beta exposure, structural supply overhang, and a specific external catalyst combined to produce one of the sharpest sell-offs in any major crypto-linked equity this quarter. The proximate catalyst arrived on May 27, when SoFi launched SoFiUSD, described as the first stablecoin issued by a U.S. national bank under the GENIUS Act framework. Other major distribution players have been moving in the same direction. JPMorgan's JPMD is live and scaling in corporate stablecoin settlement Mastercard ( MA ) agreed to acquire stablecoin infrastructure firm BVNK for up to $1.8 billion, the largest stablecoin acquisition on record Tether ( USDT-USD ) launched USAT in January, targeting the regulated U.S. market that USDC has historically owned Every major distribution channel in traditional finance is moving into stablecoin issuance, and they are doing so on the regulatory pathway that the GENIUS Act explicitly created for banks. This is the part of the story that matters for repricing. Through most of 2025, CRCL traded as the "regulated stablecoin winner," with compliance scarcity baked into the multiple. The GENIUS Act, signed last July, was widely interpreted as the final validation of that thesis. What the past two weeks make clear is the opposite. The regulatory moat was a function of regulatory ambiguity. Once the framework is codified, every bank, fintech, and payments network with an existing distribution base can credibly issue a compliant dollar stablecoin. The distribution gap is where Circle's structural disadvantage becomes visible. The asymmetry is the underlying mechanic behind the Q1 margin compression that triggered the Compass Point Sell rating in April. Circle pays a distribution tax that the bank-issued cohort simply does not have. The Three Variables Worth Tracking First, the rate cycle drives roughly 90% of revenue. USDC reserves sit roughly 80% in short-dated US Treasuries and 20% in cash, managed by BlackRock. Reserve income contributed $653M of $694M in Q1, about 94% of total revenue, which makes CRCL a near-pure leveraged play on short-end yields. Source: circle.com/transparency Short-end yields have trended higher over the past month as inflation prints stay sticky and the market trims near-term cut expectations. The 2Y closed at 4.13% on May 22, the highest level in roughly a year, before easing to 4.01% by May 26. This is the constructive direction for Circle. The federal funds rate path is the other half. New Fed chair Kevin Warsh is a fresh source of uncertainty. A hold-or-hike stance supports Circle's reserve margin, while White House pressure for cuts pulls the other way. Markets are pricing roughly a 50% probability of a rate hike by December. Both outcomes move CRCL earnings power meaningfully. The June 16-17 FOMC, Warsh's first as chair, warrants close attention. Second, the competitive set is still widening. SoFi, JPMorgan, Mastercard, and Tether's USAT all entered the regulated US market in the past four months. USDC circulation held up so far, growing 28% YoY to $77B and roughly flat sequentially despite a 45% drawdown in digital asset markets. The next wave of bank launches, particularly regional banks on the GENIUS Act bank-pathway, is the variable to watch. Third, CLARITY Act is the largest binary catalyst. The bill cleared Senate Banking 15-9 on May 14, with a full Senate vote targeted before August. The text restricts stablecoin yield products and codifies the SEC-CFTC jurisdictional split. This cuts both ways for Circle. Stricter yield rules constrain bank competitors but also limit USYC-style expansion. The final yield language is the single highest-impact regulatory event on the calendar. Beyond these, the bull case rests on Circle diversifying away from pure reserve income. USYC tokenized Treasury product expanded to $3B as of early May 2026, the largest tokenized Treasury fund, ahead of BlackRock's BUIDL Arc network , institutional L1, $222M token presale completed (a16z crypto lead at $75M, BlackRock / Apollo / ARK / ICE participating), mainnet ahead Circle Payments Network , annualized volume $8.3B at Q1, approaching $10B by early May Agent Stack for AI-driven payments, where USDC already handles 99.8% of x402-protocol transactions If these scale, CRCL de-couples from rates and the bank overhang. If not, it remains a leveraged bet on short-end yields plus distribution share. ETF Outflow Streak Deepens US spot Bitcoin ETFs have now posted 9 consecutive sessions of net outflows through May 28, with cumulative redemptions exceeding $2 billion since May 14. The May 27 print of −$733.4M was the largest single-day outflow since February , with BlackRock's IBIT alone shedding $527.8M, its second-largest daily outflow since launch in 2024. The cumulative damage has effectively erased 2026's net inflow ledger. Through May 22, year-to-date net inflows stood at $536M. The subsequent outflows have wiped that buffer and pushed the 2026 spot Bitcoin ETF complex to the verge of net-negative territory for the year. For context, the most comparable recent window is mid-January to early February 2026 . That stretch saw concentrated daily redemptions trigger the worst week of the year at the time. The full drawdown extended into early February, with BTC tumbling from around $95K on January 14 to roughly $63K on February 5, a peak-to-trough decline of about 33%. The current move has so far gone from $82K in early May to below $73K, about −11%. If the ETF channel keeps bleeding and the pattern repeats without offsetting factors, a comparable 33% drawdown from the early-May peak would imply BTC near $55K. DEXs Are Becoming a Shadow Equity Venue As the US equity and TradFi narrative spreads through crypto, decentralized exchanges are rapidly becoming a real venue for trading US stocks: Tokenized stocks just hit an all-time high daily volume of $3.57B on May 18, with the sector's combined market cap reaching $1.4B across roughly 2,246 tokenized assets, up nearly 30% in the last 30 days alone. On Hyperliquid, 23 of the top 30 trading pairs are tokenized stocks and commodities , not crypto. HIP-3 aggregate open interest reached $2.6B by May 18 , doubling in roughly two months. Three structural advantages explain why flow is routing into tokenized equity perps: First, 24/7 access . US equity markets are closed roughly a third of the calendar year. Tokenized perps trade continuously, with after-hours activity reported above 20% of total volume on some assets, meaningful price discovery happening outside Wall Street hours. Second, higher leverage flexibility . Tokenized equity perps typically offer up to 10–40x leverage, giving traders more flexibility to size positions and structure short-term strategies that traditional equity products do not accommodate. Third, collateral composability . The same USDC sitting in a user's crypto account can serve as margin across crypto perps and tokenized equity perps. For example, a trader holding USDC on a single venue can open a TSLA or NVDA perp without converting back to fiat or routing through a brokerage account. Traditional brokerages cannot offer that. "Crypto trading venue" and "venue for everything else" are no longer separate categories. As regulatory clarity advances, with the SEC's innovation exemption for tokenized stocks and rising acceptance of tokenized assets among traditional institutions, the venues that can offer crypto perps, tokenized equity perps, commodities, and pre-IPO exposure within a single account will define the next phase of competition. Week Ahead Ongoing: U.S.–Middle East geopolitical tensions and energy supply risk Jun 1: U.S. ISM Manufacturing Index (May) Jun 5: U.S. Non-Farm Payrolls (May) Geopolitical risk remains the dominant background variable. This week's breakdown in negotiations pushed BTC below 73K, while elevated crude continues to feed into inflation expectations, complicating the rate path for the Fed and keeping risk appetite on a short leash. U.S. Non-Farm Payrolls is the last major labor print ahead of the June 16–17 FOMC. With markets pricing limited near-term cuts, a weaker number could reopen dovish repricing and compress real yields; a strong beat reinforces the higher-for-longer narrative and pressures duration-sensitive positioning. Disclaimer: The information provided herein does not constitute investment advice, financial advice, trading advice, or any other sort of advice, and should not be treated as such. All content set out above is for informational purposes only. Original Post
29 May 2026, 14:12
Bitcoin sinks to 13th place as value dips to $1.45T
🚨 $BTC slipped to 13th place globally as market value fell to $1.45 trillion. Big drops in price pushed capital into tech stocks and gold. Continue Reading: Bitcoin sinks to 13th place as value dips to $1.45T The post Bitcoin sinks to 13th place as value dips to $1.45T appeared first on COINTURK NEWS .
29 May 2026, 13:54
BlackRock Outflows Trigger 'Golden Era' for Bitcoin
Bloomberg analyst explains why falling Bitcoin ETF volatility matters more than millions in outflows from BlackRock and how it brings crypto closer to gold.
