The post XRP ETF Volume Surges to $5.81B as Institutional Demand Meets CLARITY Act & Fed Shock appeared first on Coinpedia Fintech News

Table of contents1. August Changed the ETF Market2. ETF Volume Races Toward $6B3. Early September Flows Stayed Positive4. Cumulative Inflows Reaches $1.71B5. About 1.1B XRP Represented by ETF Holdings6. Wall Street’s XRP ETF Exposure7. September 15: CLARITY Act Vote Fails8. XRP Drops After the Senate Setback9. September 16: FED Raises Rates10. ETF Flows Turn Negative …

The post Solana vs Ethereum: Who Is Winning the On-Chain Race? appeared first on Coinpedia Fintech News

The race for on-chain dominance is entering a new phase as Solana challenges Ethereum across the metrics that drive blockchain value. Ethereum’s dominance in liquidity and DeFi infrastructure is facing growing competition from Solana’s expanding trading activity and user base. While Ethereum continues to anchor the broader on-chain economy, Solana is gaining traction through high-frequency …

The post Crypto Payments Are Going Mainstream: 23,000+ Merchants Now Accept Bitcoin appeared first on Coinpedia Fintech News

Crypto payments have moved beyond a niche use case, with public merchant directories now tracking tens of thousands of businesses that accept digital assets globally. Bitcoin remains the dominant payment cryptocurrency, while Ethereum, Litecoin, Bitcoin Cash, Dogecoin, and stablecoins also maintain a meaningful merchant presence. The U.S. shows particularly strong adoption, driven heavily by consumer …

The post Crypto Liquidity Is Moving – Here’s Where the Money Is Going appeared first on Coinpedia Fintech News

Crypto liquidity is becoming increasingly divided across networks and market sectors. Ethereum and Tron still hold the largest stablecoin reserves, while Solana is leading spot DEX activity and Hyperliquid dominates on-chain perpetual trading. The latest on-chain data shows that the largest stablecoin base does not necessarily translate into the highest trading activity. Solana is generating …

The post Global Crypto Adoption Index: Crypto Has Crossed 1 Billion Users – Here’s Where Adoption Is Exploding appeared first on Coinpedia Fintech News

Table of contentsGlobal Adoption SnapshotRegional Adoption BreakdownOn-Chain Settlement, Financial Velocity & Market StructureStablecoin Metrics & Market ShareMarket Structure (DEX vs. CEX & DeFi TVL)Scalability Infrastructure & Bitcoin Layer-2 MetricsBitcoin Lightning Network ExecutionInstitutional Real-World Asset (RWA) TokenizationTokenized RWA OverviewAccess Model SegmentationTokenized TreasuriesDeveloper Ecosystem & Codebase HealthDeveloper Distribution by Layer-1 EcosystemRemittance Corridors & Global Regulatory FrameworksRemittance Cost …

The post Bitcoin Mining Under Strain as Miners Sell Over 32K BTC in H1 2026 & Difficulty Drops 15.1% appeared first on Coinpedia Fintech News

The fresh Q2 2026 earnings data from the two top Bitcoin miners reveals a critical trend. The industry is in a structured retreat from the asset it was built to mine. MARA sold 23,093 BTC and Riot sold 9,665 BTC in first half of 2026 alone. Together they have liquidated more Bitcoin in six months …

The post XRP Institutional Holdings Report 2026: Corporate, Fund, and Treasury Ownership  appeared first on Coinpedia Fintech News

XRP institutional holdings have expanded through several channels in 2026, including U.S. spot XRP exchange-traded funds (ETFs), corporate treasury structures, Ripple equity exposure and financial infrastructure. As of Aug. 17, 2026, SoSoValue data showed U.S. XRP spot ETFs with approximately $1.51 billion in cumulative net inflows and $934.04 million in total net assets. XRP Insights …

The post XRP Rich List 2026 Crosses 8 Million Accounts, How Much XRP is Needed for the Top 1%? appeared first on Coinpedia Fintech News

The XRP Ledger quietly crossed 8 million funded accounts this year in August, and the number that gets passed around every time this milestone comes up is ‘the top 1% threshold’ talk on the XRP rich list. Right now it sits at 44,771 XRP. That figure gets treated like a fixed target in crypto Twitter …

The post Ethereum Staking Hits 34% of Supply: Why Validator Rewards Are at a 3-Year Low? appeared first on Coinpedia Fintech News

Ethereum staking participation has never been higher and is at an ATH. But beneath the record-setting headline sits a divergence that fundamentally changes the risk profile of staking: yields are at a three year low, the validator count is recovering from a year-long exit spree, and one leveraged accumulator holds enough staked ETH to flood …

The post RWA Market Hits $36 Billion: Why Tokenization Is Transforming Global Finance appeared first on Coinpedia Fintech News

Tokenization has evolved from an experimental blockchain application into one of the fastest-growing segments of digital finance. By converting ownership rights of traditional assets into blockchain-based digital representations, tokenization aims to modernize issuance, settlement, ownership transfer, and post-trade operations across capital markets. According to RWA.xyz, distributed on-chain real-world assets (RWAs) have surpassed approximately $36 billion …