CoinWorld News reports that, according to U.Today, in the past 24 hours, the RLUSD treasury burn on the XRP Ledger exceeded 59,364,323 RLUSD tokens, and an increase in RLUSD activity is typically seen at the end of the month. Data from the Ripple stablecoin tracker shows that, in the past 24 hours, the total RLUSD burning and minting activity exceeded 118 million RLUSD tokens. XRP validator Vet said that the RLUSD minting/burning pattern remains steady, with issuance activity on the XRP Ledger increasing as the month ends. Vet believes that the end-of-April activity spike has not yet shown up, and that this pattern will coincide with the XRP event scheduled to take place in Las Vegas from April 30 to May 1, 2026.

Just caught up on some interesting moves in the market this week. XRP finally went live on Solana as a wrapped token (wXRP), thanks to LayerZero and Hex Trust making the bridge happen. Pretty cool seeing two major ecosystems connect like this - now XRP holders can tap into Solana's DeFi scene. The integration's been cooking for months, so it's good to see it actually happen. On the institutional side, Bitcoin ETFs are back with some serious momentum. Spot Bitcoin ETFs pulled in nearly $1 billion in weekly inflows - the biggest since January. Friday alone was crazy with $663.9 million flowing in on a single day. Total assets in these ETFs crossed $101 billion by week's end, and trading volumes hit almost $4.8 billion daily. Looks like institutions are rotating back into Bitcoin through regulated vehicles after some uncertainty. Meanwhile, Shiba Inu is showing some interesting on-chain behavior. Exchange outflows just crossed one trillion SHIB threshold - that's a massive amount leaving exchanges in a short timeframe. What's interesting is that while outflows hit around 1.24 trillion SHIB, inflows came in at 1.13 trillion, so there's still more leaving than coming in. This usually signals quiet accumulation rather than panic selling, but the price hasn't really responded yet. Could be worth watching how this plays out.