World Liberty Financial (WLFI) burned 100 million tokens on May 11 as its token unlock schedule began, with six transfers valued at about $6.68 million. The project's vesting framework includes a 2-year cliff plus a 2-year linear release for presale buyers holding over 17 billion WLFI, while insiders face an immediate 10% burn on 45.2 billion WLFI. WLFI's May rally has cooled from 47% to around 30%, and the market impact of daily unlocks remains uncertain.

XRP-based investment products saw inflows of $39.6 million last week, rising 1,220% from about $3 million the prior week. The weekly jump came as digital asset investment products extended a sixth straight week of net inflows totaling $857.9 million. XRP year-to-date flows reached $191 million, with assets under management at about $2.56 billion.

Solana activated SIMD-0266 (the P-Token Optimized Token Program) on mainnet on May 13, 2026, replacing the SPL Token program with a more efficient version. The update is designed to cut compute unit usage for common token actions by as much as 98% and free about 12% of block space, potentially expanding capacity for DeFi, payments, NFTs, and high-frequency use cases.

Gold-backed tokenized commodities are leading RWA expansion, with XAUT and PAXG responsible for 89.1% of the sector’s growth since 2025. As of May 13, 2026, the two tokens traded around $4,683–$4,684, while their reported contributions to expansion were about $1.87 billion (XAUT) and $1.80 billion (PAXG).

Altcoins are showing renewed strength ahead of a pivotal week that includes the CLARITY Act markup vote and broad price tests at key resistance levels. Data cited by analyst Darkfost indicates that about 21% of Binance-listed altcoins have moved back above the 200-day moving average, up from 2% during February’s low. The market remains challenging, but the shift suggests early rotation into altcoins could be developing.

Forward Industries began its Solana treasury strategy on September 8, 2025, buying and staking SOL, but the position has produced roughly $1 billion in unrealized losses even as it earned about 6.7% staking yield. The company reported a $585.65 million net loss for the quarter ended December 31, 2025, including $560.2 million of unrealized digital-asset losses and a $33 million impairment on its fwdSOL token. Its shares have fallen from $46 on September 12, 2025 to $4.71, while it holds 6,979,967 SOL with SOL priced around $91 versus $206 at launch.

Bermuda is moving parts of its payments and financial services on-chain using the Stellar network, with a May 12, 2026 post from Stellar citing work with the government on a fully on-chain economy. The initiative targets high payment processing costs, as local merchants reportedly pay 3%–5% in card fees, rising to 10% in some jurisdictions. After the announcement, XLM jumped 7% before pulling back from $0.17 to $0.16 at press time, while CoinGlass data showed $348.35K in losses out of a $351.79K total.

On 13 May 2026, Santiment’s 30-day GitHub activity ranking for top RWA projects put ChainLink first with 197.8 and Hedera second with 193.57, while the gap to Stellar in third (72.4) highlighted a steep drop-off. Injective ranked 8th by development at 23.13 but led the group’s 24-hour price moves with a +22.15% gain. The table also showed IOTA at 46.5 development units on a $280.29M market cap, implying higher activity per market-cap dollar than larger peers.