Schwab, an investment management company, has decided to add three tokens and remove XRP
Charles Schwab has enabled the use of Solana, Avalanche, and Chainlink through the Schwab Crypto account, expanding its offerings to five asset classes in addition to bitcoin and ether. The company currently manages approximately $13 trillion in customer assets.
11/10/20263 min read
The common point among these five types of assets
Bitcoin and Ether have US-based spot ETFs, CME futures contracts, and the longest legal history among digital assets. Solana, Avalanche, and Chainlink are all subject to spot ETF filings and have established institutional infrastructure around them, with Grayscale's Avalanche Trust's S-1 amendments already filed and similar products pending approval for other asset classes.
The exclusion of XRP is unlikely to be attributed to any single factor, and the most obvious explanation is its litigation history. Ripple spent six years and over $150 million defending itself against allegations that the sale of XRP constituted a securities offering, and while that issue has been settled, a compliance committee at a company the size of Schwab would assess the existence of a settled federal securities lawsuit differently than the absence of such a lawsuit. The asset also has a centralized issuance relationship that the other four asset classes lack, as Ripple holds a very large portion of the supply and issues it on a scheduled basis.
All of that doesn't constitute a ruling that XRP is a security. It's simply a brokerage firm selecting assets with the fewest questions they have to answer.
Why is listing on an exchange different from listing on an ETF?
The distinction most articles often overlook is between exposure and ownership. A spot ETF gives clients price exposure through a security settled on an existing brokerage system, which is why ETFs came first and why every traditional firm achieved that point before it. Offering that asset itself means the firm must handle custody, key management, blockchain settlement, fork and airdrop policies, and the operational issues that come with each.
Schwab building that infrastructure for five assets is a much bigger commitment than listing five ETFs, and that's why the shortlisting is so significant. Each additional asset has its own integration, custody agreement, and set of exceptions, and marginal costs don't decrease much with volume.
The $13 trillion figure in the headline is client assets under management, not capital allocated to cryptocurrency, and the vast majority of that assets will never reach this product. That number really does show the distribution: the number of US retail and advised accounts for which purchasing SOL currently requires no new relationship, no new application, and no transfer of funds to a cryptocurrency-focused location.
Competitive effects
That distribution is the key factor putting pressure on exchanges. Coinbase's retail business relies heavily on being present where the average American buys cryptocurrency, and every traditional brokerage firm that adds spot trading eliminates the reason to maintain a separate account. Fidelity has offered cryptocurrency for years, Robinhood has built a blockchain, and Schwab's entry extends this model to the nation's largest, most conservative retail platform.
What brokerage firms don't offer is asset diversification, staking, access to DeFi, or anything beyond buy and hold. The market is splitting into a mainstream segment, where a select few assets are available through existing financial relationships, and a segment specializing in cryptocurrencies for everything else. Assets on the first list will gain a structured demand channel that competitors lack.
Assessment and Conclusion
Whether Schwab will add staking is a more important question than which token will launch next. Both Solana and Avalanche offer significant staking yields, and a brokerage firm holding SOL without staking would miss out on returns in a way that end customers will eventually realize. Offering this service means accepting the risk of sharp reductions, the time to untie the binding, and the SEC's long-standing and uncomfortable stance on staking as a service, which the Innovation Waiver and Crypto Asset Regulation have begun to address but haven't yet completed.
The inclusion of an asset on this list has become an unspoken hallmark of the organizations, and the list currently has five names. Whoever ranks sixth will also pass through the same committee.
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