Charles Schwab expanded its thinkorswim trading platform with round-the-clock cryptocurrency futures access for four major digital assets, according to reporting by U.Today published June 4, 2026. The update activates nearly continuous trading — available nearly 24 hours a day, seven days a week — for select futures contracts across all thinkorswim platforms.
The thinkorswim platform serves millions of retail and self-directed investors. This is one of the first mainstream retail brokerage platforms in the U.S. to offer round-the-clock XRP futures access at scale.
Schwab's entry into digital asset markets has followed a deliberate institutional progression over four years:
The significance of Schwab's expansion extends beyond product availability. Thinkorswim is used primarily by active retail traders and self-directed investors who manage their own portfolios — a demographic that has historically accessed crypto through dedicated exchanges like Coinbase and Kraken, not TradFi brokerage accounts.
Schwab's inclusion of XRP futures alongside Bitcoin and Ethereum as a launch-day asset reflects the shifted regulatory and institutional perception of XRP following the SEC case resolution. As recently as 2024, major brokerages avoided listing XRP due to regulatory uncertainty. Its presence in the Schwab 24/7 launch cohort indicates that uncertainty has been resolved for the purposes of derivatives product approval.
For context on how XRP's institutional infrastructure has developed alongside this brokerage expansion, see our earlier analysis of XRP ETF inflow resilience during June's crypto selloff.
Schwab's move follows similar expansions by other major platforms. Charles Schwab's retail spot trading offering launched in 2026 puts it in direct competition with Robinhood, Coinbase, and Fidelity's digital asset division for retail crypto wallet share. The 24/7 futures addition creates a complementary derivatives layer that most retail-focused platforms don't yet offer at this scale.
The CME Group, which operates the regulated U.S. cryptocurrency futures market that thinkorswim connects to, recorded $2.87 billion in XRP futures volume in the weeks following the CME XRP futures product launch earlier in 2026. Schwab's 24/7 access extends that liquidity pool to a new segment of retail participants.