Combined trading volume across Binance’s BTC, ETH and XRP USDT spot and perpetual markets reached approximately $64.21 billion on August 21, the highest daily reading since June 5.

Perpetual contracts accounted for $58.4 billion, or roughly 91% of the total, exceeding the combined spot volume of $5.81 billion by about 10 times.

Compared with June 5, perpetual volume increased 9%, while spot activity rose just 1.2%, indicating that the return to higher turnover was concentrated primarily in derivatives.

XRP recorded the strongest acceleration among the three assets.

Its combined spot and perpetual volume climbed to $2.41 billion from $1.11 billion on June 5—an increase of approximately 118%.

XRP perpetual volume rose 127% to $1.8 billion, while spot volume increased nearly 95% to $611 million.

Bitcoin’s combined volume also advanced 15.9% to $38 billion. Ethereum moved in the opposite direction, declining 6.5% to $23.8 billion despite the 8.2% increase in aggregate activity across the three assets.

The data shows a clear return of high trading turnover on Binance, led by perpetual markets .

Written by Amr Taha