In early 2026, Zcash is undergoing a transition marked by Foundry Digital's launch of an institutional-grade mining pool and a $25 million seed round for the Zcash Open Development Lab. ZEC is trading near $226, with technical indicators such as the MACD and Parabolic SAR hinting at fading bearish momentum and a possible recovery if price clears the $250 resistance. On-chain, more than 30% of all ZEC now sits in shielded pools, signaling rising demand for its privacy features.

Zcash's price rebounded from the $197 support level and has since moved within a narrow $200–$230 corridor, recently changing hands around $226 with a notable daily gain. Derivatives metrics showed a strong pickup in activity, with Futures Netflows climbing 544% to $16.5 million and Open Interest rising to $371 million, while a Long/Short Ratio of 1.23 reflected a tilt toward bullish positioning despite ongoing whale selling below $220.

A forensic review of crypto lobbyist Mauricio Novelli's seized phone uncovered a February 11, 2025 note outlining an alleged $5 million, three-stage payment plan linked to Argentine President Javier Milei's promotion of the Solana-based Libra token. The document and accompanying call logs describe coordination involving Milei, his sister Karina and advisers around the February 14 launch, subsequent price collapse and crisis messaging as wider investigations into the project continue.

Venus Protocol, a decentralized lending and borrowing platform, reported suspicious activity in its Thena (THE) and Cake (CAKE) pools tied to a suspected supply cap exploit exceeding $3.7 million. The attacker allegedly accumulated about 84% of THE’s market cap and then used the tokens as collateral to borrow multiple assets, prompting Venus to pause borrows and withdrawals for THE and some low-liquidity tokens.

Blockchain data from Arkham shows a mid-sized "shark" wallet closed a 14.5 billion SHIB position on Binance at an 83.2% loss. The trade, worth over $508,000 when opened near Shiba Inu's March 2024 peak of $0.00004546, was sold for roughly $86,000 after about two years of inactivity as SHIB trades near $0.00000580.

Analysis covering the 90 days before and after the December 3 Ethereum Fusaka upgrade shows a sharp rise in address poisoning scams and dust transfers, especially in stablecoins. USDT transfers under $0.01 jumped 612% to 29.9 million, while USDC, ETH, and DAI dust activity also climbed, enabling large-scale attacks that have already caused tens of millions of dollars in losses. Researchers say lower fees now allow attackers to bombard high-value wallets with spoofed transactions, and recommend always checking full addresses instead of copying from history.

Evernorth data shows XRP Ledger daily transactions have climbed to almost 3 million in March 2026, roughly three times the around 1 million per day recorded in mid-2025. Average monthly activity rose from about 800,000 transactions in May 2025 to roughly 1.3 million in February 2026, even as XRP's price trades near $1.4 and has yet to mirror the network's usage spike.

On March 12, a user swapped about $50.4 million in aEthUSDT for roughly $36,000 in aEthAAVE via Aave's interface using a CoW Swap-powered widget. Aave later attributed the loss to extreme illiquidity and introduced a new "Aave Shield" protection, while CoW Swap detailed a chain of infrastructure failures and a suspected private mempool leak. On-chain data also shows major MEV extraction from the transaction and has revived questions about Aave's 25-basis-point swap fee flows.