Coinbase has launched regulated crypto futures trading for Advanced users across 26 European countries, including Germany, France, and the Netherlands, the company said in its official blog. The offering includes perpetual futures with five-year expirations, hourly funding rates, and daily settlement, as well as term futures with monthly or quarterly expirations marked-to-market daily. Tradable contracts span cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin and Solana, plus index futures like the Mag7+Crypto Stock Index, with leverage up to 10x on select contracts and trading fees starting at 0.02%.

Solana has partnered with Alibaba's Shanghai Hongqiao Center to establish the Solana Shanghai Builder Station, a permanent hub for blockchain developers and researchers, with backing from Minhang District government agencies in Shanghai. Located in the core area of the Hongqiao International Open Hub, the station will leverage Alibaba's industrial infrastructure and spatial resources to foster an innovation model linking international technology ecosystems with local industrial platforms. The station is set to officially open on March 20 from 10:00 to 18:00, featuring remarks from Shanghai municipal government representatives and participation from ecosystem projects including Solana Company, Kamino, Chainbase, Magicblock, DoubleZero, Huma Finance, BONK, LIFI, and Neutral Trade. Onsite activities will include giveaways such as the SafePal x Solana co-branded hardware wallet and items from Moonbirds, Orca, PopX, and Perena.

Solana recorded roughly $650 billion in stablecoin volumes in February, surpassing Ethereum and Tron in this metric, Allium data show. On the same network, weekly transfer volumes of Tether's tokenized gold XAUTO exceeded $280 million for the first time, marking a 10-fold increase from the previous week, Token Terminal data show. Token Terminal also reported strong growth in real-world asset holder accounts over the past two years, with Ethereum reaching about 169,000 RWA accounts and Solana 163,100 accounts as of March 2, up sharply from over 35,000 and slightly over 70 respectively on Jan. 1.

A whale trader deposited 7.75 million USDC on Hyperliquid on March 9 to open a 2x leveraged long position in ETH, on-chain data show. The trader previously realized over $11.8 million in gains from multiple transactions.

Decentralized lending protocol Aave recorded about 155,000 monthly active users in February, marking an all-time high and roughly doubling its active user base over the past six months, Odaily Planet Daily reports. As arbitrage yield rates have fallen from 10%–30% to below 4%, fewer low-risk yield opportunities have prompted investors to allocate more capital into DeFi lending, with Aave's total value locked across 20 blockchains now approaching $27 billion, analysts cited by the report said. The governance collective Aave Chan Initiative said last week it would cease operations following transparency disputes with Aave Labs.

Circle and Stripe are expanding into overlapping roles in USDC issuance, payments, and infrastructure. Circle, which minted USDC backed by U.S. dollar reserves and pushed its market cap above $55 billion, launched the Arc L1 blockchain, cross-chain transfer protocol CCTP, and Circle Payments Network in May 2025, where 55 financial institutions have registered and 74 are under review. Stripe, which processed $1.9 trillion in payment volume in 2025, launched the x402 USDC payment feature on Base for AI agents, acquired Bridge for $1.1 billion (supporting its conditional OCC trust bank approval on Feb. 12), co-developed the Tempo L1 settlement chain with Paradigm, and bought wallet provider Privy. Artemis data show USDC handled more than $8.4 trillion in onchain transactions in January out of $10 trillion across all stablecoins, with the broader stablecoin market exceeding $300 billion as both firms seek to control key payment, settlement, and application pathways.

Ethereum spot ETFs posted a combined net inflow of $23.56 million for the week of March 2–6, SoSoValue data show. BlackRock's ETHA led with $133 million in weekly net inflows, bringing its cumulative total to $11.97 billion, while Grayscale's Ethereum Mini Trust (ETH) recorded $84.18 million in weekly inflows and $1.82 billion cumulatively. Fidelity's FETH saw the largest weekly outflow of $218 million but retains $2.29 billion in cumulative inflows. Total net assets across all Ethereum spot ETFs stand at $11.28 billion, representing 4.72% of Ethereum's market cap, with cumulative historical inflows of $11.63 billion.

SOL spot exchange-traded funds recorded a combined net inflow of $24.05 million for the trading week ending March 6, while XRP spot ETFs saw a net outflow of $4.0855 million in the same period, SoSoValue data show. Bitwise's BSOL led SOL products with a weekly net inflow of $33.9499 million, bringing its cumulative historical net inflow to $767 million, followed by Invesco & Galaxy Digital's QSOL with $2.1473 million in weekly net inflows and $3.45 million in total historical net inflows, while Fidelity's FSOL posted the largest net outflow of $10.2586 million despite holding $1.53 billion in cumulative historical net inflows. The aggregate net asset value of all SOL spot ETFs has reached $807 million, representing 1.66% of SOL's total market capitalization, with cumulative historical net inflows across SOL spot ETFs totaling $958 million, according to SoSoValue.

Approximately 36.8 billion XRP are currently held below cost, representing about $50.8 billion in unrealized losses, Glassnode data show. The underwater holdings account for a significant portion of the total XRP supply.