Drift Protocol said $285 million was drained from three Solana vaults in about 12 minutes on April 1, 2026, triggering a sharp drop in TVL and a more than 40% fall in the DRIFT token. The attacker then routed roughly $232 million via Circle's CCTP bridge from Solana to Ethereum over 100+ transactions across a six-hour window, prompting ZachXBT to publicly question Circle's response.

Dogecoin (DOGE) traded around $0.091 after rising 0.95% in the past 24 hours, while volume fell 23% to $543 million. Since March 31, 2026, whales have accumulated more than 500 million DOGE as price ranged between $0.087 and $0.101. Traders are watching $0.095 for a bullish daily close and $0.08821 as a key support level.

Dogecoin's official X account used humor on April 4, 2026, posting "The Doge does not concern himself with the Bear" amid a market lull. DOGE has been trading below the daily moving average 50 at $0.094 and has ranged between $0.087 and $0.10, with bears eyeing $0.079 if $0.087 breaks and bulls looking toward $0.10 and $0.12 if price reclaims MA 50.

Cardano (ADA) saw heightened whale-driven activity over the past week even as the token fell about 8%. Data cited from Santiment shows large holders accumulated roughly 220 million ADA during the same period, while separate commentary pointed to some ADA being rotated into NIGHT. ADA was priced at $0.2407 at press time, down 1.19% over the last 24 hours.

Global X Management Company launched the Global X Ethereum Covered Call ETF (EHCC) on April 2, 2026, aiming to make weekly income distributions by selling call options on Ether-related ETPs. The actively managed fund charges a 0.75% expense ratio and invests at least 80% of net assets in U.S.-listed spot and futures Ether ETPs, without holding ETH directly.

The Cardano Foundation's 2025 Activity and Financial Insights Report shows its treasury reduced ADA exposure from 76.7% to 51.6%, while Bitcoin and cash rose to nearly 49%. The total treasury value fell 45% year over year to about $361 million, alongside $29.7 million spent on grants, DeFi efforts, and governance work. On April 4, 2026, ADA traded at $0.24403 and ADABTC at 0.00000365, with indicators pointing to ongoing bearish pressure despite oversold readings.

Vitalik Buterin sold about 17,196 ETH in 2026 under a pre-announced framework, with transactions split into smaller batches to keep activity visible on-chain. In the same period, Ethereum's largest holder was the ETH2 Beacon Deposit Contract, which held more than 62 million ETH and represented validator deposits securing the network. Exchange and institutional wallets also ranked among the biggest pooled holders, while Buterin was still listed at about 224,000 ETH.

RippleX engineer Mayukha Vadari said XRPL core work is currently centered on stabilization and bug fixes, which may slow feedback and increase merge conflicts as changes continue. She added that developers do not need to update their branches for every change and can move at a slower cadence. XRPL developers are also rebuilding repository fundamentals across six areas, including telemetry, nomenclature, type safety, refactoring, logging and documentation.