XRPL transaction volume rose 65% over the past twelve months, increasing from 43 million to 71 million and marking a new record. Evernorth, an XRP-focused digital asset treasury, said the pattern looks steady and business-linked rather than bursty speculative activity, and pointed to institutions such as exchanges and stablecoin activity as key contributors.

High-leverage trader James Wynn recorded another forced closure after Bitcoin moved higher, bringing his total liquidations to six over the past two weeks. Lookonchain said Hyperliquid wallet data shows the latest liquidation occurred around the $68k area, after a series of short attempts failed. The report also noted BTC was trading in the high $69k range at the time of writing.

The IMF says crypto tokenization represents a structural change to financial market "plumbing", warning it could amplify liquidity stress as settlement, margining, and compliance are embedded in code. The report argues that atomic settlement, 24/7 trading, and automated margin calls may accelerate shocks beyond regulators' response speed, while fragmented liquidity across chains can worsen slippage and risk management. It also notes emerging-markets exposure, where large flows of crypto tokens and dollar-pegged stablecoins could undermine local monetary policy tools.

Gold (XAU) and silver (XAG) futures have moved into the top five by trading volume on Binance Futures, soon after Binance launched USDT-settled perpetual contracts for the metals. CryptoQuant said cumulative volume across the metals contracts has already reached the tens of billions of dollars, while BTC and ETH still lead overall futures activity at around the low-$20-billion range and $18.1B, respectively. WuBlockchain also reported that oil perps for CL and BZ logged $760 million and $358 million on April 2, with XAU and XAG together posting $5.58 billion in daily volume.

Bitget Wallet has added Hyperliquid's HIP-3 infrastructure, bringing always-on, permissionless onchain macro markets into its self-custodial "everyday finance" app. Users can trade RWA spot and perpetual markets from one wallet interface, including around 300 equities and ETFs, major indexes, and commodities such as gold, crude oil, and natural gas.

QCP Group published a note assessing quantum-computing risks for crypto after a Google whitepaper dated March 30 argued Bitcoin-style elliptic-curve cryptography could be broken with fewer quantum resources than previously believed. The firm says the issue is a long-term, system-wide challenge tied to public-key infrastructure rather than an immediate market shock, while noting BTC was trading in the high $68k range at the time of writing.

The U.S. Department of Justice charged 10 executives and employees tied to four crypto market-making firms over alleged schemes to artificially inflate trading volume and token prices. The DOJ said three defendants were arrested in Singapore, extradited to the U.S., and made an initial court appearance in Oakland on Monday. Authorities also reported seizing more than $1 million in cryptocurrency, while BTC was trading in the highs $68k at the time of writing.

Google’s Quantum AI team said in a Tuesday whitepaper and blog post that Bitcoin and Ethereum cryptography tied to ECDLP-256 could be broken with fewer than 500,000 physical qubits and about 1,200 logical qubits. The paper also models a live Bitcoin attack that could steal coins mid-transaction in around 9 minutes, implying a 41% chance of beating Bitcoin’s 10-minute block time.

On-chain trackers showed about $324 million in GameStop-linked BTC moving to Coinbase, prompting speculation the retailer had sold its stack. The company's latest 10-K indicates it still has Bitcoin-linked exposure by pledging 4,709 of 4,710 BTC to Coinbase for a covered-call strategy, receiving about $368 million in cash while limiting gains above roughly $105,000–$110,000 per BTC. On paper, the filing shows GameStop now holds 1 BTC directly.