As of March 29, 2026, 5 p.m. ET, the Pentagon has surged more than 50,000 U.S. troops across the Middle East while drafting contingency options for limited ground raids inside Iran, but no U.S. forces have entered Iranian territory. Polymarket's "US forces enter Iran by?" market shows $49.6 million in volume, with odds at 71% for entry by April 30 and 78% by Dec. 31, 2026.

Coin ATM Radar data dated March 29, 2026, shows the global crypto ATM fleet at 38,928 units after a 597 net decline in 2026 to date. The U.S. leads with 30,247 machines (77.7%), followed by Canada at 3,839 (9.9%) and Europe at 1,727 (4.4%). Bitcoin Depot remains the largest operator with 9,246 ATMs, while bitcoin is supported on nearly all machines and ethereum is listed at 22,200 locations.

Celestia (TIA) is under growing bearish pressure as supply rises and market positioning weakens, despite a 1.3% dip over the past 24 hours. A token unlock scheduled for March 29 is expected to add roughly $85,000 worth of TIA (0.032% of circulating supply) to the market, while spot and derivatives data point to increasing downside bias.

Lido’s Ecosystem Operations team has put forward a governance proposal to let the Lido Growth Committee spend up to 10,000 stETH (about $20 million at roughly $2,000 ETH) to purchase LDO as a one-off buyback. LDO set a new all-time low near $0.27 on Mar. 7 and is trading around $0.31; at current levels, the plan could take in roughly 65 million tokens, or about 8% of circulating supply.

Shiba Inu (SHIB) was range-bound on Wednesday, while the Shibarium team said the Layer-2 network has exceeded 270 million wallet addresses after recent infrastructure work. The team also said the explorer is being rebuilt and currently shows only a partial view, with 2.4 million blocks and about 168 million transactions displayed versus more than 14 million blocks and over 1.56 billion transactions on-chain. At press time, SHIB traded at $0.000005776, down 2.86% over the past 24 hours.

Lido DAO approved a $60 million operating budget for 2026 and set a three-year plan to expand beyond liquid staking into yield vaults, institutional wrappers, and "real-business DeFi." The strategy follows staking yield compression, with base APRs cited at 3–5%, and includes Ethereum mainnet launches such as Lido V3 stVaults (Jan. 30, 2026) plus Lido Earn products EarnETH and EarnUSD.

Anchorage Digital announced on March 26, 2026 that it will support TRON, beginning with institutional custody for TRX and later expanding to TRC-20 tokens and staking. As of March 29, 2026, TRX is trading around $0.3178, with analysts watching resistance at $0.33–$0.35 and support between $0.265 and $0.28.

Over the past week, Bitcoin fell 3% and the total altcoin market cap slipped 1.52%, leaving most large-cap tokens in the red. Bittensor (TAO) led gainers after breaking above $302 and rallying from $261.1 to $377.8, while Memecore jumped 33% and Canton (CC) spiked 13.47% in 12 hours on March 28. On the downside, Worldcoin (WLD) dropped 12.5% for the week as Polkadot (DOT), Aave, and NEAR extended their declines.