Gnosis and Zisk developers, backed by the Ethereum Foundation, proposed the "Ethereum Economic Zone" to let rollups and mainnet coordinate within a single transaction without bridges. The framework aims to reduce liquidity and infrastructure duplication caused by Ethereum's multi-rollup scaling approach, with technical details and benchmarks expected in the coming weeks.

Johns Hopkins economist Steve Hanke said in a recent interview that the U.S. is losing leverage in the Iran conflict and is "functionally insolvent." He pointed to a sharp drop in Strait of Hormuz throughput, claimed the Iranian rial has risen 6% since the war began, and cited federal figures showing about $6 trillion in assets versus roughly $48 trillion in on-balance-sheet liabilities and around $136 trillion including Social Security and Medicare.

Worldcoin's WLD fell to a new all-time low of $0.24 on March 28, 2026, then traded around $0.27 as World Assets completed $65,000,000 in OTC sales. The deal involved about 239 million tokens at an average price near $0.27, with $25 million of tokens locked for six months and the rest immediately liquid.

Bitcoin has remained below the realized price that excludes inactive supply for two months, leaving $72,500 as near-term resistance and adding pressure on holders. Short-term realized price is at $82.3k, while short-term holders' realized losses have stayed above $300 million per day, including a $372 million loss reported on March 29.

Since the rollout of Bitcoin exchange-traded funds, about $56 billion has entered BTC-focused products, a shift Bitmine CEO Tom Lee says is reshaping how large investors think about preserving wealth. At the Futu Investment Exhibition, Lee challenged gold’s inflation-hedge reputation and said historical data shows gold has lagged inflation roughly 48% of the time over the past 55 years.

Bitcoin remained volatile heading into the weekly close, trading around $66,500 after falling more than 8.5% over the past two weeks and attempting to reclaim $67,000. Michael Saylor promoted Strategy's perpetual preferred shares STRC (Stretch), saying its 30-day volatility was 2% while offering an 11.5% annual dividend yield since March 2026. He also said STRC is being used as a key funding route to buy BTC during pullbacks, with a longer-term goal of reaching 1 million BTC.

A soft outcome in Tuesday's 2-year US Treasury auction suggested investors are growing less comfortable with the outlook as oil rises and inflation worries resurface. The Treasury sold $69 billion of 2-year notes at a 3.936% high yield, while the bid-to-cover ratio slipped to 2.44 from 2.63 in February. The results were read as a sign markets may be dialing back expectations for near-term Federal Reserve rate cuts.

BNP Paribas said it will start offering six exchange-traded notes linked to Bitcoin and Ethereum on March 30. The ETNs are issued by firms including BlackRock, Invesco, WisdomTree, and VanEck, and the bank says the lineup is fully MiFID II compliant while being offered in response to client demand.