Ethereum

On March 26, 2026, Grayscale research head Zach Pandl said digital asset treasuries (DATs) are regaining stability after months of pressure following a reset in crypto-linked equities. He pointed to capital-structure changes, new yield programs such as staking/restaking, and broader diversification as key steps firms used to rebuild confidence. Strategy Inc. remains a bellwether in the group and reported holdings of 762,099 BTC valued at around $50.65 billion.

Lido DAO is reviewing a proposal submitted Friday to spend $20 million worth of treasury assets on a one-time LDO buyback via swapping 10,000 stETH. LDO was reported at $0.30 with a $255 million market cap, down 95.9% from its $7.30 peak in August 2021, while Lido still holds 23.2% of staked Ether on Ethereum.

BNP Paribas Commercial Banking in France is adding six crypto-asset ETNs linked to bitcoin and ethereum to its exchange platform, enabling retail clients to gain price exposure through standard securities accounts. The bank said the rollout starts March 30, 2026, initially covering individual, entrepreneurial, private banking, and Hello bank! clients in France, with a phased expansion to wealth management clients in other markets.

Bitcoin fell below $65,000 and printed an intraday low of $64,785 on Bitstamp, before rebounding to $66,778 by 8:25 p.m. Eastern on Sunday. Over the past 24 hours, 86,277 traders were liquidated for $278 million, including $234 million in longs, with more than $100 million in BTC longs and roughly $85 million in ETH longs wiped out. The broader crypto market slipped 0.58% to $2.28 trillion as U.S. stock futures turned lower and oil rose to $103.

DeFi protocols are redesigning liquidation mechanics to keep value that previously went to external MEV bots, as Ethereum lending markets hold about $2.16 billion in liquidatable positions. Aave says it has recaptured over $16.7 million in MEV on Ethereum via its SVR model and is extending SVR to Arbitrum and Base. Aave’s TVL is near $23.87 billion and its revenue is $6.24 million over 30 days, though the model’s durability is tied to ongoing market activity and volatility.

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.

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.

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.