Ethereum

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.

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.

Traders on Polymarket are increasingly pricing in that Ether may lose the crypto market’s No. 2 ranking in 2026, with the contract’s odds rising from 17% at the start of the year to above 59%. Over the past five years, ETH market-cap growth lagged USDT and USDC, while US spot Ethereum ETF AUM fell to $11.76 billion in March from $31.86 billion last October.

BNP Paribas said it will start offering six Exchange-Traded Notes (ETNs) tied to Bitcoin and Ethereum on March 30, 2026, giving eligible retail and private banking clients in France access via standard securities accounts. The bank is also piloting a tokenized money market fund share class on the public Ethereum network and is backing the 12-bank Qivalis consortium targeting a euro-backed stablecoin launch in the second half of 2026.

BlackRock’s spot Bitcoin and Ethereum ETFs recorded combined net withdrawals of roughly $443 million across the March 23–27 period. Bitcoin’s IBIT saw mixed flows that ended with a $201.5 million single-day outflow on March 27, while Ethereum’s ETHA posted uninterrupted selling through the week, totaling about $285.1 million.