Binance said institutional trading is increasingly shifting to private liquidity venues, after CEO Richard Teng noted the exchange's OTC desk had already reached 25% of 2025's total OTC volume in the first two months of 2026. Binance's March 20 OTC & Execution Services Insights report also pointed to faster crypto buying via fiat and stablecoins and cited a $105 million WBETH-to-ETH conversion completed within two hours. The report discussed institutional attention to bitcoin's $60,000 level in early February and highlighted a $55,000–$69,000 range following consolidation after spot bitcoin ETF launches in early 2024.

Morgan Stanley has proposed a 0.14% management fee for its spot Bitcoin ETF product MSBT, positioning it 44% cheaper than BlackRock’s IBIT at 0.25%. Data cited in the report shows IBIT at $63 billion in cumulative net inflows and $52 billion in net assets, while overall spot BTC ETFs posted $225 million in outflows on 27 March and BTC slipped to $65K.

Shiba Inu (SHIB) formed a death cross on the one-hour chart this week as a wider crypto sell-off coincided with more than $441 million in overnight liquidations. SHIB fell for three straight days starting March 25 and was last at $0.00000577, down 2.18% in 24 hours after bouncing from $0.00000571. Traders are watching whether SHIB can reclaim the one-hour 50 MA and push toward the one-hour 200 MA at $0.00000596.

Crypto ETFs finished the week under pressure as bitcoin spot ETFs posted $225.48 million in net outflows and ether ETFs extended an eight-day outflow streak with $48.54 million leaving. Trading remained active at $3.39 billion for bitcoin ETFs and $1.16 billion for ether ETFs, while net assets closed at $84.77 billion and $11.52 billion, respectively. Solana ETFs saw a $7.84 million outflow and XRP ETFs recorded no trading activity.

The UK Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office sanctioned Xinbi on March 26, 2026, a Chinese-language crypto guarantee marketplace accused of processing $19.9 billion in illicit crypto flows from 2021 to 2025. The move freezes any UK-linked assets and bans UK banks, crypto firms, and individuals from dealing with the platform, also naming Thet Li, Hu Xiaowei, and Cambodia-based entities tied to the #8 Park scam compound.

TRON's TRX traded near the upper end of its multi-month range after rising 0.85% over the past week, but it also slipped 1.48% over the last 24 hours. On Friday, 27 March, TRX reached a local high of $0.317 and later pulled back, with volume-based signals suggesting a clean breakout may be hard to sustain unless price closes above $0.32.

Coinglass data shows Solana's total futures open interest across exchanges at $5.44 billion (about 65.12 million SOL), returning to levels last seen around April 2025. The pullback follows a peak near $15 billion to $16 billion in mid-September 2025, and SOL was trading at $83.51, down 2.7% over the past 24 hours at the time of writing.

Cardano’s ADA is trading below $0.25 after a weekly decline of 8% while Charles Hoskinson promoted Midnight and its tokenomics. Midnight also secured a £250 million deposit-tokenization arrangement with UK digital bank Monument, as ADA remains in a $0.23–$0.27 range ahead of an April van Rossem hard fork.