Ripple Labs says it is speeding up XRPL integration with Ripple Treasury, positioning the XRP Ledger for a potentially sharp rise in on-chain usage in 2026. Ripple Treasury handled $13 trillion in payments last year and was bought for about $1 billion in October 2025, while RLUSD and XRP are already being adopted to streamline enterprise payments.

The Worldcoin Foundation, linked to Sam Altman’s Worldcoin, sold about 239 million WLD via an over-the-counter deal valued around $65 million, with execution beginning around March 20. The average price was cited near $0.27 per WLD, close to the token’s recent lows, and the placement was reportedly spread across four institutional counterparties with part of proceeds subject to a six-month lock-up. Separately, a vesting schedule highlighted that more than half of WLD’s total supply has yet to enter the market, with a notable unlock dated July 23, 2026.

On April 2, 2026, Coinbase Global (COIN) joined the Linux Foundation to formally establish the x402 Foundation, a nonprofit set up to steward an open-source protocol built around HTTP 402 "Payment Required". The X402 protocol turns the long-unused status code into a machine-readable payment flow that lets websites, APIs, and autonomous AI agents price and settle requests via digital wallets, including stablecoin-based settlement such as USDC.

Arkham Intelligence's April 3, 2026 findings rank Ethereum's largest ETH holders and show Vitalik Buterin is not the biggest individual holder. The ETH2 Beacon Deposit Contract contains over 82 million ETH (about $169 billion), while presale investor Rain Lohmus is listed with 250,000 ETH, and Buterin follows with roughly 224,000 ETH. Among corporate holders, Arkham lists Bitmine at nearly 4.7 million ETH and BlackRock at over three million ETH.

Shiba Inu (SHIB) is trading at $0.00000609, up 6.01% over the past 24 hours, but price remains constrained near the $0.0000060 resistance area. Crypto Patel said SHIB was rejected after reaching $0.00000628 on March 25 and later $0.00000616 on March 30, keeping the 4-hour structure fragile. The analyst pointed to potential downside levels at $0.00000562 and $0.00000523, while exchange net inflows rose 2.5% to 161 billion SHIB within 24 hours and reserves increased to 81.51 trillion SHIB from 81.32 trillion on April 1.

Ethereum traded at $2,060.48 at 12:12 UTC on April 3, with RSI at 48.24 and price still under the 50 SMA at $2,079.21 after a sharp drop from $2,160 to $2,020 following a Trump speech on April 2. CryptoQuant data shows ETH derivatives open interest has fallen to 13.4B and funding rates in 2026 have moved to near-zero and, at times, negative. A weekly channel analysis highlights $2,060 as a key level, with $1,551 and $1,070 as potential supports if it breaks.

Japan’s revised Payment Services Act framework limits “digital-money type stablecoins” to licensed domestic issuers, with rules effective from June 2023 and additional refinements scheduled by June 2026. JPYC Co. launched a fully regulated yen-pegged stablecoin in October 2025 and set targets of 10 trillion yen in circulation over three years and 60 trillion yen within five years. The structure also constrains access to foreign dollar stablecoins, with USDT largely restricted and USDC offered through a limited regulated pathway via SBI VC Trade.

XRP has posted six straight months in the red, marking its longest monthly losing streak since 2014, and has fallen more than 55% since October 2025. The token is hovering around $1.32 and is now being watched for a possible shift in momentum, with $1.38 highlighted as a key resistance level.