Spot Bitcoin ETFs ended March 2026 with their first monthly net inflow of the year, totaling $1.32 billion. January saw $1.61 billion in outflows and February recorded a further $206.52 million exit, breaking a four-month streak of monthly withdrawals. On March 31, the group added $117.63 million, with BlackRock leading daily inflows at about 1,450 BTC worth $98.42 million.

US-based spot XRP ETFs recorded a 96.4% quarter-over-quarter drop in inflows in Q1 2026. The group opened on April 1 with $943.73 million in total net assets and logged $42.52 million of net inflows over the prior three months versus $1.166 billion in Q4 2025. Within the cohort, Canary's XRPC led inflows with $37.46 million, while 21Shares' TOXR saw about $53.2 million in net outflows.

Coinshares started trading on the Nasdaq Stock Market on April 1, 2026, using the ticker CSHR, following a business combination involving Vine Hill Capital Investment Corp. (Nasdaq: VCIC) and the newly formed parent Coinshares PLC. The transaction carried an approximately $1.2 billion pre-money equity value and included a $50 million institutional common equity commitment. Coinshares said the U.S. listing is intended to broaden access to institutional capital, analyst coverage, and support its U.S. product expansion plans.

On April 1, 2026 at 18:36, Franklin Templeton said it agreed to acquire 250 Digital, a liquid crypto investment manager spun out of CoinFund, and place it inside a new division named Franklin Crypto. The transaction is expected to close in Q2 2026 and will be partly paid in BENJI tokens, which represent shares in Franklin Templeton's on-chain U.S. Government Money Fund. After the announcement, Franklin Resources shares rose as much as 1.5% in pre-market trading.

As of Tuesday morning, March 31 (UTC), the crypto market remained cautious, with total market cap near $2.38 trillion and 24-hour trading volume at $95.5 billion. Bitcoin hovered around $67,235 while Ethereum edged up to about $2,050, as traders weighed mixed ETF flows, options-expiry aftereffects, and several event risks including NFP on April 3 and an FTX payout dated March 31.

On April 1, 2026, New Hampshire’s Business Finance Authority said it plans to issue $100 million in taxable Bitcoin-backed bonds, described as the first rated municipal bond secured by cryptocurrency. The deal received a provisional Ba2 rating from Moody’s and uses CleanSpark’s Bitcoin held in BitGo cold storage, with 1.60x initial collateral coverage and a 1.40x loan-to-value trigger for mandatory redemption. The bonds are structured as limited-recourse, with payments sourced solely from collateral proceeds and no taxpayer backing or state guarantee.

CoinShares International Limited started trading on Nasdaq on April 1, 2026 under the ticker CSHR after completing a $1.2 billion SPAC merger with Vine Hill Capital Investment Corp. The transaction created Odysseus Holdings Limited as the new public parent above CoinShares PLC, and the deal had first been disclosed in September 2025.

A senior CFTC official said in remarks delivered on 31 March that insider-trading laws apply to prediction markets and that the agency will step up detection, investigations, and prosecutions. The comments come as total trading volume across platforms including Polymarket and Kalshi reached $75 billion in Q1 2026, versus $330 million in Q1 2024.