World Liberty Financial (WLFI) is drawing ethics scrutiny over a structure that sends 75% of net revenue to DT Marks DEFI LLC, an entity tied to Donald Trump and his family, while shielding them from operational liability. A House Democrats staff report dated November 24 described WLFI as a focal point of alleged self-dealing, alongside claims of at least $890 million collected and tokens valued at $3.8 billion. The project has also been linked to large inflows including Justin Sun's $75 million purchase and a $100 million stablecoin transfer from the UAE-based Aqua 1 Foundation, while WLFI tokens are reported down 50% from all-time highs.

As of April 3, 2026, XRP’s market depth on Binance remains depressed after a sharp pullback in the first half of 2025. The XRP 30-Day Liquidity Index has been pinned near 0.062 since July 2025, while 30-Day Turnover has hovered around $4.46 billion and both metrics are down over 98% from their Dec 2024–Jan 2025 peaks.

Drift Protocol said Friday it initiated onchain outreach to wallets holding Ether linked to an exploit that outside firms estimate at roughly $280 million to $286 million. The team said it sent messages from Ethereum address 0x0934faC to four wallets associated with the exploiter, asking them to contact Drift via Blockscan chat. The outreach followed Thursday onchain messages from an unknown ENS user demanding 1,000 ETH to withhold alleged identity information.

Riot Platforms said it sold 3,778 bitcoin in Q1 2026, generating $289.5 million in net proceeds at an average price of $76,626 per BTC. The company reported producing 1,473 BTC in the quarter and ending with 15,680 BTC on its balance sheet, including 5,802 restricted BTC.

On April 2, 2026, Coinbase and the Linux Foundation launched the X402 Foundation to steward an open-source standard that uses HTTP status code 402 as a built-in payment trigger. The X402 flow lets servers quote a price and accepted tokens, while clients submit a signed payment payload (including stablecoins or other ERC-20 tokens) within normal web/API requests. Early tooling is tied to Base, with Cloudflare's Agents SDK supporting transactions on Base Sepolia using USDC.

Render Network is nearing a governance decision on RNP-023, a proposal to integrate Salad's decentralized subnet and bring roughly 60,000 GPUs into the ecosystem as an exclusive provider. The first voting round ended with 98.86% approval, and the second round is currently in progress. On April 3, 2026, RENDERUSD traded at $1.920 (+2.62%), while network stats show over 71.4 million frames processed and total burns above 1.24 million tokens.

Circle has launched cirBTC, a wrapped Bitcoin token backed 1:1 by native on-chain BTC reserves, with initial deployment on Ethereum mainnet and Circle's Arc blockchain. The company says the design includes real-time on-chain reserve verification and no third-party custodian, positioning cirBTC for DeFi lending and derivatives use alongside USDC and Circle Mint.

On April 2, 2026, Soluna Holdings, Inc. said it closed a $53 million deal to acquire the 150 MW Briscoe Wind Farm in West Texas to supply its Project Dorothy data center infrastructure. The company expects the transaction to be immediately accretive, with year-one Adjusted EBITDA projected at $6 million to $11 million, and said the site supports a planned 300 MW Project Dorothy 3 AI campus expansion.