Hong Kong has not issued its first stablecoin licences by the previously expected end-of-March target, and the Hong Kong Monetary Authority said the licensing work is still progressing and announcements will come in due course. The HKMA's public register continued to show no licensed stablecoin issuers at the time of writing.

XRP ended the latest month with a close below the Bollinger Bands midline at $1.99, keeping the lower band near $0.62 as the main downside reference. Separately, 900 million DOGE (about $83 million) was withdrawn from Bithumb to unknown wallets within one hour, while Bitcoin entered April holding above $68,000 as traders watch macro and policy events for direction.

XRP slid more than 55% to around $1.35 on April 1 after failing to clear resistance near $3.32, with one analyst arguing the move still fits an ascending-triangle structure on the monthly chart. He says the setup could allow for an additional ~30% decline before a stronger recovery, while longer-term expectations remain focused on a potential bullish leg into 2026.

Alameda Research has unstaked more than 1,695 ETH valued at over $3.56 million, after selling more than $17 million in SOL three weeks earlier. With reported holdings of about $300 million in SOL, $35 million in Bitcoin, and $20 million in USDT, traders are watching for potential near-term sell pressure on Ethereum and Solana. ETH is hovering under a long-standing resistance while SOL is range-bound, with key levels highlighted at $2,100 for ETH and $76 support for SOL.

The Uniswap Foundation said it ended 2025 with $85.8 million in assets and expects its current funding to cover operations into early 2027. It disclosed holdings as of Dec. 31, 2025, including $49.9 million in cash and stablecoins, 15.1 million UNI, and 240 ETH. The group also outlined allocations of about $106.2 million for grants and incentives and $26.3 million for operating costs and employee token awards.

BNB was trading at $614 after a 1.7% gain over 24 hours as it defended a key psychological level. Binance is rolling out a prediction-market feature inside Binance Wallet with third-party providers including Predict.fun, following a March 31, 2026 post cited in the article. Technical levels highlighted include support at $600 and $580, with resistance at $640, $660, and $680.

On April 1, 2026, Zcash was highlighted as seeing shielded transactions reach 59.3% in February 2026, with adoption attributed to wallet-default changes that route users into encrypted pools. The report also pointed to Project Tachyon's post-quantum direction and said Cypherpunk Technologies accumulated over $90M in ZEC, alongside claims that ML-based tracing can link wallet IPs with 95%+ accuracy on transparent chains.

On April 1, 2026, Standard Chartered reiterated its forecast that the stablecoin market cap could reach $2 trillion by end-2028, even as average velocity has risen to six turnovers per month. The bank argues the pickup is being led by USDC-driven activity tied to TradFi payment-rail displacement and early AI-agent payment experiments, while JPMorgan estimates $500B–$600B by 2028.