Bitcoin ATM totals in the United States declined in Q1 2026, falling from 30,788 on January 1, 2026, to 30,229 on April 1, 2026. The net change equals a drop of 559 machines, or 1.82%, after monthly counts rose through March before slipping sharply by April 1.

Shiba Inu (SHIB) rose 6.01% in the past 24 hours to $0.00000609, moving in step with a modest broader market uptick. Despite the price gain, futures flows and liquidation activity suggest traders remain defensive, while SHIB has largely traded between $0.00000562 and $0.00000644 since March 11, 2026.

Shiba Inu (SHIB) showed signs of stabilizing as netflow turned positive, with SHIB priced at $0.000006018 and a $3.54 billion market cap. Over the past 24 hours, netflow increased 76.9%, with net outflow rising from about $110,000 to about $195,000, while SHIB rebounded from around $0.00000580 and held just above the $0.000006 level.

Drift Protocol said a Solana-based perp DEX was exploited on April 1, 2026, with about $286 million removed in roughly 12 minutes after attackers prepared fake collateral and used pre-signed admin transactions. The incident coincided with TVL falling from about $550 million to under $250 million, while DRIFT slid as much as 37%–42% to around $0.04–$0.05. As of April 3, the protocol had sent an onchain outreach message and had not announced a full reimbursement plan.

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.