Ethereum

Midnight (NIGHT) has cooled into the $0.04-$0.05 zone after a launch rally toward $0.10-$0.11 and is now pressing its first major resistance band at $0.053-$0.055. Shiba Inu (SHIB) is forming a tightening range that could enable a roughly 16% squeeze toward $0.0000068-$0.0000070 if it breaks above nearby resistance. Ethereum (ETH) is nearing a "mini-death cross" in short-term averages, with a potential retest of $1,800-$1,900 if rising support fails.

Ethereum (ETH) is showing continued selling pressure on charts even as a large share of supply stays illiquid through staking. Nearly 3 million ETH is reportedly queued to be staked with an entry wait of about 50 days, while the exit queue is close to empty. Total staked supply has surpassed 38 million ETH—over 31% of total supply—alongside estimates of $1.1 billion in leveraged longs versus roughly $4.22 billion in shorts.

Mercado Libre will end Mercado Coin, a Brazil-launched crypto loyalty token used for cashback rewards, with the program set to stop on April 17, 2026. From that date, users will no longer be able to buy, sell, or earn the token, and any unspent balance will be automatically converted into local fiat and credited to Mercado Pago accounts.

U.S. equities jumped Tuesday after reports suggested President Trump may be willing to end U.S. military operations in Iran, while Iran also indicated openness to talks under certain demands. The S&P 500 rose about 2.4% to near 6,496 and the Nasdaq gained roughly 3.3% to around 21,475, with about 77% of stocks advancing. Bitcoin climbed about 1.9% to approximately $67,798 and Ethereum rose roughly 3.9% to around $2,096 as broader risk appetite improved.

Google updated its post-quantum guidance on March 25, setting a 2029 target for full cryptography migration. On March 31, its Quantum and AI team published research suggesting elliptic-curve schemes could be broken with 20x fewer quantum resources than earlier estimates, raising urgency for wallet and signature security.

Crypto markets moved higher on March 31, 2026 after Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian said Tehran is prepared to end the war if binding security guarantees and compensation are provided. Bitcoin rose 1.4% to $68,034, while Ethereum gained 2% to $2,109 and Solana climbed 2.3% to $83, with HYPE up 2.7% to $37. The rally unfolded as investors waited for any official response from Washington.

On March 31, 2026 at 19:32, Ethereum hovered near $2,000 as a newly created wallet opened a −9,887 ETH short worth about $20M on HyperLiquid with 20× leverage. At the same time, spot-market taker buy pressure tracked across exchanges was trending higher, while a negative 30-day Sharpe-like reading pointed to weak risk-adjusted returns. The mix of a large bearish derivatives bet and improving spot-demand signals leaves ETH's near-term direction unclear.

SWIFT says it is building a working version of a shared-ledger system that lets banks coordinate cross-border payments around the clock using tokenized deposits. The organization expects an MVP to process real transactions later this year while keeping existing banking rules and compliance frameworks in place.

A research paper involving Google warns that sufficiently advanced quantum computers could eventually break elliptic-curve cryptography used by major blockchains, adding pressure to Ethereum's post-quantum transition plans. The authors estimate 1,200–1,450 logical qubits could crack secp256k1 within minutes, with an “on-spend” attack window potentially as short as 9–12 minutes. Ethereum’s roadmap is expected to take years as larger signatures and higher compute requirements complicate upgrades and user migrations.

Bitmine Immersion Technologies bought 71,179 ETH last week, valued at about $147 million, marking its biggest single-week purchase of 2026 and a fifth straight week of accumulation. Across the prior four weeks, it had acquired 238,244 ETH, taking the five-week total to roughly 309,423 ETH. The firm’s holdings are described at around 4.73 million ETH, with 3.14 million ETH staked.