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.

On March 31, 2026, the U.S. Department of Labor proposed revising its approach to digital assets in 401(k) retirement plans, reversing the 2022 guidance that urged fiduciaries to use "extreme care." The proposal removes any categorical ban and introduces a six-part safe-harbor checklist covering performance, fees, liquidity, valuation, benchmarking, and fiduciary understanding. Separately, on March 30, Senators Cynthia Lummis and Bill Cassidy introduced the "Mined in America Act" tied to domestic mining equipment and a Strategic Bitcoin Reserve.

On March 30, 2026, Senators Cynthia Lummis and Bill Cassidy filed the "Mined in America Act" to expand US-based Bitcoin mining hardware production and reduce reliance on China-linked equipment. The proposal would create a voluntary Commerce Department certification tied to access to existing federal energy programs and would codify a Treasury-run Strategic Bitcoin Reserve using seized assets, with no new taxpayer funding.

On March 30, 2026, the Midnight network reached its genesis block and began operating as a privacy-focused blockchain built under Input Output and associated with founder Charles Hoskinson. Monument Bank said it plans to tokenize up to £250 million (roughly $335 million) of retail deposits on Midnight, while the network debuts with federated node operators including Google Cloud, MoneyGram, and Worldpay. NIGHT was reported trading down over 90% from its post-launch high of about $0.45 reached shortly after its September 2025 debut.

On 30 March 2026, Universal Digital's USDU began trading on Crypto.com after being registered with the Central Bank of the UAE as a Foreign Payment Token. The USD-backed stablecoin operates under ADGM's FSRA licensing and CBUAE registration and is limited to institutional and professional users, not retail. USDU is an ERC-20 on Ethereum backed 1:1 by US dollar reserves held at Emirates NBD and Mashreq, with monthly attestations; as of late March 2026 its market cap was between $97.5 million and $98.8 million.

Pi Network has told Mainnet node operators to upgrade to Protocol 21.2 by April 6, 2026, warning that nodes that miss the cutoff will be disconnected. PI/USDT was trading around $0.177 on OKX in late March 2026, about 94% below its all-time high, as the project lines up additional mandatory upgrades through May.

World Foundation said it completed a $65 million over-the-counter sale of WLD, with the first settlement on March 20 and a related X thread posted on March 28. The sale averaged roughly $0.2719 per token, with $25 million worth of tokens locked for six months, while the rest is intended for operations such as R&D and Orb manufacturing. Attention is also on July 23, 2026, when about 52.5% of WLD's total supply is scheduled to unlock.

BNP Paribas said it will start offering six Exchange-Traded Notes (ETNs) tied to Bitcoin and Ethereum on March 30, 2026, giving eligible retail and private banking clients in France access via standard securities accounts. The bank is also piloting a tokenized money market fund share class on the public Ethereum network and is backing the 12-bank Qivalis consortium targeting a euro-backed stablecoin launch in the second half of 2026.

From 23/03 to 28/03, Bitcoin fell below $87,000 mid-week and selling pressure spread across altcoins, leaving five tokens down 14%–21% over seven days. ether.fi (ETHFI) led losses at –21.46% to $0.4674, while Kite (KITE), Decred (DCR), Morpho (MORPHO), and Polkadot (DOT) also declined with several RSI readings near or under 30.