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.

On-chain figures show XRP wallets with at least 1 million XRP have risen to 1,997, edging close to the 2,000 threshold. The distribution includes 1,333 addresses holding 1M–5M XRP and 6 accounts with more than 1B XRP, while XRP traded at $1.32, down more than 2% over the past 24 hours.

Bitmine, chaired by Tom Lee, added 167,578 ETH to staking on March 31, a position valued at about $340 million. The move lifted its total staked amount to 3,310,221 ETH, estimated at roughly $6.72 billion. Ethereum traded near $2,024 after a mild 1.45% decline, suggesting limited immediate price impact.

Flare Network CEO Hugo Philion said on March 31, 2026 that the project plans to add Bitcoin support later this year, alongside progress on Trusted Execution Environments (TEE) and XRPFi adoption. He framed Flare's shift as an expansion from an XRP-centered solution toward a broader computation layer, aimed at enabling DeFi-style lending and yield for assets such as XRP and BTC.

Cardano’s ADA traded at $0.2407 on March 31, down 3.6% on the day and more than 8% over the week, after losing the $0.245 level on the 4H chart. The breakdown keeps $0.22 as the next downside target while $0.245 turns into resistance, with higher resistance zones marked at $0.273 and $0.304. Over the same week, large holders increased positions by 220M ADA, lifting whale balances from about 13.44B on March 24 to 13.84B on March 30.

Cardano's ADA slipped to about $0.24 after the Midnight privacy sidechain went live, falling 3.1% over the past 24 hours. The chart view cited in the report places support at $0.24 with resistance at $0.30 and $0.32, while some models point to $0.24–$0.26 near term and others float an April maximum of $0.350 or an April average of $0.55.

Ripple is scheduled to release 1 billion XRP from escrow on April 1, 2026 as part of the monthly mechanism it has followed since late 2017. The company originally locked 55 billion XRP in time-based escrows on the XRP Ledger, and it typically re-locks 60% to 80% after each release, keeping net additions smaller. XRP traded at $1.31 at press time, valuing the gross unlock at about $1.31 billion.

Aster said it has reduced monthly ASTER token unlocks by 97%, shifting ecosystem releases to staking rewards only. The protocol previously unlocked 78.4 million ASTER per month, but now targets about 1.8 million–2.25 million monthly via 450,000 ASTER per weekly epoch. Aster also reported a post-burn total supply of 7,922,139,508 ASTER and said insider unlocks remain paused until September 2026.