Gold (XAU) and silver (XAG) futures have moved into the top five by trading volume on Binance Futures, soon after Binance launched USDT-settled perpetual contracts for the metals. CryptoQuant said cumulative volume across the metals contracts has already reached the tens of billions of dollars, while BTC and ETH still lead overall futures activity at around the low-$20-billion range and $18.1B, respectively. WuBlockchain also reported that oil perps for CL and BZ logged $760 million and $358 million on April 2, with XAU and XAG together posting $5.58 billion in daily volume.

Bitget Wallet has added Hyperliquid's HIP-3 infrastructure, bringing always-on, permissionless onchain macro markets into its self-custodial "everyday finance" app. Users can trade RWA spot and perpetual markets from one wallet interface, including around 300 equities and ETFs, major indexes, and commodities such as gold, crude oil, and natural gas.

QCP Group published a note assessing quantum-computing risks for crypto after a Google whitepaper dated March 30 argued Bitcoin-style elliptic-curve cryptography could be broken with fewer quantum resources than previously believed. The firm says the issue is a long-term, system-wide challenge tied to public-key infrastructure rather than an immediate market shock, while noting BTC was trading in the high $68k range at the time of writing.

The U.S. Department of Justice charged 10 executives and employees tied to four crypto market-making firms over alleged schemes to artificially inflate trading volume and token prices. The DOJ said three defendants were arrested in Singapore, extradited to the U.S., and made an initial court appearance in Oakland on Monday. Authorities also reported seizing more than $1 million in cryptocurrency, while BTC was trading in the highs $68k at the time of writing.

Google’s Quantum AI team said in a Tuesday whitepaper and blog post that Bitcoin and Ethereum cryptography tied to ECDLP-256 could be broken with fewer than 500,000 physical qubits and about 1,200 logical qubits. The paper also models a live Bitcoin attack that could steal coins mid-transaction in around 9 minutes, implying a 41% chance of beating Bitcoin’s 10-minute block time.

On-chain trackers showed about $324 million in GameStop-linked BTC moving to Coinbase, prompting speculation the retailer had sold its stack. The company's latest 10-K indicates it still has Bitcoin-linked exposure by pledging 4,709 of 4,710 BTC to Coinbase for a covered-call strategy, receiving about $368 million in cash while limiting gains above roughly $105,000–$110,000 per BTC. On paper, the filing shows GameStop now holds 1 BTC directly.

Hyperliquid Strategies Inc. said Tuesday it has launched options trading for its PURR common shares on the Nasdaq Options Market. The firm said the move is aimed at improving liquidity and price discovery for PURR while giving institutional and retail participants additional ways to hedge and express directional views tied to the Hyperliquid ecosystem.

Hyperliquid’s third-week-of-March recap highlighted three developments: the launch of an officially licensed S&P 500 perpetual contract, USDC support arriving on HyperEVM, and new activity highs across HIP-3 tokenized commodity markets. The update also referenced TradeXYZ figures showing a $5.6 billion 24-hour peak volume and about 45,300 daily unique traders, alongside a community ETHCC Cannes event scheduled for March 31.

Morgan Stanley is proposing the Morgan Stanley Bitcoin Trust (MSBT), a bitcoin investment vehicle designed to trade like a spot Bitcoin ETF share on NYSE Arca. The filing describes a 50,000-share seed basket funded with roughly $1 million of seed capital intended to acquire spot BTC before trading begins.