By April 2, BlackRock held about $53.22 billion in Bitcoin, or roughly 782,290 BTC, up from 760,850 BTC valued at $51.26 billion on February 28. Over the same period, its Ethereum position fell from 3.15 million ETH ($6.37 billion) to 3.02 million ETH (around $6.35 billion), even as ETH's price increased. Across its crypto portfolio, total value rose by about $1.94 billion to $59.57 billion, with Bitcoin at 89% and Ethereum at 11%.

XRP fell 3% on April 2 as the broader crypto market declined, with digital assets down 2.85% amid rate-sensitivity and macro uncertainty. AI-based forecasts point to an average XRP price of $1.22 by April 30, 2026 versus $1.31, while traders watch whether $1.30 holds and how the April 3 U.S. payrolls report shapes sentiment.

Finbold's AI prediction agent projects an average Ethereum (ETH) price of $2,153 for April 1, 2026, implying a -3.54% move from the current $2,242 level. The tool aggregates estimates from Gemini 3 Flash, ChatGPT 5.2, and Grok 4.1, with forecasts ranging from $1,855 to $2,370. Separately, ETH is up more than 8% on the monthly chart but remains below its 200-day SMA of about $3,193.

Finbold's AI prediction agent estimates XRP could average $1.54 on April 1, 2026, compared with a current price of $1.46. The combined output of Gemini 3 Flash, ChatGPT 5.2, and Grok 4.1 points to modest upside, while traders watch whether XRP can regain $1.52 after a March 17 move toward $1.60 was rejected.

E-Estate Group Inc. has finalized the sale of its Bali Tourism Villa and carried out a full buyback of all associated EST tokens at a fixed price of $10 per token. The firm reports the property generated a net profit of $270,000, with the final sale value expected to be around $1.1 million. Proceeds have been added to investors' balances, which they can withdraw or reallocate into other tokenized real estate opportunities on the platform.

In 2026's volatile crypto market, Finbold asked Chinese AI model DeepSeek to outline how it would structure a $1,000 digital asset portfolio. The balanced version allocates 30% each to Bitcoin and Ethereum, with the remaining 40% split between Solana and established AI/DeFi projects, while a higher-risk option shifts more capital into Solana, meme coins and AI narrative tokens. Both concepts keep a portion in Bitcoin as a core holding, but the aggressive approach targets larger short-term swings.

BlackRock is launching the iShares Staked Ethereum Trust ETF (ETHB), a staked Ethereum fund set to begin trading on Nasdaq on Thursday, March 12. The product is the asset manager's third crypto ETF and its first to integrate staking, holding spot ETH and delegating a portion for staking rewards. ETHB charges a 0.25% sponsor fee, temporarily cut to 0.12% on the first $2.5 billion in assets during its first year.

On Wednesday, March 4, BlackRock increased its exposure to Bitcoin and Ethereum by roughly $350 million through its spot crypto ETFs. The firm's iShares Bitcoin Trust took in $306.25 million, while its Ethereum vehicle saw $45.5 million of inflows, lifting the manager's weekly additions to about $1 billion and total crypto ETF holdings to around $63.3 billion.

According to data cited from Etherscan, the count of daily active Ethereum addresses slid from 1,329,193 on February 7 to 746,062 on March 3, 2026, a drop of roughly 45% from levels that were near the December 9, 2022 record. Despite this on-chain slowdown, Ethereum's price has risen 6.62% over the past 24 hours to around $2,078, with traders now watching resistance near $2,150 and potential downside if the price falls below $2,000.