XRP has moved down CoinGecko's market-cap leaderboard, with BNB taking back the No. 4 spot at $80.5 billion and XRP sliding to No. 5 at $79.8 billion. The report also notes XRP is the only major cryptocurrency showing losses this Saturday and is on pace for a seventh straight monthly decline.

Solana co-founder Anatoly Yakovenko described the Drift Protocol incident as "terrifying" after details pointed to a long-running, in-person social engineering operation. Drift Protocol was drained of $270 million and then halted deposits and withdrawals while warning users it was not an April Fools' joke. The report says the attackers built trust from late 2025 through March 2026 before delivering malicious links and software to contributors.

Fidelity macro director Jurrien Timmer says ETP flow data indicate investors who left Bitcoin in late 2025 are rotating back as gold loses momentum. He describes Bitcoin’s drop from above $124,000 in October to near $60,000 as a "mild winter," with BTC now holding the $65-$70k area while it tries to build a base.

A Bloomberg report says dormant Bitcoin wallets linked to Satoshi Nakamoto could become targets if future quantum attackers can break current cryptography. Satoshi is estimated to control about 1.1 million BTC, and the report argues that access to long-inactive coins could create a severe market shock if they were moved and sold.

Drift Protocol, a Solana-based decentralized exchange, said it is under an active attack and halted deposits and withdrawals, emphasizing it was not an April Fools' joke. On-chain watchers reported that more than $270 million in assets were suspiciously drained and routed to a single wallet. The incident is being handled with multiple security firms, bridges, and exchanges, the protocol said.

Ripple Prime has expanded its Hyperliquid integration to support on-chain perpetual contracts for traditional commodities, enabling institutions to trade gold, silver, and oil-linked derivatives on-chain. The update adds support for "HIP-3 symbols" and follows Ripple Prime's initial Hyperliquid integration in February 2026.

Ripple's U.S. dollar stablecoin RLUSD was fully backed by reserves and overcollateralized, based on a Deloitte attestation covering February 2026. As of Feb. 27, reserves had a market value of $1,568,986,016 versus 1,495,023,851 RLUSD units outstanding. The report also states the reserves are segregated from proprietary funds and consist only of highly liquid, secure asset classes.

A Bitcoin researcher said a rare two-block reorganization around block height 941880 was consistent with normal network behavior, not a coordinated "selfish-mining" attack. The episode briefly produced two equally long valid chains before Foundry USA extended its chain and ultimately notched a seven-block streak that orphaned AntPool and ViaBTC's blocks. The researcher noted the reorg occurred during a low-fee period and the two reorganized blocks brought Foundry only 0.025 BTC in transaction fees.

UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer said political parties will be barred with immediate effect from taking cryptocurrency donations. The move follows a review that also proposes limiting annual donations from British citizens living abroad to between £100,000 and £300,000, alongside tighter checks on funding sources.