Gold ($2.15B) and silver ($1.98B) futures on Binance climbed to the No. 4 and No. 5 spots by trading volume, behind Bitcoin ($21.5B), Ethereum ($18.1B), and Solana ($3.0B). Cumulative trading in the two metal perpetual contracts exceeded $130 billion by early March 2026, after Binance launched them in January. Over the past year, gold rose 50.17% to $4,676/ounce and silver gained 117.01% to $73.02/ounce, while Bitcoin fell about 19% to $66,863 at press time.

Ark Invest CEO Cathie Wood said in an April 1 CNBC Squawk Box interview that Bitcoin may no longer face the 85%–95% collapses seen in past bear markets as institutions increasingly treat it as a separate asset class. With BTC trading around $67,000 on April 3, she added that even a 50% drawdown in 2026 would be viewed as a "victory" by the Bitcoin community.

Ripple Labs says it is speeding up XRPL integration with Ripple Treasury, positioning the XRP Ledger for a potentially sharp rise in on-chain usage in 2026. Ripple Treasury handled $13 trillion in payments last year and was bought for about $1 billion in October 2025, while RLUSD and XRP are already being adopted to streamline enterprise payments.

As of April 3, 2026, XRP’s market depth on Binance remains depressed after a sharp pullback in the first half of 2025. The XRP 30-Day Liquidity Index has been pinned near 0.062 since July 2025, while 30-Day Turnover has hovered around $4.46 billion and both metrics are down over 98% from their Dec 2024–Jan 2025 peaks.

XRP Ledger (XRPL) total addresses climbed through Q1 2026 and set a new all-time high as of April 2. Addresses increased from 7,921,350 at the start of 2026 to 8,189,798 at the time of reporting, a 3.39% net gain for the quarter. Over the same period, active users mostly stayed between about 130,000 and 165,000, suggesting many new accounts were created without consistent trading activity.

Ethereum recorded a new quarterly high of 200.4 million transactions in Q1 2026, up about 43% versus the prior quarter. Daily activity peaked at 2.897 million transactions on February 7, 2026, then eased to about 2.363 million by April 2. The quarter's rise coincided with 12.6 million active addresses between January 1 and March 31 and an Ethereum stablecoin market cap near $164.4 billion.

Solana recorded 10.1 billion transactions in the first quarter of 2026, marking the first time the network has crossed 10 billion in a single quarter. The figure was posted on April 1 by Artemis, and it implies roughly a 50% increase from Q4 2025.

US-based spot XRP ETFs recorded a 96.4% quarter-over-quarter drop in inflows in Q1 2026. The group opened on April 1 with $943.73 million in total net assets and logged $42.52 million of net inflows over the prior three months versus $1.166 billion in Q4 2025. Within the cohort, Canary's XRPC led inflows with $37.46 million, while 21Shares' TOXR saw about $53.2 million in net outflows.

XRP slid more than 55% to around $1.35 on April 1 after failing to clear resistance near $3.32, with one analyst arguing the move still fits an ascending-triangle structure on the monthly chart. He says the setup could allow for an additional ~30% decline before a stronger recovery, while longer-term expectations remain focused on a potential bullish leg into 2026.