Crypto investment products drew $619 million in inflows last week across Bitcoin, Ethereum, Solana, Uniswap and Chainlink, CoinShares data show. XRP spot investment products recorded net outflows of $30.3 million over the same period.

The Ethereum Foundation is staking 72,000 ETH using DVTlite, a project designed to simplify distributed staking for institutions to a near one-click setup, the team said. Users can select which computers will run their nodes, generate a shared configuration where each node uses the same key, and rely on automated processes to handle node discovery, networking, distributed key generation and staking initiation. The team describes complex infrastructure requirements as detrimental to decentralization and suggests running a node should be as straightforward as deploying a docker container or nix image with a single command per node. The team also plans to use this approach for their own future staking and hopes more ETH-holding institutions will adopt similar methods to further distribute authority over staking nodes.

Zcash Open Development Lab (ZODL) said Monday it secured over $25 million in Series A funding from investors including Paradigm and Andreessen Horowitz. The project's core initiative is the zodl wallet, which ZODL aims to develop as an open, self-custodial private financial platform with an emphasis on broader ecosystem interoperability.

The Ethereum Foundation launched an ETH treasury staking program worth about $140 million, starting with 2,016 ETH and planning to increase holdings to around 70,000 ETH over time, the foundation said. The program uses open-source staking tools Dirk and Vouch, originally built by Attestant and now maintained by Bitwise Onchain Solutions, with Bitwise executives stating the move demonstrates confidence in the firm's infrastructure. Separately, Bitmine expanded its Ethereum treasury to 4,534,563 ETH as of March 8, valued at $1,965 per token, equal to 3.76% of total ETH supply, and has staked 3,040,483 ETH generating an annualized $174 million in staking revenue that could rise to $259 million under full-scale staking, the company said. Bitmine Chairman Tom Lee described the market as a late-stage "mini-crypto winter" and said the firm bought 60,976 ETH in the past week, while several analysts on X highlighted technical signals and MVRV pricing bands they believe support a potential Ethereum price recovery from $2,010.78, which was 4.5% above its 24-hour low at press time.

Cardano recorded over 1.7 billion ADA in trading volume over the past 24 hours as its price fell from an intraday high near $0.2682 to around $0.2590, down approximately 3.14%. Onchain data show roughly 230 million ADA, worth more than $63 million, entered the market through large transactions over the past week, adding selling pressure as the token tests the $0.25 support level with its Relative Strength Index near 35 on the two-week chart. Separately, the Cardano Foundation and fintech firm DFX enabled ADA payments at 137 SPAR supermarkets in Switzerland, expanding real-world adoption through faster transactions and lower costs.

Mercado Bitcoin has tokenized more than $73 million in real-world assets across 197 products on the XRP Ledger, the exchange announced. Brazil's largest crypto trading platform is expanding its $200 million roadmap with tokenized private credit, fixed income and equity instruments now available on Ripple's XRPL for instant liquidity and access to global investors. The exchange said XRP utility is seeing strong growth across Latin America as these tokenized offerings launch on the network.

The Ethereum Foundation said it has begun staking a portion of its treasury to earn on-chain rewards. The organization is allocating only part of its holdings to staking to generate additional income from its existing assets.

The Ethereum Foundation has begun staking ETH through Bitwise Onchain Solutions, depositing an initial 2,016 ETH onchain, the foundation announced. The foundation plans to stake a total of 70,000 ETH, valued at more than $140 million, using Bitwise's staking infrastructure.