Doppler Finance has entered into a partnership with Hex Trust to offer institutional-grade custody and yield infrastructure for Wrapped XRP, according to the two parties. The collaboration is designed to extend XRP liquidity beyond the XRP Ledger into a range of blockchain ecosystems. It also provides institutional participants with a compliant and secured entry point to access XRP yield strategies for the first time.

Solana's stablecoin transaction volume reached an all-time high of $650 billion in February, Grayscale reports. The asset manager said growing demand for onchain payments drove the network's stablecoin activity to the record level.

Binance announced it will list Fabric Protocol's ROBO token with a Seed Tag on March 4 at 16:30 UTC, marking it as a higher-risk and innovative project. Spot trading will launch with three pairs: ROBO/USDT, ROBO/USDC and ROBO/TRY. The exchange said the listing will provide ROBO with direct access to its global user base and liquidity pools.

Aave Chan Initiative (ACI) plans to exit the Aave ecosystem in four months, citing concentrated control and lack of transparency by Aave Labs, according to an Aave governance post on March 3. ACI argued there is no room for an independent provider when Aave Labs holds undisclosed voting power and uses it on its own proposals, following a similar move by BGD Labs. Aave Labs CEO and Founder Stani Kulechov said the protocol and incentive programs will continue to operate normally and that the firm will coordinate with other DAO service providers to ensure a smooth transition. The AAVE token fell nearly 10% on March 3, dropping from $127 to a low of $107, while Santiment data show wallets holding between 1 million and 10 million AAVE reduced their positions from 4.7 million AAVE to 2.58 million AAVE since late January.

Ignas | DeFi Research has identified 132 "investable" tokens from 17,148 tracked by CoinGecko, with 45 distributing $153 million in monthly holder rewards ($1.8 billion annualized), data from DefiLlama, CoinMarketCap, Dexu, Moni and LunarCrush show. Hyperliquid and Pump.fun account for 69% of total holder payouts among these 45 tokens, while Pump.fun and Aerodrome show low price-to-sales ratios compared with Uniswap and Aave. The study also highlights 16 protocols including Lido, CoW Protocol, Meteora, Virtuals Protocol and Drift generating at least $100,000 in monthly revenue but retaining income in treasuries, alongside segments such as exchange tokens (BNB, LEO, OKB), L1 blockchains (BTC, ETH, TRX, XRP, ADA, Cosmos), AI and computing (Venice, Bittensor, Render, Akash, Grass), RWA, privacy coins (Monero, Zcash), memecoins (DOGE, SHIB, PEPE, BONK, FLOKI, WIF), L2s, DePIN, oracles and stablecoin infrastructure led by Ethena. Ignas concludes that ideal bear-market holdings combine holder rewards, low P/S, high MC/FDV and steady demand, highlighting Pump.fun, Aerodrome, JUP, SKY, CAKE, exchange tokens LEO, OKB and GT, and "high risk, high reward" HYPE, while urging traders to monitor governance changes at Lido, Meteora, Drift and CoW Protocol for potential dividend switches.

The x402 protocol has enabled AI agents to execute accountless, KYC-free microtransactions and processed more than 100 million payments by end-2025, with an additional 15 million transactions in the first 30 days of 2026, Cambrian Network and project disclosures show. Launched in May 2025 by Coinbase with Cloudflare—which manages roughly 20% of global web traffic—x402 repurposes the HTTP 402 Payment Required status code so AI agents receive a 402 response with pricing terms, sign payment details via EIP712, and complete resource delivery in under a second using stablecoins like USDC. An upgraded x402 V2 launched on Dec. 11, 2025, added multichain support for Base, Solana, and Avalanche, a Session mechanism converting wallets into reusable identity credentials, and integration with ACH and credit card networks, while Google later incorporated x402 into its Agent2Agent protocol. The x402 ecosystem token reached a CoinGecko market cap exceeding $9 billion with daily volume above $230 million, though many x402-branded tokens are described as unrelated meme tokens, and technical and regulatory questions persist around EIP712 security, ERC8004 Sybil resistance, sub-$0.0001 micropayment fee economics on L2s, standard fragmentation versus Google's AP2 and a16z's ACP, and unresolved KYC/AML triggers for AI-initiated payments.

Solana processed 3.4 billion transactions in February, reflecting an 11% month-over-month increase from January's volume, according to data cited in the report. The Layer 1 network was described as the only blockchain to reach the billion-transaction level in February, while BNB Chain, a key competitor, handled 424M transactions over the same period.

Solana traded at $89.67 on May 20, up roughly 5.7% in 24 hours, with its market cap rising above $51 billion and trading volume climbing past $6 billion, up 2.64%, exchange data show. The price broke through the upper Bollinger Band at $89.6, with technical resistance near $92.02 and support around $85.8, while the Bull Bear Power indicator reached 4.83 in positive territory. Liquidation data show shorts accounted for $17.94 million of the $24.63 million in positions cleared over 24 hours, including $4.97 million of the $5.11 million liquidated in the past hour.

Ethereum daily active addresses fell to 746,062 on March 3 from 1,329,193 on February 7, a 45% decline that follows sustained price weakness, Etherscan data obtained by Finbold show. The February 7 reading was near the all-time high of 1,420,187 active ETH addresses recorded on December 9, 2022, while ETH has rebounded 6.62% in the past 24 hours to $2,078 as Bitcoin moved back above $70,000. Finbold reports total crypto market capitalization rose 4.8% to $2.42 trillion over the same period, with perpetual futures open interest up 8.8% and funding rates 21% higher, signaling traders are adding leveraged long positions. Ethereum faces resistance near $2,150 with a potential upside target around $2,300 if that level breaks, Finbold notes, while a drop below $2,000 could reopen the $1,900 zone and Bitcoin holding above $71,500 remains a key gauge for broader market strength.