Rep. Maxine Waters sent a March 26 letter to Kansas City Fed President Jeff Schmid asking how Kraken Financial obtained approval for a limited purpose Federal Reserve account and what conditions were attached. The letter presses for details on permitted services (including FedACH, Check Services, FedCash, and Fedwire Securities Services), balance and liquidity limits, and any additional oversight beyond Wyoming’s SPDI framework, with a written response requested by April 10, 2026.

Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse said stablecoins may become crypto's "ChatGPT moment" for businesses looking for faster and more efficient payments. He also pointed to more than $33 trillion in stablecoin trading volume in 2025 and noted that nearly 90% of that activity was tied to USDT and USDC. Separately, Bloomberg Intelligence projected stablecoin flows could reach $56.6 trillion by 2030.

In a March 26 video, Digital Ascension Group CEO Jake Claver said XRP’s ability to handle bank-scale payments depends less on market cap and more on whether liquidity can absorb large transfers without excessive costs. He argued that higher XRP prices could reduce the token quantity needed to settle transactions such as $100 million and help limit slippage that he claimed could be around 10% for trades of that size. XRP was trading at $1.3337 at press time.

Bitcoin [BTC] fell more than 6% over a volatile 48 hours and broke below the $70,000 support level, retracing toward early-March prices. Long liquidations stayed contained at under $120 million, while a newly created wallet withdrew 2,650 BTC ($179.6 million) from Binance and short-term holder inflows to Binance declined to 25,000 BTC from roughly 100K BTC in early February.

Morgan Stanley updated its S-1 for its proposed spot Bitcoin ETF, MSBT, and set a 0.14% management fee. If approved by the SEC, the fee would undercut rivals in the roughly $85 billion to $92 billion spot BTC ETF market, including Grayscale’s 0.15% and BlackRock and Fidelity at 0.25%. The bank also outlined earlier steps such as a $1 million seed investment and proposed custodians Coinbase and BNY Mellon.

Crypto market sentiment has slid to its lowest level in months, while larger Bitcoin holders have been adding coins. Over the past 30 days, wallets holding 10 to 10,000 BTC accumulated about 61,568 BTC (+0.45%), and wallets under 0.01 BTC added roughly 213 BTC (+0.42%). The backdrop included choppy broader markets and renewed geopolitical tensions, alongside a Crypto Fear & Greed Index reading of 10 on Thursday and 13 on Friday.

PEPE saw a $20.7 million whale withdrawal as spot netflows showed a -$2.44M outflow, pointing to reduced exchange supply and lower near-term sell pressure. The token has held support at $0.0000319 while repeatedly failing near $0.000040, keeping price compressed between key levels. Derivatives metrics also firmed, with Open Interest up 5.27% to $192.50 million and the OI-weighted funding rate turning positive at 0.0070%.

Bitwise CEO Hunter Horsley said on March 27 that the market is moving from expecting institutional adoption to active deployment, adding that many allocators already hold crypto and more could enter over the next six months. He cited a Coinbase Institutional survey of 351 firms showing 74% expect higher prices over the next 12 months and 73% plan to increase allocations, with 29% targeting portfolio weights above 5% by 2026. Bitwise and VettaFi data also indicated advisor participation is rising, including a larger share allocating to crypto and more gaining the ability to trade it for clients.