Weekly brief: March 29, 2026 – April 5, 2026
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WEEKLY BRIEF Mar 29–Apr 5, 2026
Headlines
Weekly ETF Flows
Exchange Listings
Regulatory
Market Flows
Headlines
- Drift Protocol $200M exploit linked to DPRK-linked social engineering operation
- Tether seeking final fundraise push at $500B valuation
- Telegram integrates Lighter to allow in-app perpetuals trading
- Franklin Templeton to acquire crypto spinoff for institutional digital-asset expansion
- SBI Holdings' B2C2 designates Solana as primary institutional stablecoin network
- Paradigm building its own prediction markets trading terminal
- Strategy filing shows 762,099 BTC held ($51.5B); no purchases in the past week
- Steakhouse Finance domain reported as compromised
- Tether fires top gold traders months after hiring from HSBC
- Liquity (LQTY) spikes 11% following fake Circle acquisition announcement for April Fool's
Weekly ETF Flows
- BTC: +$22.2M net inflows
- ETH: -$42.1M net outflows
- SOL: -$5.3M net outflows
Exchange Listings
- Binance: $BASED (futures), $CL, $BZ, $NATGAS (futures), $PRL (futures), $QQQ, $SPY, $AAPL, $TSM (futures), $MU, $SNDK (futures)
- Bybit: $BASED (launchpool, futures, spot), $EDGE (spot)
- Coinbase: $EDGEX (spot), $MEZO (spot), $CHECK, $SIGN (spot)
- Upbit: $SKY, $USDS (KRW)
- Bithumb: $VVV (spot)
Regulatory
- CFTC and DOJ file lawsuit against Illinois for attempting to regulate prediction markets
- Senator Lummis introduces "Mined in America Act" to promote US BTC mining
- Coinbase secures conditional US approval for trust charter
Market Flows