The Cardano Foundation has partnered with Flowdesk to launch a multi-million-dollar liquidity enhancement initiative aimed at strengthening the trading depth and stability of decentralized exchanges and advancing DeFi capabilities. By injecting ADA tokens and optimizing liquidity management, the program will improve market conditions, attract institutional investors, and support the ongoing growth of the Cardano ecosystem.

In April 2026, the price of Ethereum fell under the influence of geopolitical pressure, but on-chain data performed well and network activity was high. User preference for self-custody increased, and the DEX market share rose. Analysts say the market has not seen panic selling; whether the price will reverse in the future still depends on the external environment.

Gate News message, April 2, Defillama data shows that in March 2026, the total DEX trading volume was $202.0 billion, nearly dropping back to the $251.3 billion level from March 2025. During the same period, Solana DEX trading volume was about $57.3 billion, falling to its lowest level since September 2024.

Solana token SOL has recently fallen by about 11%, repeatedly testing the $80 support level as the market worries it could retrace to $75. Despite network fees continuing to decline, Solana remains appealing for ecosystem development, with DApp revenue surpassing Ethereum. Overall market performance is poor, but SOL continues to face pressure.

The Solana network faces pressure from declining DEX trading volume and SOL’s token price falling to $82.98, as it moves toward the $80 support level. Although trading volume dropped to $55.5 billion in March, Solana performs exceptionally well in the high-revenue DApp space, which still helps stabilize the price. Despite the challenges, analysts remain optimistic about SOL’s long-term outlook and believe that a short-term pullback does not necessarily mean the price will break below $75.

Aster DEX, a decentralized perpetual contract trading platform, announced adjustments to the $ASTER tokenomics model. It will adopt a pure staking rewards mechanism and abolish the monthly linear unlocking of 78.4 million tokens to reduce circulating inflows. The current monthly release amount is 1.8 million to 2.25 million tokens.

In Q1 2026, decentralized exchange (DEX) trading activity fell to its lowest level in nearly a year, with trading volume largely flat compared with 2025. The share of DEX trading volume in centralized exchange volumes dropped to 14.1%, and Solana led with $11.42 billion in average daily trading volume.

Gate News report, on March 30, according to Gate quotes, as of the time of writing, NOM (Onomy) is currently priced at $0.00271, down 7.44% in the last 24 hours, with a high of $0.00324 and a low of $0.00227, and a 24-hour trading volume of $1,053,800. The current market capitalization is approximately $2,509,700. Nomina is the first unified perpetual contract DEX trading platform. Its trading terminal allows users to outperform the market through preset advanced strategies—all functions can be completed on one platform. Nomina provides advanced DeFi users with complex strategy execution tools across perpetual contract DEXs, supporting multi-exchange strategy synchronization, risk management monitoring, and trading automation features, aiming to help users in decentralized derivatives trading.

Bitcoin’s current price is $66,699.75, Ethereum is $2,005.49, and market sentiment is sluggish. Funding rates on major platforms show that both BTC and ETH are bearish signals; ETH’s funding rate is mostly negative, and the market as a whole is in a bearish range.

Gate News message: On March 28, Genius, a Perp DEX trading terminal supported by YZi Labs, announced its token allocation plans for three seasons. 21% of the total Genius token supply will be allocated to the community, with 7% each for Season 1, Season 2, and Season 3. Genius said that Season 1 is about to end.