Pi Network has completed the distribution of rewards for the first round of KYC verification. With more than 1 million validators contributing to the confirmation of 18 million global identities, the reward pool exceeds 26 million Pi Coin. This progress marks a key step toward the mainnet launch, demonstrating the efficiency of human–machine collaboration, optimizing performance mechanisms, and attracting more users to participate.

Zcash, a privacy coin, patched a critical security vulnerability on April 1 that could have been exploited by malicious miners to move more than 25,000 ZEC from the now-deprecated Sprout pool. The vulnerability has existed since July 2020, but it was not actually exploited. The development team has released a patched version, and major mining pools have completed the upgrade. In addition, Zcash’s mechanism helps prevent inflationary issuance, ensuring the total supply remains secure.

AWAKE（LGNS）announced on March 31 that it has completed the first round of the $100 million dual-chain ecosystem plan ILO. The total project size is $220 million, and it plans to launch a dual-chain parallel development strategy after completing the ILO, while deploying new contracts on Anubis Chain.

F2Pool co-founder Wang Chun disclosed that a Thai apartment purchased in 2015 was sold for 7 BTC, representing a sharp depreciation from the original purchase price. The current value of 2,900 BTC is about $194 million, and while he was in Pattaya he obtained a passport and visa, and he also led the launch of the Zcash mining pool.

Gate News, according to Gate’s platform announcement, Gate Earn Yubibao has launched an additional rewards pool for BTC 7-day fixed-term wealth management. Subscription users can enjoy a 10% annualized return bonus. The total rewards pool size is 3,000,000 R2 tokens, first come, first served. The additional rewards will be distributed daily in the form of an equivalent amount of R2. R2 Protocol is an on-chain asset management platform committed to providing institutional-level real returns for crypto-native users and traditional users.

Gate News reports that on March 28, according to Dune data, the median holding time for Solana's entire pool tokens has significantly decreased over the past 750 days: approximately 1 day in 2024 (peaking over 100,000 seconds), dropping to about 100 seconds in 2025, and further decreasing to around 60 seconds in early 2026.

The Wildcard project held its token launch on March 27, with a market value reaching $1.1 million at one point, but it is now only $809,000, raising doubts about the project. Although the founder has a rich background, the project's progress has not met expectations, and multiple funding rounds have failed to revitalize the project. The low liquidity pool of the token reflects the impact of a lukewarm crypto market on gaming projects.

An unknown Stake contract on Binance Smart Chain was attacked, resulting in a loss of approximately $133,000. The attacker exploited a price vulnerability in the contract by manipulating the liquidity pool price to stake TUR tokens, earning inflated rewards and withdrawing them. Ultimately, they exchanged all TUR within the contract for USDT to profit.

The Polygon community released the PIP-85 proposal on March 26, adjusting the priority fee distribution, introducing an equal weight factor, and setting the staking reward ratio, aiming to fairly reward network participants and incentivize validators.