Solana-based stablecoin transactions reached an all-time high of $650 billion in February, driven by growing demand for onchain payments. The record volume reflects increased usage of stablecoins on the Solana network for payment activity during the month.

XRP rose 2% as XRP Ledger processed a record 2.7 million transactions in a single day. The network handled 2.7 million payments within a 24-hour period, marking a significant adoption milestone. The price movement coincided with elevated on-chain activity, the original report said.

Ethereum faces an "adoption paradox" as network activity reaches record highs while its price declines, a CryptoQuant analyst said. The analyst warned that ETH could drop to around $1,500 if the current bear market persists, despite strong on-chain usage.

The Ethereum Foundation released a document titled "EF Mandate" that defines its stewardship role and restates key guiding principles, the foundation said. The mandate emphasizes commitments to censorship resistance, open-source development, privacy protections, and user self-sovereignty as central network values. The framework clarifies how the foundation supports Ethereum's development around these core principles.

The Ethereum Foundation published the EF Mandate on March 13, a 38-page document in PDF and onchain format describing the "promise of Ethereum" and the EF's role in the ecosystem. The Mandate positions the EF as a steward—not owner or ruler—tasked with keeping the network decentralized and resilient, defining two main principles: maintaining Ethereum as "CROPS" (censorship resistant, open source, private and secure) and scaling access to self-sovereignty for users. The document introduces the "walkaway test" to ensure the protocol can function even if the EF and core developers disappeared, while cofounder Vitalik Buterin described Ethereum as "a sanctuary technology" in a post on X. The release follows internal leadership restructuring at the Foundation, with Buterin writing they are "doubling down on Ethereum" for the network's next chapter.

MoonPay is integrating Ledger-based transaction signing into its CLI wallet for AI crypto agents, enabling users to verify and approve AI-generated transactions using hardware devices. The update allows private keys to remain stored on Ledger hardware during transaction approval workflows within MoonPay's command-line wallet environment.

Ripple Labs unlocked 3 billion XRP from escrow between January and March 2026 under its monthly release schedule, with approximately 900 million XRP worth $1.278 billion entering circulation as of March 13, onchain data from Whale Alert and XRPSCAN show. The company relocked about 2.1 billion XRP into escrow during the quarter, including 500 million XRP valued at $704.84 million on March 2. Ripple has used escrow-released XRP to fund operations, including GTreasury's January 2026 acquisition of Solvexia and a planned purchase of BC Payments for an Australian Financial Services License, while reportedly planning to repurchase up to $750 million of its shares at a $50 billion valuation.

The Ethereum Foundation Board released the EF Mandate on March 13, formally defining censorship resistance, open source, privacy, and security as core protocol principles and permanently publishing the document onchain via Etherscan, BeInCrypto reports. Vitalik Buterin backed the mandate, describing Ethereum as "sanctuary technology" and outlining CROPS as applying to both the base protocol and user-facing applications the Foundation develops, while emphasizing a "walkaway test" under which no single organization should be essential to the network. The Foundation characterized itself as "one of many" stewards rather than Ethereum's ultimate authority, and the mandate ties EF funding and support to CROPS-aligned projects, excluding protocols that depend on surveillance or heavy centralization. The publication follows the Foundation's recent 70,000 ETH staking move and leadership changes, with upcoming protocol work including FOCIL for censorship-resistant transaction inclusion in the Hegotá upgrade planned for H2 2026; ETH was trading near $2,155, up more than 5% over 24 hours at the time of reporting.