CoinShares: Digital Asset Investment Products Saw $2 Billion in Outflows Last Week

**Uniswap Foundation Releases Unaudited 2025 Financial Summary** On April 1, the Uniswap Foundation published an unaudited financial update as of December 31, 2025. Key details: - Total assets: $85.8M (including $49.9M in cash/stablecoins, 15.1M UNI tokens, 240 ETH) - Current reserves expected to fund operations through January 2027 **Fund Allocation & Operations** - ~$106.2M earmarked for ecosystem grants and incentive programs; $26.3M for operating costs + employee token incentives - 2025 full-year operating expenses (excluding token compensation): $9.7M - 2025 interest income: $1.7M - Note: Allocations may adjust due to governance changes from the approved UNIfication proposal **Ecosystem & Institutional Updates** 2025 milestones: Launch of Uniswap v4, Unichain mainnet deployment, UNIfication fee switch activation. Proposed next steps: Enable protocol fees for v3 liquidity pools, expand on-chain deployments. Institutional: BlackRock and Securitize recently

On April 1st, Bitget market data shows spot gold topped $4,760 per ounce, with intraday gains widening to 2.00%. New York gold futures also climbed past $4,790 per ounce, up 2.39% on the day.

On April 1st, Ethereum Foundation researcher Devansh Mehta proposed a Validator Rewards Redistribution (VRR) scheme at the EthCC conference. Under the proposal, validators would be able to signal on the consensus layer and autonomously choose to redirect a portion of their staking rewards to a designated smart contract—rather than withdrawing all funds to their personal wallets. Recipients could include entities like Gitcoin, Octant, public goods funding platforms, security audit firms, and core protocol research teams. The scheme entails two Execution Layer changes: a mechanism for validators to signal their redirection percentage, and logic to transfer funds to the specified contract.

PR Newswire reported on April 1 that Bitcoin mining firm Cango Inc. (NYSE: CANG) has received a notice from the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) stating it failed to meet the NYSE’s continued listing standard related to stock price. As of March 9, 2026, the average closing price of the company’s Class A common stock over 30 consecutive trading days was below $1.00 per share—violating Rule 802.01C of the NYSE Listed Company Manual. Under NYSE regulations, Cango has a 6-month cure period starting from the notice date. Compliance will be restored if, on the last trading day of any month during the cure period, both the closing price and the 30-trading-day average closing price are at or above $1.00 per share. Cango noted it has notified the NYSE of its intent to remedy the situation and will continue to assess market conditions and potential solutions. During the cure period, its Class A common stock will trade normally on the NYSE. The notice does not affect the company’s day-to-d

On April 1st, Bloomberg ETF analyst Eric Balchunas reported that BlackRock plans to launch the iShares Bitcoin Premium ETF, with the ticker BITA. The highly anticipated follow-up to BlackRock’s spot Bitcoin ETF IBIT has not yet disclosed its management fee, but the fee is expected to be 38 basis points. As previously reported, the iShares Bitcoin Premium ETF uses a covered call options strategy. Unlike traditional spot ETFs that passively track Bitcoin’s price, this fund will hold Bitcoin, earn premiums by selling covered call options, and pass those proceeds along to investors—converting Bitcoin’s volatility into returns.

On April 1st, The Wall Street Journal reported that global asset management giant Franklin Templeton has announced plans to acquire 250 Digita—a spinoff of venture capital firm CoinFund—to expand its cryptocurrency investment products. 250 Digita was spun off from CoinFund in January of this year. ### Notes on American English adaptation: 1. **Date clarity**: Added preposition *On* (standard for formal/informal U.S. writing) 2. **Conciseness**: Used *has announced plans to* (more precise than flat *will acquire*, reflecting a planned move) 3. **Natural phrasing**: Replaced *CoinFund's spinoff* with *a spinoff of CoinFund* (avoids clunky possessive; common in U.S. business writing) 4. **Industry shorthand**: Kept *cryptocurrency* (clear for a financial audience; *crypto* is also acceptable but *cryptocurrency* is more formal for a WSJ-style update) 5. **Flow**: Used em dash to clarify 250 Digita’s relationship to CoinFund (streamlines complex info, typical of U.S. news briefs)