Major financial institutions including Banque de France, Société Générale, and UBS are moving beyond pilots to actively transition segments of the global repo market onto Ethereum's public blockchain, targeting the $12.5 trillion market that underpins daily bank liquidity. This operational deployment aims to improve transparency, auditability, and settlement speed, representing concrete, high-value institutional adoption of Ethereum's base layer for mission-critical finance. The Ethereum Foundation executed its largest single staking event on March 30, 2026, depositing 22,517 ETH (worth ~$46.2 million at the time) into the Beacon Chain. Furthermore, the upgrade initiated a planned expansion of blob capacity per block, starting from 6 and scheduled to increase to 21 by early 2026, which directly increases network throughput for rollups.