March 2nd. Last Saturday, the cryptocurrency market once again tested lower levels due to the Middle East conflict. QCP Capital stated that the initial drop triggered approximately $300 million in long liquidations, but the deleveraging scale was relatively limited, indicating that the market had reduced its positions before the recent volatility.Laser Digital indicated that the US stock market rebounded from its lows, the US dollar and oil prices gave back early gains, and Bitcoin also reclaimed lost territory. Traders are betting that the economic impact will be limited unless the energy supply route remains disrupted.Regarding crypto options, the short-term reaction was strong but the long-term impact was limited. QCP mentioned that as the conflict escalated, investors were observed increasing their long exposure for late March, indicating that some traders are positioning for a rebound after consecutive months of weak performance.Macro-driven cautious sentiment is equally important as geopolitical factors. XS.com's Senior Market Analyst Linh Tran stated that as the market reevaluates the pace of Fed policy easing, the opportunity cost of holding non-yield assets remains high, leading Bitcoin to trade "cautiously" around $66,000 to $67,000. Geopolitical shocks often drive short-term volatility rather than reshaping Bitcoin's macro trend.Stephen Coltman, Head of Macro at 21Shares, emphasized the inflation transmission path, pointing out that historically, wars have had inflationary effects, lifting commodity prices and widening fiscal deficits. This could complicate the interest rate outlook during the initial turbulence of risk assets.

March 2, according to official sources, Binance will open BNB/USD, ETH/USD, and SOL/USD spot trading pairs on March 3, 2026 at 16:00 (Beijing Time).

March 2nd. German Foreign Minister Maas stated on March 2nd local time that Germany will not participate in any military action against Iran.Furthermore, Minister Maas added that if German Bundeswehr forces in the Middle East are attacked, they can defend themselves. However, Germany will not take any further action. Currently, some German Bundeswehr troops are stationed in Jordan and Iraq.

March 2nd, according to Onchain lens monitoring, BlackRock has deposited 1,134 BTC to Coinbase in the past 15 minutes, worth about $74.95 million, and may continue to deposit more.

March 2nd. According to The Wall Street Journal, crypto investor Anthony Pompliano's publicly traded Bitcoin treasury company ProCap Financial is actively buying back shares to narrow the discount to net asset value while also purchasing an additional 450 bitcoins.

March 2nd: The US Central Command confirmed that in a fierce battle, US military fighter jets were mistakenly shot down by the Kuwaiti air defense force, resulting in the crash of three F-15E fighter jets.

March 2nd - Secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council, Ali Shamkhani, stated that Iran's brave armed forces only fight for defense, will not hesitate to defend themselves and their six-thousand-year-old civilization, and make the enemy regret their miscalculation. Iran is prepared for a protracted war, unlike the readiness of the United States.

March 2nd, International Atomic Energy Agency Director General Grossi said that Iran's nuclear facilities were largely unaffected in the attack, with no signs indicating Iran's nuclear facilities were targeted. (Golden Ten)

March 2nd, according to Coinglass data, affected by geopolitical turmoil, European stocks opened sharply lower and performed poorly in mid-day trading. Pre-market trading in US stocks also saw a decline in the three major stock indexes. The current mainstream CEX and DEX funding rates indicate a market-wide shift to a bearish stance again (accompanied by a rebound to neutrality on Sunday). The specific funding rates for major coins are shown in the attached image.BlockBeats Note: Funding Rate is a fee set by cryptocurrency exchanges to maintain the balance between the contract price and the underlying asset price, usually applicable to perpetual contracts. It is a fund exchange mechanism between long and short traders, and the trading platform does not collect this fee. It is used to adjust the cost or profit of traders holding contracts to keep the contract price close to the underlying asset price.When the funding rate is 0.01%, it represents the baseline rate. When the funding rate is greater than 0.01%, it indicates a generally bullish market. When the funding rate is less than 0.005%, it indicates a generally bearish market.

March 2nd, According to the monitoring website Downdetector, Anthropics' popular AI chatbot Claude experienced a service outage on Monday, with thousands of users reporting issues. The specific cause of the outage is currently unknown.In an initial status update, Anthropic stated that some services were experiencing "increased error rates" and said they began investigating the issue at 11:49 AM London time. According to the company's status page, the outage affected users of the Claude chatbot and Anthropic's programming service, Claude Code.

March 2nd. According to official sources, Binance Launchpool will launch Opinion (OPN). Users will be able to stake their BNB, USDC, U, and USD1 to participate in a 2-day OPN airdrop, with mining starting on March 3, 2026, at 08:00 (Beijing time). Details are as follows:· Launchpool Token Reward: 20,000,000 OPN (2% of total supply)· Stake BNB: Reward 16,000,000 OPN (80%)· Stake USDC: Reward 2,000,000 OPN (10%)· Stake U: Reward 1,000,000 OPN (5%)· Stake USD1: Reward 1,000,000 OPN (5%)· Mining Period: From March 3, 2026, 08:00 to March 5, 2026, 07:59In addition, Binance will list OPN on March 5, 2026, at 21:00 (Beijing time) and open trading for OPN/USDT, OPN/USDC, OPN/BNB, OPN/U, OPN/USD1, and OPN/TRY pairs. OPN will be marked with the Seed designation.

March 2nd, as the Middle East conflict boosted oil prices and stoked inflation concerns, the currency markets in the US, UK, and Eurozone scaled back bets on rate cuts.According to swaps tied to policy meeting dates, the likelihood of the Fed cutting rates three times in 2026 dropped from nearly 50% last week to 20%. Traders no longer expect the Bank of England to cut rates three times this year, reducing the probability of a March rate cut from over 80% to 60%. They have also halved the odds of the ECB cutting rates this year, pricing in only 5 basis points.

March 2, according to official sources, Binance will list OPN on March 5, 2026, at 21:00 (Beijing Time), and open trading for OPN/USDT, OPN/USDC, OPN/BNB, OPN/E, OPN/USD1, and OPN/TRY pairs. OPN will be marked with a special tag.

March 2nd, according to an announcement from Binance, Opinion (OPN) was launched with an initial circulating supply of 198,500,000 tokens, accounting for 19.85% of the total supply (1 billion tokens).

March 2, according to official sources, Strategy spent $204.1 million last week to acquire an additional 3,015 BTC, with an average price of around $67,700 per BTC.As of March 1, 2026, Strategy holds a total of 720,737 BTC, with a total cost of around $54.77 billion, at an average cost of around $75,985 per BTC.