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 2nd. According to a CoinShares report, digital asset products saw $1 billion in inflows last week, ending a five-week streak of $4 billion in outflows. Market sentiment was influenced by price weakness, technical reset, and whale accumulation support.From a macro perspective, it is difficult to attribute the sentiment shift to a single catalyst. However, previous price weakness, breaking through key technical levels, and large Bitcoin holders accumulating again seem to have contributed to this reversal. At a more specific level, recent client discussions have almost entirely focused on finding entry points rather than reducing exposure to this asset class.Bitcoin was the main beneficiary, recording $881 million in inflows, although Bitcoin bear products saw $3.7 million in inflows, highlighting ongoing market divergence in views.Ethereum also saw $117 million in inflows, the largest since mid-January. Ethereum and Bitcoin remain in a net outflow position year-to-date. Solana saw $53.8 million in inflows last week, bringing the year-to-date total to $156 million. Chainlink saw $3.4 million in small inflows with no significant outflows.

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.

February 27th, WEEX announced that the platform has launched a Gold and Silver Zero Fee Trading Carnival, with a total prize pool of $76,000. Featured assets: PAXG, XAUT, XAG; Event Duration: 2/26 23:59:59 - 3/15 23:59:59 (UTC+8).During the event, users who net deposit ≥ 100 U and complete a single margin ≥ 10 U in trading the featured assets contract will receive a $10 equivalent precious metal token airdrop; with a cumulative contract trading volume of the featured assets exceeding 3,000 U, participants will share a $30,000 equivalent grand prize package based on their trading volume proportion (including Gold and Silver tokens, USDT, trial funds, deduction funds, etc.), with the trading volume champion receiving 100g of Gold (worth about $16,000).

February 27th, according to official sources, Upbit will delist Nomina (NOM) on March 30th at 14:00.After a comprehensive evaluation, Upbit has confirmed that NOM has many shortcomings in various aspects and may cause user losses, including failure to fully disclose important matters according to best practices for virtual asset trading support; lack of necessary change procedures; insufficient transparency and reasonableness of the change process; unclear use, purpose, or function of the virtual asset; and doubt about the authenticity and sustainability of related business.

February 27th, Crypto market research firm Santiment posted on social media that Bitcoin is about to reach a milestone — the number of addresses holding at least 100 BTC is about to surpass 20,000. A wallet holding 100 BTC or more is currently valued at a minimum of $6.78 million, and these wallets are apparently mostly held by high-net-worth individuals, funds, long-term holders, or institutions.When this number continues to rise during a price decline or afterward (as recently observed), it can be seen as a bullish signal. However, the percentage of total supply held by key stakeholders has not shown significant growth, which is also why the price remains under pressure.If the number of 100+ BTC addresses is growing, it means more large holders are diversifying their holdings rather than a small group controlling everything. In this sense, it indicates a reduction in concentration at the top.However, this also indicates that wealth is shifting towards strong hands compared to small retail wallets. Therefore, this is not a signal of decentralization at the most granular level, but it does indicate that more independent entities are entering the "whale" ranks. Historically, the growth in whale addresses has often occurred during accumulation phases, followed by supporting price rebounds.The growth in the number of wallets needs to match the growth in total supply, while retail investors gradually sell tokens to large wallets. History has shown that retail traders will eventually panic sell or take profits too early, allowing this phase to occur.

February 27th, Flow Protocol launched its first Agent-driven token auction early this morning, attracting over $100,000 in bidding funds in just 9 minutes and ultimately accepting a bid of approximately $79,732.The auction was built on the Uniswap CCA (Continuous Clearing Auction) architecture, designed specifically for AI Agents, allowing only AI Agents to participate in bidding, price discovery, and token issuance. After the auction, the raised funds were automatically matched with FLOWS and injected into the Uniswap V4 liquidity pool, using the auction's "clearing price" as the starting price. FLOW became instantly tradable, becoming the first "Agentic Capital Markets" template project on Base.This mechanism upgrades the traditional Launchpad to be AI-native, where humans can enable Agents to participate automatically through building "skills," achieving decentralized, anti-sniping price discovery.

February 27th: According to official sources, the Base Protocol's City Protocol, an attention infrastructure protocol, has officially launched the Virality Leaderboard. This leaderboard utilizes AI to dynamically assess Mindshare and distribute rewards. The initial $20,000 equivalent CP reward pool is now open.It is worth noting that the leaderboard is architecturally designed as an open reward distribution layer. Any project in the Base ecosystem can integrate its own tokens and airdrop budget into the leaderboard. This means that early rankings and Mindshare records may continuously capture rewards from multiple projects.The current points acquisition efficiency may be at an all-time high. Users can enter the leaderboard by completing a 3-step task on the City Rewards page within the Base App.