Binance’s Earn platform is launching a limited-time OPN Fixed Savings promotion, per an official March 4 announcement. Eligible users who subscribe to the OPN Fixed Savings product during the event will earn an exclusive 200% annualized interest rate for 7 days. The promotion runs from 9:00 PM UTC+8 (Singapore Time) on March 5, 2026, to 7:59 AM UTC+8 (Singapore Time) on March 21, 2026.

March 4 — Official sources confirm that prediction market Predict.fun today announced its strategic acquisition of Probable, an on-chain prediction platform originally incubated by PancakeSwap and YZi Labs. Financial terms of the deal have not been disclosed. Since launching in December 2025, Predict.fun has processed $1.5 billion in cumulative transaction volume across more than 120,000 users, with over 3.3 million transactions recorded. The acquisition will further advance Predict.fun’s goal of becoming the world’s most capital-efficient prediction market by strengthening its underlying technical architecture, accelerating market structure optimization, boosting execution efficiency, and improving capital utilization.

The US military strike on Iran over the weekend intensified global tensions and investor anxiety. Yet, Matt Hougan, Chief Investment Officer at Bitwise, stated that it also highlighted the important role of crypto and on-chain markets. With major stock exchanges closed, on-chain markets stepped in as the primary venue for global price discovery. US Strike on Iran Exposed a Structural Gap That Only Crypto Markets Could Fill In a recent memo titled “The Weekend That Changed Finance,” Hougan noted that when President Trump announced a military strike on Iran at 2:30 a.m. ET on Sunday, global markets were closed. Stocks, futures, forex, and exchanges across Europe and Asia had all gone dark for the weekend. The only traditional markets still running were small Middle Eastern exchanges in Saudi Arabia and Qatar. Hougan suggested that on-chain markets were the only venues that responded in real time. Thus, they filled a structural void left by closed traditional exchanges. “In years past, if a major geopolitical shock hit on a Sunday morning, investors would wait until the U.S. futures markets opened at 6 p.m. ET on Sunday to find out what the impact would be. But as this weekend showed, they now have an alternative: They can turn to crypto-based rails, which trade 24/7/365, globally. And this weekend, they did,” he said. BeInCrypto also reported that the impact of the attacks was quickly evident in the crypto market, with Bitcoin (BTC) dropping on the news. According to Hougan, for most of that Sunday, “on-chain finance was the center of the financial world.” He noted that Hyperliquid, a decentralized perpetual exchange, became a “focus.” Hyperliquid’s HIP-3 decentralized exchanges allowed traders to trade synthetic perpetual futures contracts tied to traditional assets. BeInCrypto reported that HIP-3’s open interest exceeded $1 billion. Overall, the platform saw over $11.5 billion in trading volume across Saturday and Sunday, according to DeFiLlama data. Follow us on X to get the latest news as it happens Meanwhile, tokenized gold also drew a rush of investor interest. Tether’s XAUT logged more than $300 million in 24-hour trading volume as demand spiked. At the same time, activity on Prediction markets like Kalshi and Polymarket also surged. “Sunday’s attacks put the spotlight on markets that never close. Don’t expect traders to forget it,” Hougan remarked.”It was the first time I remember crypto-enabled markets being ‘the market,’ full stop.” The executive also shared that the weekend’s activity has prompted him to lower his projection of when finance would move on-chain. “I thought that crypto-enabled markets would grow up along the edges—that, for the next 5-10 years, they would mostly serve crypto natives and others who don’t fit cleanly into the traditional financial system…The shift to onchain finance is inevitable. After this weekend, I’m convinced that shift is coming sooner than any of us had imagined,” he mentioned. Hougan, in his analysis, also wrote that hedge funds, banks, or any other investors must now adapt to compete in global, real-time markets. “If you are a hedge fund, bank, or any other investor who wants to trade competitively, you no longer have a choice: You have to set up a stablecoin wallet and learn how to trade on Hyperliquid. You need to understand XAUT. You need to read about tokenized stocks. Because even if you don’t, everyone else will,” he claimed. Thus, the weekend of the US-Iran strikes showed that always-on financial markets may be moving from the margins to the mainstream, and investors are now paying attention.

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On March 4th, per official data from Hyperliquid (https://app.hyperliquid.xyz/join/NTOD), Bitcoin (BTC) hit a low of $66,000 at 11 PM yesterday before rebounding. It is currently trading at $68,640, marking a 3.9% gain in that period. Ethereum (ETH), meanwhile, saw a smaller increase. Per monitoring by Hyperinsight (https://t.me/HyperInsight), the largest long positions for both ETH and BTC on the platform belong to the same "ETH Whale" address (0xa5b0), with a total position size of $183 million. Its BTC long position ($47.7 million) is now profitable, while its ETH long position ($139 million) needs ETH to rise ~0.2% to break even—its current unrealized loss is ~$170,000. Additionally, this address has received multiple fund transfers from Matrixport. Another suspected associated address (0x6C8) holds ~$99.5 million in ETH long positions, with an unrealized loss of $1.1 million.

On March 4th, Bitcoin rebounded to break above $69,000, per HTX market data. As of press time, it’s trading at $69,102, with a 24-hour gain of 1.48%.

March 4th — Per GMGN monitoring, the on-chain meme coin CLAWD rebounded to roughly $7 million in market cap earlier today, now sitting at $6.7 million. It’s up 33% over the past 24 hours, with a trading volume of about $1.3 million. CLAWD is a community-launched token created by users to support the AI agent “clawd.atg.eth” — the self-hosted personal AI assistant of Ethereum Foundation developer Austin Griffith, built on the open-source clawd.bot platform. The token’s community deployer has stated they will allocate a portion of transaction fees to the “clawd.atg.eth” wallet address. BlockBeats reminds users: Meme coins are extremely volatile, heavily tied to market sentiment and conceptual hype, and lack actual value or practical use cases. Investors should be mindful of the associated risks.

March 4th, Coinglass data reveals: If Bitcoin breaks above $71,000, cumulative short liquidations across major centralized exchanges (CEXs) will total $633 million. Conversely, a drop below $67,000 would trigger $1.103 billion in cumulative long liquidations on major CEXs. BlockBeats Note: Liquidation charts do not show the exact number of contracts pending liquidation or their total value. Instead, the bars represent the relative importance of each liquidation cluster vs. adjacent clusters—defined as "intensity." This means the charts indicate how strongly the underlying asset’s price will react at a given level. A taller "liquidation bar" signals a more intense market response due to a liquidity cascade when the price hits that threshold.

On March 4, per monitoring from HyperInsight, the address of "Brother Ma" Li Cheng Huang has just reduced his ETH long position. He currently holds a long position of 3,275 ETH with 25x leverage, an average entry price of $1,981.68, and an unrealized profit of $33,000.

Power Protocol’s POWER token has dropped over 90% over the past 24 hours, erasing all its February 2026 gains. The staggering loss has sparked debate about the project as a major token unlock approaches. Power Token Surges 900% in February, Then Faces 90% Loss For context, Power Protocol is a blockchain infrastructure platform focused on Web3 gaming and entertainment. It unifies games, consumer applications, studios, and digital IP under a shared economic layer powered by the POWER token. The altcoin is a relatively new market entrant, having launched on December 5, 2025. Following an initial rally, the token experienced volatility. Nonetheless, momentum picked up again in early February, even as the broader market continued to struggle. Later in the month, the platform secured $3 million in funding from BITKRAFT Ventures. “Power Protocol raised new funding in a round led exclusively by BITKRAFTVC, bringing total funding to $15.4M. We’re building the economic engine behind the next generation of crypto entertainment, with POWER at the core,” the platform announced. Over the course of February, POWER climbed more than 900%. The rally culminated in the altcoin hitting an all-time high of $2.46 on March 2. However, what followed was a massive drop. BeInCrypto Markets data showed the token declined 90% over the past day, hitting an intraday low of $0.15, its lowest level since late January. At press time, POWER traded at $0.18. Follow us on X to get the latest news as it happens Power Protocol (POWER) 90% Price Drop. Source: BeInCrypto Markets The sharp decline has also propelled POWER to the top of CoinGecko’s daily losers list. Additionally, community sentiment remains largely negative, with 64% of users bearish about the token. CoinGecko attributed the decline to two triggers. First, the Ronin Bridge reportedly saw a temporary pause. This created a significant price gap between on-chain markets and centralized exchanges (CEXs). Second, an upcoming token unlock scheduled for March 5 intensified fears of additional selling pressure. According to DropsTab data, the unlock represents 1.2% of the total supply. POWER Token Unlock. Source: DropsTab Meanwhile, the severity of the drop also triggered community speculation. Some users on X made rug-pull allegations, while others labeled it a “crime dump.” “Crime coins can also do what $POWER is doing now….go -75% in a day. What goes up…,” Altcoin Sherpa wrote. While these remain allegations, it is clear that the drop has affected investor sentiment. As the March 5 unlock date approaches, market participants may be growing cautious. Further declines could follow if sentiment continues to worsen and newly unlocked tokens are sold off swiftly.

Binance is moving to secure five additional licenses across Asia by the end of 2026.

South Korean police have arrested a series of individuals believed to be acting as hired agents committing what authorities describe as “private revenge” attacks, which have involved vandalism and threatening behavior directed at private residences. South Korean police arrest agents…

Onchain Lens monitoring indicates that as of March 4th, a whale address withdrew 4,900 ETH (valued at approximately $9.7 million) from Binance 15 minutes ago—and the whale is likely to keep accumulating.

March 4 — Binance announced today that its Savings, One-Click Crypto Buy, Instant Exchange, Margin, and Futures platforms will list the MANTRA token (MANTRA).

Bitgo has launched its Crypto-as-a-Service platform across 30 European countries to provide businesses with compliant digital asset infrastructure. Bitgo Europe GmbH is expanding its Crypto-as-a-Service (CaaS) across the European Economic Area (EEA) as of March 2026. The rollout allows European banks and fintech firms to programmatically onboard users under the Markets in Crypto-Assets (MiCA) regulatory […]

Ether reserves on trading platforms have just reached a multi-year low. In a few weeks, millions of ETH have left centralized exchanges, reducing the supply immediately available for trading. This movement occurs while the price hovers around 2,000 dollars, in a market searching for direction. Such a contraction of reserves changes the balance between liquidity, selling pressure, and accumulation dynamics. L’article Ethereum Market Sensitivity Increases After Reserve Decline est apparu en premier sur Cointribune.

March 4th — Per official announcements, Binance Alpha will be the first platform to list Block Street (BSB). Alpha trading for BSB will launch at 18:00 UTC+8 on March 4, 2026. Users with at least 245 Binance Alpha Points qualify for a first-come, first-served airdrop of 320 BSB tokens. If the reward pool isn’t fully distributed, the points threshold will automatically drop by 5 points every 5 minutes. Claiming the airdrop requires 15 Binance Alpha Points. Users must confirm receipt via the Alpha event page within 24 hours; failure to do so will result in forfeiture of airdrop eligibility.

In a memo titled “The Weekend That Changed Finance,” Bitwise Chief Investment Officer Matt Hougan says a recent geopolitical shock has revealed a fundamental shift in how financial markets operate, potentially accelerating the migration of global finance onto blockchain-based infrastructure.…

As of March 4th, HyperInsight monitoring (via https://t.me/HyperInsight) shows a Hyperliquid-tracked address tied to Continue Capital (0x3e3) holds ~$18M in US stock exposure—including NVIDIA (NVDA) long positions and call options—signaling a potential AI supply chain play. The address has flipped from profit to loss, with an unrealized loss of ~$1.12M and a return rate of -53%. Key holdings breakdown: - 5x NVDA: ~$9.16M position, avg entry $190.177, ~$620k unrealized loss (-54) - 7x Micron (MU): ~$6.27M position, avg entry $383.421, ~$250k unrealized loss (-41) - 5x SanDisk (SNDK): ~$2.75M position, avg entry $600.956, ~$250k unrealized loss (-83)

On March 4, Bloomberg reported that Standard Chartered has appointed the former co-head of JPMorgan’s Blockchain Department to lead its global payments business, as the bank aims to further modernize its cash management system. Naveen Mallela—who stepped down from his role as head of business at JPMorgan’s Kinexys last month—will officially join Standard Chartered on May 4 as head of global payments, the bank announced in a statement Wednesday.