Bitcoin recently climbed to a four-week high after rebounding 22% from a local bottom near $60,000, but derivatives pricing and on-chain data show traders still prefer downside protection. About 43% of the circulating supply is at a loss and major corporate holders face an average cost basis around $76,000, creating psychological and structural resistance below the prior $78,700 monthly close. Weak miner profitability and growing AI-related energy competition are adding further selling pressure that could slow any move higher.

Western Union has entered into a partnership with Crossmint to support the launch of its USDPT stablecoin and Digital Asset Network on the Solana blockchain. The collaboration will integrate Crossmint's wallet and payment APIs with Western Union's infrastructure so fintech platforms can move funds via USDPT and tap into Western Union's global payout network.

Bitcoin briefly moved back above $74,000 on Wednesday as a broad crypto market rebound pushed BTC up about 8% in 24 hours and lifted ether more than 9%. Dogecoin and Zcash led gains among large-cap tokens, while shares of Coinbase climbed roughly 15% and Gemini jumped about 34% alongside the move.

Israel's Finance Ministry estimates that restrictions linked to the conflict with Iran are costing the economy 9.4 billion shekels, or about $2.93 billion, each week, with larger losses expected from the following week. While officials push to ease Home Front Command rules to cut the damage, U.S. equities are rising, oil has climbed above $82 a barrel, and volatility gauges are slipping. Israel's own stock market and currency have strengthened, even as Goldman Sachs cautions that investors may not have fully accounted for the economic fallout.

GMX’s native token on Arbitrum is rallying after the project’s DAO acknowledged that two years of buybacks had limited impact and approved a new strategy. The plan includes pulling 600,000 GMX from external DEX liquidity, redirecting staking rewards to the treasury from March 4, and locking payouts until the token trades above $90. The shift comes amid broader industry doubts about buybacks, highlighted by Jupiter’s $70 million JUP repurchases that failed to prevent a steep price decline.

On March 3, 2026, TCS Blockchain and PayPal announced the integration of PayPal USD (PYUSD) into a freight payment system aimed at shortening trucking payment cycles that can stretch from 30 to 180 days. The solution routes digital invoices through TCS utility tokens and the INX-Republic exchange into PYUSD, enabling same-day settlements and potentially cutting costs by up to 90% compared with traditional invoicing and factoring. TCS Blockchain expects the platform to process over $1 billion in freight invoices in 2026, in a market where truckers can lose more than 30% of net revenue to early payment services.

Bitcoin rose about 8% on Wednesday to trade above $73,000, after spending roughly three weeks capped in the $64,000–$70,000 range. Analysts say profit-taking near $70,000 must ease and support around the 200-week EMA at $68,000 and the $70,000 zone must hold for BTC to target the next resistance near $75,000.

Analytics firm Santiment reports that social media discussions about "altseason" have recently fallen to extremely low levels, while Dogecoin is trading around $0.093. Over the past two years, high altseason social volume has often aligned with local tops for DOGE, whereas muted interest has tended to mark local bottoms. With the latest drop in this sentiment metric, Dogecoin could be positioned for a rebound, although Santiment cautions it should not be treated as a precise trading signal.