USELESS Coin climbed over 17% in the past 24 hours, per TradingView, while inflows from top PnL traders, whales, and new wallets accelerated, according to Nansen AI. Price action tested the $0.036 support and $0.045 resistance, with MACD signaling growing seller momentum and CHOP at 49.26 hinting at a fading trend. A break above $0.045 could target $0.055, while sub-$0.036 risks deeper losses.

World Liberty Financial has outlined a WLFI Governance Staking System that requires unlocked WLFI holders to stake for at least 180 days to gain voting rights and access to rewards. The framework adds Node and Super Node tiers starting at 10 million and 50 million WLFI, linking them to OTC USD1 conversion, partnership access, and volume-based incentives. The roadmap includes three rollout phases, while a separate memorandum of understanding with Pakistan targets technical collaboration on integrating the USD1 stablecoin into regulated digital payments.

According to Lookonchain, Vitalik Buterin appears to have completed an Ethereum selling plan that began on February 2, unloading 19,326 ETH for $39.36 million at an average of $2,037. With ETH above $2,000, traders say a push over $2,100 could confirm a reversal toward $2,400 if $1,900–$1,950 support holds, while CryptoQuant notes rising accumulation.

On Saturday, February 28, 2026, reports of coordinated U.S.-Israel strikes in Iran jolted crypto markets. Bitcoin slid from $65,572 to $63,176 in about an hour, with over $100 million in long liquidations per The Kobeissi Letter, then rebounded, touching a $68,043 intraday high before easing to around $66,310.

Virtuals Protocol (VIRTUAL) is trading near $0.70 on the 4‑hour chart after a rebound from $0.64, compressing beneath the $0.70–$0.72 barrier. Momentum and participation have increased, and a 4‑hour close above $0.7416 would keep focus on $0.84–$0.90, while rejection leaves $0.65 and $0.62 as nearby supports.

On March 1, 2026, XRP community member WrathofKahneman highlighted a GitHub proposal for an XRP Ledger options sidechain after XRPL Labs engineer Denis Angell teased it as "Something big." The plan outlines American-style options, up to 200x leveraged margin trading and a trustless bridge secured by XRPL validators, plus native webAuthn/FIDO2 passkey support for authentication.

JPMorgan analysts, led by Nikolaos Panigirtzoglou, argued in a recent report that potential mid-year approval of U.S. crypto market structure legislation, commonly called the CLARITY Act, could become a key tailwind for digital asset markets in the second half of the year. They highlighted eight main provisions, including clearer token classifications, fundraising relief for new projects, a path for some assets to shift from securities to commodities oversight, regulatory clarity for intermediaries, and tax and tokenization measures. The analysts maintained a constructive long-term view on crypto and reiterated a bitcoin price target of $266,000, while bitcoin was trading near $65,425 at the time of writing.

In an X post Sunday, Vitalik Buterin outlined two execution-layer changes for Ethereum: moving to a binary state tree (EIP-7864) and, over time, replacing the EVM with RISC-V. He said these components account for more than 80% of proving bottlenecks. The state-tree proposal has been in draft since January 2025, while the VM path is more speculative and faced a November 2025 rebuttal from Offchain Labs favoring WASM.