On March 4, 2026, DeFi trader Sillytuna reported losing over $24 million in AUSD and other assets after a physical attack and coercion to transfer funds. The stolen stablecoins and BTC are now parked across several Ethereum and Bitcoin addresses, with parts bridged to Arbitrum, while investigators monitor movements. A 10% bounty has been offered for any returned funds, as protocols debate blacklisting policies instead of freezing assets outright.

NVIDIA (NVDA) shares moved higher on March 4, 2026, closing at $183.04, a gain of 1.66% for the session. Trading activity was notably heavy, with more than 175 million shares changing hands, reflecting renewed investor interest following the company’s recent earnings report.

On March 5, 2026, Bitget introduced a major redesign of its trading interface that separates cryptocurrency markets from traditional financial products such as stocks, commodities, forex, CFDs and tokenized equities. The exchange now highlights TradFi assets as an independent category alongside crypto, reflecting the growing overlap between the roughly $2.4 trillion digital asset market and nearly $900 trillion in traditional finance. The move is part of Bitget's Universal Exchange strategy to support cross-asset trading on crypto-native infrastructure.

Over the last 24 hours, Google researchers detailed a powerful iPhone exploit kit dubbed Coruna that threatens crypto wallet seed phrases on older iOS versions. In parallel, Morgan Stanley moved toward a Bitcoin trust product with Coinbase and BNY Mellon, Zerohash applied for a U.S. National Trust Bank Charter, a16z targeted around $2 billion for a new crypto fund, and Tether backed Eight Sleep at a $1.5 billion valuation.

Shares of Palantir Technologies Inc. extended their upward momentum this week, closing 4.06% higher at $153.19 on March 4 as trading volume surged to roughly 56–60 million shares, well above the company’s recent daily average. The rally places Palantir among the most actively traded AI-related stocks in the U.S. market, reflecting renewed investor interest in companies tied to artificial intelligence, defense technology, and data analytics infrastructure.

Crypto-linked equities rallied on Wednesday, with treasury firm Strategy up more than 10%, Coinbase gaining over 14%, Hut 8 climbing 13.89% and American Bitcoin Corp rising 11.65%. Over the same 24-hour period, Bitcoin advanced around 7.6% to trade near $72,866 and Ether increased more than 8.3% to about $2,132, as investors reacted to pro-crypto remarks from Donald Trump and ongoing regulatory moves in the United States.

Altcoin mentions on social media have fallen to their lowest level in two years, with Santiment's data showing altcoin social dominance at 33 for the week ended Feb. 27, far below the July 2025 peak of 750. Google Trends also shows the global search score for "altcoins" at 4 out of 100 near the end of February, while Bitcoin has rallied 7.51% in the past 24 hours and now commands more investor attention. Santiment views the depressed altcoin interest as a potential bullish signal, and trader Michaël van de Poppe expects altcoins to gain momentum once Bitcoin's rally slows.

Andreessen Horowitz's crypto arm is reportedly raising a fifth dedicated digital-asset fund of around $2 billion with an expected close by mid-2026, a smaller vehicle than its $4.5 billion fund from 2022. The venture firm is keeping fundraising cycles shorter during a deep market drawdown, while also signaling parallel interest in AI, robotics and other emerging technologies.