If Bitcoin breaks through $86,000, the mainstream CEX aggregate short liquidation intensity will reach 9.12 billion

On March 3, U.S.-listed crypto fintech firm Antalpha released its 2025 annual financial report, reporting annual revenue of $79.7 million—up 68% year-over-year (YoY). Additionally, the company noted it has acquired $134 million worth of Tether Gold (XAUT) following strategic allocations to tokenized gold. As of year-end 2025, it held 39,371 XAUT tokens with $13.4 million in unrealized gains.

Apple today (March 3) unveiled its latest 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Pro models, powered by the new M5 Pro and M5 Max chips—delivering groundbreaking performance gains and advanced AI capabilities to the world’s leading professional laptops. The M5 Pro and M5 Max equip the MacBook Pro with a new CPU featuring the world’s fastest CPU cores, a next-gen GPU with a neural engine accelerator built into every core, and increased unified memory bandwidth. AI performance is up to 4x faster than the previous generation, and a remarkable 8x faster than M1-based models. Available in Deep Space Black and Silver, the new MacBook Pro will begin accepting pre-orders tomorrow (March 4) and officially launch on Wednesday, March 11.

March 3rd: Local witnesses report an attack near Iran’s Assembly of Experts in Tehran, the capital. The assembly is the body responsible for electing Iran’s Supreme Leader. (Golden Finance)

March 3, per an official announcement, Binance and Binance Wallet have officially rolled out their first batch of 7 AI Agent skills, covering wallet data and spot API functionality. The skills are as follows: - Binance Spot Skill (Binance Spot): Supports market data access, trading operations, API Key/Secret signature authentication, and is compatible with both mainnet and testnet environments; - Address Insight (Query Address Info): Generates wallet holdings, valuation, 24-hour changes, and concentration profiles to support whale/smart money monitoring and daily address reports; - Token Details (Query Token Info): Instantly provides token symbol, blockchain, price, liquidity metrics, holder count, and trading activity—ideal for initial new coin screening and content creation; - Market Rankings (Crypto Market Rank): Aggregates trends, hot searches, net inflows, trader P&L, and other metrics into rankings, delivering a priority list of "what to focus on today and why"; - Meme Rush: Tra

**March 3rd Update** Tokenized stocks and ETFs on Binance have been approved by the Abu Dhabi Global Market (ADGM) regulator. Approved investment targets include Amazon, Alphabet, Apple, Circle, Meta, Microsoft, Nvidia, Tesla, and a tokenized version of the Invesco QQQ ETF—all aimed at non-U.S. markets. Ondo Finance notes this is Abu Dhabi’s first approval of tokenized securities trading under its regulatory framework, allowing UAE financial institutions, intermediaries, and counterparties to trade the tokenized stock offerings. Ondo Finance CEO Ian de Bode stated: “By listing Ondo’s tokenized stocks for trading on Binance, we’re expanding investment access for billions of investors worldwide.”

**March 3:** Amid rising geopolitical tensions in the Middle East, concerns over climbing oil prices have amplified potential inflation risks and dimmed expectations for Federal Reserve rate cuts. CME’s FedWatch Tool shows the probability of a 25-basis-point (bp) rate cut at the Fed’s March meeting is just 2.7%, while the chance rates will hold steady stands at 88%. For the period through April, the probability of the Fed keeping rates unchanged is 87.3%, with a 12.5% chance of a cumulative 25-bp cut and a 0.2% probability of a cumulative 50-bp cut. The Fed’s next two FOMC meetings are scheduled for March 18 and April 29.