Iran: Ready for a Long Battle

Market sources report Dubai Airport will resume limited flights starting March 2.

March 2nd — Blockchain analytics firm TRM Labs’ latest report finds artificial intelligence is deeply reshaping digital financial crime. By 2025, annual illicit cryptocurrency flows could hit $158 billion, with AI-driven fraud cases surging ~500% year-over-year. The report notes autonomous AI agents can automatically split funds, select cross-chain bridges, and trade on decentralized platforms in seconds—slashing money laundering timeframes and rendering traditional monitoring methods ineffective. TRM Labs warns AI has not created new criminal motivations, but it has drastically lowered barriers to large-scale evasion. Attackers can launch attacks via malicious prompt injection, data tampering, or key hijacking—even building dedicated agents to evade sanctions. Meanwhile, well-intentioned agents chasing high returns may funnel funds to risky entities, triggering compliance crises. The report stresses accountability remains a challenge: AI lacks legal personality, shifting resp

March 2 — Akave, a decentralized enterprise cloud infrastructure firm, has closed a $6.65 million funding round led by Protocol Labs, No Limit Holdings, Blockchange, Lightshift, Blockchain Builders Fund, Big Brain Holdings, the Avalanche Foundation and the Filecoin Foundation. Akave’s decentralized cloud storage platform, Akave Cloud, is built on the Avalanche L1 blockchain and targets an S3-compatible decentralized storage solution for AI applications. The platform offers on-chain verifiability, programmable access controls, and no data egress fees. It integrates with tools like Snowflake and Apache Iceberg, plus an option to long-term archive data to the Filecoin network.

On March 2, official sources confirm that Binance Alpha will list Opinion (OPN) on March 5. Once trading goes live, eligible users can claim airdrops via Binance Alpha Points on the Alpha event page.

March 2 — BitMine announced Thursday that its total holdings of cryptocurrencies, cash, and high-risk, high-return investment projects are valued at $9.9 billion, per official sources. As of 2:00 PM ET on March 1, 2026, the company’s holdings include: - 4,473,587 ETH - 195 BTC - $200 million in Beast Industries equity - $14 million in Eightco Holdings equity - $868 million in cash BitMine’s ETH holdings represent 3.71% of the total ETH supply. BitMine CEO Thomas “Tom” Lee noted: “As we move past the latter stages of the ‘mini crypto winter,’ we’re steadily executing our Ethereum-focused financial strategy. Geopolitical uncertainty has escalated in recent days — the U.S. has launched military action against Iran, and its impact will show up in financial and digital asset markets in the coming weeks. We’re continuing to accumulate ETH steadily and optimize returns on our holdings.” Lee added that BitMine boosted its ETH holdings by 50,928 tokens last week. “We see t

**March 2nd – Official Tokenomics for Opinion (OPN) Token Unveiled** The full allocation and unlocking rules for the Opinion (OPN) token have been released, with key details below: - **Airdrop**: 23.5% of total supply. 3.5% unlocked at TGE (Token Generation Event); remaining tokens locked for 7 months. - **Investors**: 23% total. 0% unlocked at TGE; 24-month linear unlock after a 12-month lockup period. - **Team & Advisors**: 19.5% total. 0% unlocked at TGE; 24-month linear unlock following a 12-month lockup. - **Foundation**: 12% total. 1% unlocked at TGE; 12-month linear unlock after a 6-month lockup. - **Ecosystem & Incentives**: 11.1% initial allocation. 5.65% unlocked at TGE; remaining tokens locked for 36 months. *Key notes*: - 3.5% of this segment is reallocated to airdrop recipients who lock OPN for varying durations post-initial airdrop (tied to locked amount, committed lockup term, and OPN performance). - An additional 2.15% funds retroactive incentives