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Per Chainalysis, investment fund Gamma Fund (address: gammafund.eth) withdrew 9,000 ETH worth approximately $17.86 million from Binance 5 hours ago, at an average price of about $1,984.

**Binance Alert: Ethereum (ETH) Wallet Maintenance Scheduled** Per an official announcement, Binance will perform wallet maintenance on the Ethereum (ETH) network on **March 4, 2026, at 14:00 UTC+8**. To facilitate this maintenance, Binance will pause ETH deposits and withdrawals commencing at **13:55 UTC+8 on March 4, 2026**. The maintenance is anticipated to last 1 hour, with deposit and withdrawal services resuming automatically once the work concludes.

March 4th — Per Onchain Lens monitoring, the Pudgy Penguins team transferred 4.5 billion PENGU tokens (valued at $3.12 million) to Binance 7 hours ago.

**March 4: Vitalik Calls for 'Sanctuary Tech' Ecosystem Beyond Ethereum Finance** Vitalik wrote in a post on March 4 that amid growing government and corporate oversight, Ethereum — despite prioritizing freedom and privacy — has failed to meaningfully enhance users’ real-world freedom and privacy. He called for building a "sanctuary tech" ecosystem: open-source tools that boost resilience against external pressures, stressing Ethereum shouldn’t be confined to finance. Vitalik noted: "Cryptocurrencies shouldn’t aim to be the next Apple or Google. Instead, we need to build our own 'sanctuary tech ecosystem' — a shared, ownerless digital space that does more than just enable open finance. We need to actively develop a full-stack ecosystem: expanding upward to wallets and app layers (including AI as an interface) and downward to operating systems, hardware, and even physical/biometric security layers."

On March 4th, Max Schwarzer—OpenAI’s lead researcher for inference models—announced his departure from OpenAI and move to Anthropic in a post on X. Schwarzer was an early contributor to OpenAI’s o1 inference model. He led post-training for o1 and o3, and over the past year, he has headed the entire post-training team, delivering GPT-5, 5.1, 5.2, and 5.3-Codex. Schwarzer stated that upon joining Anthropic, he will focus on reinforcement learning research.

**March 4 — Onchain Lens data indicates Circle minted 1 billion USDC on Solana over the past 10 hours.** **Cumulatively, the firm has minted 23.75 billion USDC on the Solana blockchain since 2026.**