Since the US-Iran conflict, silver has experienced a significant retracement of approximately 18% from its high, while gold has retraced about 5.3%.

March 5th: Ethereum has fallen below $2100, currently trading at $2099.7 per HTX market data.

March 5th: Bitcoin briefly fell below $72,000 per HTX market data, last trading at $71,784.

**March 5 Update** Per Coinbob Popular Address Monitoring, a whale with an address starting with 0xbcd holds the largest CRCL (Circle’s mapped contract) long position on Hyperliquid: a 10x leveraged position worth $2.2M, with an average entry price of $87.1. The whale also holds 13 positions across crypto and on-chain stocks, totaling $21.6M in size. The CRCL position was opened Feb 27—during a pullback after Circle’s on-chain stock first rallied from $62 to $90—with the whale adding to longs in the $84-$89 range. Per Hyperliquid data, Circle’s on-chain stock surged again from ~$80 on March 2, hitting a high of $106; it currently trades at $105. The whale has captured the second leg of the rally, with $370K in unrealized profit (23%). Separately, in the past hour, a trader with an address starting with 0x467 opened a 10x leveraged CRCL long at an average price of $104, with a $1.14M position size. Its liquidation range is narrow, at $98.8.

On March 5, a member of Iran’s Assembly of Experts stated that the country’s new Supreme Leader has been chosen and will be “announced soon.” Separately, multiple Iranian media outlets cited an Iranian officer the same day reporting that Iran has not closed the Strait of Hormuz. The officer noted that Iran adheres to international agreements in handling passing vessels and “only intercepts warships posing as commercial vessels.”

March 5th: Trading for Opinion (OPN) will launch on Binance Alpha at 19:00 UTC+8 on March 5, 2026, per official sources. Eligible users (holding at least 235 Alpha Points) can claim 100 OPN tokens via the Alpha event page. The airdrop uses a "decreasing points" model: - 30 Alpha Points required for claims in the first minute of the event - Required points drop by 5 each subsequent minute (minimum 10 points) Users must confirm their claim on the event page within 24 hours; unconfirmed claims will be forfeited.

On March 5th, Onchain Lens monitoring shows that 15 hours ago, the World Liberty Fi team deposited 16.71 million WLFI tokens (valued at $1.74 million) into OKX, and may transfer additional tokens to centralized exchanges.