A whale urgently sells 10,000 ETH to repay its debt on Aave

On March 3, Andrei Grachev—partner at DWF Labs—tweeted: “Last month, we stacked up a bunch of shitcoins, meme coins, Bitcoin, and BNB. Wait for the market to rebound, and you’ll see an unprecedented market frenzy.”

**March 3rd** Core Scientific—a Nasdaq-listed (ticker: CORZ) Bitcoin mining firm—plans to sell roughly 2,500 of its bitcoins in Q1 2026. The move is aimed at boosting liquidity and funding capital expenditures for its expanding AI hash rate hosting business. In its annual report filed Monday, the company noted the "majority" of the planned sale is currently expected in the first quarter, but timing and volume will depend on market conditions and liquidity needs (with adjustments possible). As of December 31, 2025, Core Scientific held 2,537 bitcoins. (Source: TheEnergyMag)

March 3 — According to sources, market volatility spurred by the U.S.-Iran conflict has boosted the chance the Bank of Japan will hold off on a rate hike later this month. (Xinhua)

March 3rd — Per HyperInsight monitoring data, a whale wallet starting with 0xf4b has executed its first on-chain commodity transaction targeting WTI crude oil futures in the past half-hour. The whale opened a 20x leveraged short position on CL (WTI Crude Oil Perpetual Contract) with a $5.09 million position size. Its average entry price is $72.5, and the liquidation price is set at $76.5. As a critical chokepoint for global energy transport, the Strait of Hormuz’s real-time status is a key driver of oil prices. Earlier today, an Iranian source claimed the strait had been fully closed, prompting WTI crude to briefly spike to ~$73. The U.S. subsequently issued a public response, noting monitoring indicates normal navigation in the strait and no signs of a physical blockade. This address holder is betting the U.S. statement will hold, triggering a potential price retracement. However, if another major maritime incident occurs or the Iranian claim is confirmed later, the address c

March 3rd: The open-source AI agent framework OpenClaw has released version v2026.3.2. This update includes multiple new features, security improvements, over 150 bug fixes, and contributions from 93 contributors. ### Key New Features - A native PDF analysis tool supporting Anthropic and Google as processing backends, with configurable extraction fallback strategies and page/size limits. - The SecretRef credential reference mechanism expanded to 64 targets (covering the full runtime collector, planning, execution, and audit processes; unresolved references now throw immediate errors on active interfaces). - A new STT (Speech-to-Text) API for transcribing audio files via configured service providers. - Telegram message streaming now defaults to "partial" mode to enable real-time previews. - The provider directory adds the MiniMax-M2.5-highspeed model. ### Breaking Changes (4 Total) 1. Newly installed default tool configurations have shifted from a broad programming tools

**Claude Outage Update: Anthropic Responds to Unprecedented Demand (March 3)** Anthropic’s AI assistant Claude experienced widespread service disruptions on March 2 and 3. At 6:49 a.m. EST on March 2, Anthropic announced it was investigating an **elevated error rate** impacting claude.ai, its mobile app, Claude Opus 4.6, Claude Console, and Claude Code. Downdetector data showed peak disruption reports exceeded 2,000 users. Post-restoration, the team noted it was “working to keep up with Claude’s surging recent demand.” On March 3 at 03:15 UTC, the official status page again flagged elevated error rates for claude.ai, Cowork, the Anthropic platform, and Claude Code—with investigations ongoing as of 04:43 UTC. The Claude API (api.anthropic.com) and Claude for Government remained unaffected; consumer-facing services bore the brunt of the outages. Anthropic attributed the disruptions to **unprecedented demand**: - Free user growth has topped 60% since January 2024 - Paid su