American Bitcoin announces purchase of 11,298 ASIC miners, total hash rate capacity to increase by approximately 12%

March 3 — Per Fortune, Bridge (the Stripe-acquired crypto startup) and Visa plan to expand their stablecoin-backed card business to 100 countries across Europe, Asia, and Africa by 2025. The service is currently available in 18 countries, letting users pay at any Visa-accepting merchant using funds from their crypto wallets. Bridge co-founder and CEO Zach Abrams noted that Visa’s robust merchant network—built over 40 years of operation—remains highly valuable in the stablecoin space. Separately, Bridge will join Visa’s ongoing pilot programs to test whether stablecoins can be used on blockchain for payment settlements, replacing traditional bank transfers.

On March 3rd, cryptocurrency custody provider BitGo announced it will offer "Crypto as a Service" (CaaS) in the European Economic Area (EEA) via its European subsidiary, BitGo Europe GmbH. The firm secured a license from Germany’s Federal Financial Supervisory Authority (BaFin) under the EU’s Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation (MiCA) exactly one year ago.

March 3rd marked the launch of the official Weibo account for OpenClaw, an open-source AI project. In its debut post, the team stated: “OpenClaw’s mission is to let everyone unlock AI’s infinite power. Sincere thanks to all developers and netizens for your support—your stars and feedback drive our continuous iteration. We’ll share OpenClaw’s technical updates here moving forward. Stay tuned; code never stops!” Today, OpenClaw has racked up over 250,000 GitHub stars, outpacing React’s ~243,000. This makes it the most-starred active software project on GitHub.

On March 3, following the release of the Neo Foundation’s 2025 fiscal year financial report, co-founders Erik Zhang and Da Hongfei again expressed conflicting views. Da Hongfei stated, “Over the past 12 years, we’ve navigated market cycles, structural shifts, and regulatory changes while evolving continuously. The report clearly outlines our current standing and future direction. Moving forward, clarity and execution will be key to breakthroughs.” Zhang raised doubts about the report, saying, “I only see Neo asset addresses disclosed by contributor Ricardo Prado—no addresses for non-Neo assets were shared. The individual line items in the financial statements cannot be verified. Moreover, it must be emphasized that the size of non-nominal-digit assets held by the Neo Foundation is highly abnormal. Why did the ultimate revenue from the Foundation’s external investments flow to the private firm NGD? This is blatant embezzlement of public funds.” For more details, refer to BlockB

On March 3rd, Trump said on Truth Social that Iran’s air defense systems, air force, navy and leadership are no more. They want to negotiate—but it’s too late!

March 3: Per OnchainLens data, the whale wallet "pension-usdt.eth" opened a 3x leveraged long position worth ~$67.57 million using 1,000 BTC, entering at $67,522.3. Across its two addresses, the whale has already racked up over $27.28 million in total profits prior to this latest trade.