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March 4 — Binance announced today that its Savings, One-Click Crypto Buy, Instant Exchange, Margin, and Futures platforms will list the MANTRA token (MANTRA).

Onchain Lens monitoring indicates that as of March 4th, a whale address withdrew 4,900 ETH (valued at approximately $9.7 million) from Binance 15 minutes ago—and the whale is likely to keep accumulating.

March 4th — Per official announcements, Binance Alpha will be the first platform to list Block Street (BSB). Alpha trading for BSB will launch at 18:00 UTC+8 on March 4, 2026. Users with at least 245 Binance Alpha Points qualify for a first-come, first-served airdrop of 320 BSB tokens. If the reward pool isn’t fully distributed, the points threshold will automatically drop by 5 points every 5 minutes. Claiming the airdrop requires 15 Binance Alpha Points. Users must confirm receipt via the Alpha event page within 24 hours; failure to do so will result in forfeiture of airdrop eligibility.

On March 4, Bloomberg reported that Standard Chartered has appointed the former co-head of JPMorgan’s Blockchain Department to lead its global payments business, as the bank aims to further modernize its cash management system. Naveen Mallela—who stepped down from his role as head of business at JPMorgan’s Kinexys last month—will officially join Standard Chartered on May 4 as head of global payments, the bank announced in a statement Wednesday.

As of March 4th, HyperInsight monitoring (via https://t.me/HyperInsight) shows a Hyperliquid-tracked address tied to Continue Capital (0x3e3) holds ~$18M in US stock exposure—including NVIDIA (NVDA) long positions and call options—signaling a potential AI supply chain play. The address has flipped from profit to loss, with an unrealized loss of ~$1.12M and a return rate of -53%. Key holdings breakdown: - 5x NVDA: ~$9.16M position, avg entry $190.177, ~$620k unrealized loss (-54) - 7x Micron (MU): ~$6.27M position, avg entry $383.421, ~$250k unrealized loss (-41) - 5x SanDisk (SNDK): ~$2.75M position, avg entry $600.956, ~$250k unrealized loss (-83)

On March 4, TKResearch Trading cited Nansen data in a social media post, noting suspected whale accumulation of CHZ on-chain ahead of the World Cup (June). CHZ’s current total circulating supply stands at 10.15 billion, with 5.63 billion held in Chiliz wallets and cross-chain bridges, 1.37 billion remaining on exchanges, and an estimated actual circulating supply of ~3.15 billion. Since December 11, exchanges have seen a cumulative net outflow of 150 million CHZ (dropping from 1.52 billion to 1.37 billion). Between December 11 and 14, nine new addresses purchased 384 million CHZ on Coinbase at an average price of ~$0.033 per token. CHZ later doubled to $0.06, but these addresses did not distribute holdings amid the surge—instead, they continued accumulating ~100 million more tokens. These large holders now collectively hold 384 million CHZ, accounting for ~28% of exchanges’ total reserves and ~13% of the circulating supply.