Crypto News. March 3, 2026

MicroStrategy acquired additional 3,015 BTC at ~$67,700 per BTC, total holdings now at 720,737 BTC.

Bitmine acquired an additional 50,928 ETH, increasing its total Ethereum holdings to 4,473,587 ETH.

Dune’s Model Context Protocol (MCP) is now live, allowing direct integration with Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, and other AI tools.

Qivalis, a consortium of 12 major EU banks, is in talks with crypto exchanges for a euro-pegged stablecoin launch in H2 2026.

Chainlink enabled cbBTC bridging from Base to Monad

Pumpfun expands to add support for more tokens and launchpad beyond memes

Vitalik warned Ethereum’s ePBS upgrade may centralize block-building, proposes FOCIL and encrypted mempools to limit censorship and MEV.

Nasdaq filed with the SEC to launch a binary yes-or-no contracts on the Nasdaq 100, mirroring prediction markets

CFTC named David Miller to lead enforcement amid expanded crypto oversight