RIVER logged a roughly 34% price surge within 24 hours, emerging as the top gainer in the crypto market while technical indicators like MACD and RSI signaled solid upward momentum. However, bullish positioning slid from 82% to 58% and a nearby resistance zone now poses a risk of a downturn that could see prices revisit the $12.24 area.

Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse has projected that as much as $10 trillion in institutional capital could move through the XRP Ledger by 2030, driven by money-market funds, CBDCs and tokenization. XRP has climbed to $1.45 with a 7% daily gain, while traders watch whether it can break the $1.50 resistance as short-position liquidations increase.

Aerodrome Finance's AERO token climbed about 12.68%, while trading volume hovered near $18 million and Bitcoin moved above $70,000. The price has been trending within an ascending channel since early February, with upside targets around $0.40 if bullish momentum and on-chain accumulation from whales, institutions, and retailers persist.

In the current cycle, Bitcoin’s dominance has risen by 1.75% in under 72 hours while 38% of altcoins trade close to their all-time lows, signaling a sharp divergence in market flows. This pattern, combined with rock-bottom social volume for altcoins and a planned $16 billion liquidity injection by the Federal Reserve this week, may set up conditions for a broader crypto rotation after Bitcoin’s latest move.

XRP is testing the 200 EMA while holding the lower boundary of a multi‑month descending channel, creating a compressed setup around critical resistance. Analysts highlight that a weekly close above the 200 EMA and $1.55 could confirm a bullish shift, with $2.20 as the next key upside target. Failure to clear these levels may instead trigger a move toward supports around $1.26 and possibly the $0.95–$0.85 area.

On March 2, 2026, the Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation added Hidden Road Partners CIV US LLC, now operating as Ripple Prime, to the National Securities Clearing Corporation Market Participant Identifiers directory. The prime brokerage had previously been acquired by Ripple for $1.25 billion after serving over 300 institutional clients and processing about $3 trillion in annual financing trades. This NSCC listing enables Ripple Prime to handle over-the-counter transactions through a centralized clearing system and has been interpreted by XRP holders as a sign that Ripple is embedding itself in traditional market infrastructure.

GMX’s native token on Arbitrum is rallying after the project’s DAO acknowledged that two years of buybacks had limited impact and approved a new strategy. The plan includes pulling 600,000 GMX from external DEX liquidity, redirecting staking rewards to the treasury from March 4, and locking payouts until the token trades above $90. The shift comes amid broader industry doubts about buybacks, highlighted by Jupiter’s $70 million JUP repurchases that failed to prevent a steep price decline.

Analytics firm Santiment reports that social media discussions about "altseason" have recently fallen to extremely low levels, while Dogecoin is trading around $0.093. Over the past two years, high altseason social volume has often aligned with local tops for DOGE, whereas muted interest has tended to mark local bottoms. With the latest drop in this sentiment metric, Dogecoin could be positioned for a rebound, although Santiment cautions it should not be treated as a precise trading signal.