Bitcoin climbed to $71,928, marking its strongest level in nearly a month before easing to around $71,343 with a 5.62% daily gain. After sliding to $63,019 on Saturday, the rebound was supported by more than $680 million of inflows into U.S. spot Bitcoin ETFs on Monday and Tuesday. Tether CEO Paolo Ardoino praised the green price action, while longtime critic Peter Schiff described the move above $71,000 as a "head fake" and reiterated his preference for gold and silver.

Kraken’s banking subsidiary, Kraken Financial, has obtained a limited-purpose master account from the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas, becoming the first crypto-linked firm with this type of access. The account lets Kraken connect directly to core Fed payment rails and reduce dependence on intermediary banks, although it does not include commercial-bank privileges such as interest on reserves or Fed lending facilities. The move is seen as a key infrastructure milestone for integrating digital asset businesses into the traditional US dollar payments system and broader financial markets.

According to analyst Lisa N Edwards, Bitcoin's historical pattern memory and Fibonacci retracement behavior suggest this cycle may not bottom until prices drop below $40,000. Her chart-based study compares past cycle lows at the 0.786 and 0.86 retracement levels with the current structure, outlining potential downside zones between roughly $39,000 and $31,000 if the assumed October 2025 peak holds as the true high. Deeper targets such as a return to $20,000 are viewed in this framework as a break from Bitcoin's prior cycle dynamics rather than a continuation of the established pattern.

Pseudonymous trader Trader Tardigrade projects that Dogecoin could climb to a price range between $1.60 and $2.20 in 2026, based on a recurring bullish breakdown pattern on the monthly chart. To reach this zone from its current capitalization of $15.68 billion, DOGE would need to attract enough inflows to push its market value close to $230 billion, a scenario some observers view as difficult given Ethereum's roughly $250 billion market cap.

SoFi Technologies' share price closed at $18.61 on March 3, 2026, after announcing an expanded partnership that will allow its SoFiUSD stablecoin to be used as a settlement option on Mastercard's global payments network. The company also disclosed that CEO Anthony Noto purchased roughly $1 million of SOFI stock in the open market, coinciding with a premarket rise to $19.23 on March 4. SoFiUSD, issued by SoFi Bank, N.A., is fully cash-reserved and is expected to support around-the-clock settlement for SoFi's card transactions.

Bitcoin's long-term price pattern, based on a nine-year rising channel, remains intact and now points to a key support region near $60,000. A chart shared on March 4 by Trader Tardigrade shows BTC repeatedly moving between the channel's boundaries since 2017, with past rebounds from the lower band leading to strong rallies. With Bitcoin recently trading around $71,368.32 and already pushing above the channel again, the model sketches a potential overshoot range between about $170,000 and $600,000, though such projections rely on historical behavior and are not guaranteed.

On Wednesday, March 4, 2026, Ethereum's price climbed more than 3% to a local high near $2,090 before trading around $2,041, while its market capitalization stood at roughly $245.9 billion. The move followed a broader crypto rebound led by Bitcoin after a policy push related to stablecoin yields, with open interest and funding rates signaling renewed bullish sentiment. A trading expert noted that a break above $2,140 could open the way toward $2,500, while another rejection might send ETH closer to $1,820 amid recent net outflows from U.S. spot ETH ETFs.

Bitcoin briefly advanced to a one-month peak near $72,000 after earlier falling below $64,000 during the escalating conflict involving the USA, Israel, and Iran. Traders now debate whether a sustained move above $70,000–$71,500 could extend the rally toward $74,000–$80,000 or if failure to hold that area might send BTC back to the $65,000–$66,000 support.