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.

On March 1, 2026, XRP community member WrathofKahneman highlighted a GitHub proposal for an XRP Ledger options sidechain after XRPL Labs engineer Denis Angell teased it as "Something big." The plan outlines American-style options, up to 200x leveraged margin trading and a trustless bridge secured by XRPL validators, plus native webAuthn/FIDO2 passkey support for authentication.

Solana led top‑10 cryptocurrencies with an 11% rebound, hitting an intraday high of $88.89 as markets recovered following a weekend sell‑off. By Sunday morning the crypto market added $32 billion after shedding about $128 billion previously, while SOL was last up 9.22% at $85.30 and down 0.41% week‑on‑week.

On February 28, 2026, XRP Ledger developer and Xaman founder Wietse Wind warned XRP wallet users about scams using fake NFT "passes" and imitation Xaman domains to drain funds. He urged holders to cancel unsolicited offers, avoid interacting with suspicious NFTs and never share wallet secrets or sign unclear transactions.

On February 27, 2026, Peter Schiff said gold closed up $94 at $5,278 and silver at $93.66, arguing Bitcoin is down 27% year to date and that the divergence may persist through 2026. On Saturday, Bitcoin slid to a $63,019 low and was down 2.78% at $64,044. Fidelity's Jurrien Timmer highlighted $60,000–$70,000 as a likely consolidation range with $60,000 as key support.

Shiba Inu briefly touched $0.00000555 before dropping to an intraday low of $0.00000544 amid a broader crypto sell-off. SHIB later traded around $0.00000543, down 6.43% over 24 hours and 16.03% over seven days, as $515 million in crypto positions were liquidated. Market sentiment remains fragile, with technicals showing oversold conditions and key resistance levels ahead at $0.000007 and $0.00000949.

Ledger CTO Charles Guillemet warned that Elliptic Curve Cryptography underpinning blockchain keys could be compromised by sufficiently powerful quantum computers, and said preparation must begin well before such capability arrives. On February 27, 2026, he described post quantum experiments inside secure elements, while experts caution that about seven million BTC, including roughly one million linked to Satoshi Nakamoto, could be exposed.

On February 24, 2026, the XRP Ledger Foundation announced rippled v3.1.1, which disables the Batch and fixBatchInnerSigs amendments due to a severe bug and advises validators to acknowledge new GPG keys as Ripple rotates its signing key. A devnet reset is scheduled for March 3, 2026, while mainnet and other XRPL-related networks will continue operating normally.

In the week just concluded, the Shiba Inu team launched the SOU (Shib Owes You) NFT initiative to help users affected by last September's Shibarium hack. Following this, Shibarium-focused account Susbarium and team member Lucie warned that scammers are creating fake SOU portals and phishing links to drain wallets. Users are being reminded that SOU NFTs will not be airdropped and can only be claimed via the official SHIB website, and that they should avoid suspicious links and never share private keys or seed phrases.