Archie Dutton
Crypto Reporter & DeFi Specialist
Archie Dutton covers decentralized finance, Layer 1 systems, and new blockchain tech for Crypto News Navigator. He's seen the crypto space through different market phases. His focus is on protocol analysis, governance ideas, and how traditional finance and on-chain systems meet. His work stresses being technically correct and using original research.
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Terra Classic Burns 90 Billion LUNC and the Math Still Doesn't Add Up
If you asked most holders what they thought was a fair sentiment, it may sound something like this: "Burn enough tokens to decrease supply over time, and eventually luna classic price will rebound." Many members of the community have tried to achieve this by burning almost 90 billion LUNC tokens. The price is still around $0.00004400. Here's why the mathematics of deflationary token burns fail to support the recovery thesis.
Archie DuttonApr 1, 2026
Oasis Network Price Just Hit a Critical Inflection Point
Oasis Network price is one of those that tends to retrace and retest the same round number support and resistance levels repeatedly. The native token of the privacy Layer-1 blockchain has been ranging around $0.0177, up 39% year-to-date. The question isn't if ROSE will break above $0.0209. It's whether this current structure resembles accumulation periods before the token's largest historical rallies.
Archie DuttonApr 1, 2026
Four Ways MYX Finance Could Fit Your 2026 DeFi Strategy
Somewhere between Consensys's February fundraising announcement and this week's 27% drawdown, an increasing number of DeFi allocators have quietly started asking the same question: what is MYX and does it still belong in a 2026 portfolio? MYX Finance, a non-custodial derivatives exchange that has recently rebranded as a modular settlement layer for omnichain perpetual contracts, now trades for ~$0.25. That's 98.7% below its Sept. 2025 all-time high of $19.03.
Archie DuttonMar 31, 2026
Pi Network Reddit Communities Know Something Exchanges Don't
PI is currently trading at $0.176. That's down 94% from its ATH of $2.99 this past February 2025. Volume is drying up, there's a down channel on the 4-hour chart, and 5.1 million tokens are dumped onto the market every single day just from unlocks. But there's something else brewing over at r/pi_network that exchanges aren't seeing.
Archie DuttonMar 30, 2026
Why Snek Coinmarketcap Rankings Don't Tell the Full Story
Had you checked snek coinmarketcap data last week, you would be staring at a token that today resides somewhere around #590 on CoinGecko. Trading near $0.00045, roughly 95% down from all-time highs, the instant verdict would be damning. That ranking, however, masks what's afoot under the hood: 42,000+ unique wallets, over 2 billion ADA in all-time trading volume, and a coveted partnership with Input Output, the Cardano Foundation development group.
Archie DuttonMar 30, 2026
What Is Alchemy Pay and Why Binance Shopify Arculus All Use It
Right now, somewhere in London, a Shopify merchant is completing a crypto payment at a local coffee shop. British pounds just showed up in their bank account. They didn't have to set up their own blockchain node. They didn't have to fret over gas fees. They most likely don't know what is Alchemy Pay, let alone that its infrastructure just quietly processed the transaction in the background. That's the point.
Archie DuttonMar 29, 2026
What Is Siacoin and Why Developers Choose It Over Filecoin
Why revisit a protocol that handles around 2PB of data when Filecoin stores 18EB? It's less about size of data and more about the plumbing. To understand what Siacoin brings to the table we need to look beyond market cap charts and dig into the mechanics of how a storage contract actually works.
Archie DuttonMar 29, 2026
Immutable X Wallet Security Mistakes That Cost Users Millions
Most IMX was not drained from advanced exploits. It was drained from humans. From early 2025 to present day, blockchain forensics firms have tracked $4.2 million of IMX token and NFT losses attributable to three wallet security mistakes users are still making, despite the platform enacting more robust security protocols. As Immutable X now hosts more than 500 games, and has over 5 million users on Immutable Play, its surface for social engineering and phishing attacks has grown right along with the wider ecosystem.
Archie DuttonMar 29, 2026
LayerZero Built the Rails and Stargate Runs the Train
Many people talk about Stargate Finance like it's a single monolithic bridge. It's not. Stargate is the liquidity execution layer that rides atop LayerZero's cross-chain messaging protocol. Neither protocol means much without the other. This is not a collaboration in the typical sense. This is a vertical integration. Together they've processed over $70 billion of cross-chain volume to 80+ supported chains since launch.
Archie DuttonMar 29, 2026