Katerina Kulikovska
CEO & Lead Market Analyst
Katerina Kulikovska is the CEO and founder of Crypto News Navigator. She heads up the publication's editorial content and market analysis, mixing executive leadership with actually doing crypto journalism. With experience in financial analysis and digital media, she grew Crypto News Navigator into a crypto publication that is driven by data and covers over 400 digital assets. Her reporting looks at big market movements, token economics, and changes in regulations, turning complicated on-chain data into info that traders and investors can use.
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Peaq Crypto Price Dropped 40% While Its Technology Advanced
PEAQ Network (PEAQ) is a Polkadot parachain Layer-1 blockchain purpose-built for DePIN, providing decentralized identifiers, machine-to-machine payments, and a coordination layer for over 50 applications across 21 industries. PEAQ trades around $0.0171 with a $35M market cap and 4.2 billion max supply, with around 36.3% of supply circulating. PEAQ is down 97% from its $0.7505 December 10, 2024 ATH and 40% above its $0.01217 March 15, 2026 ATL. Over 1.7 billion PEAQ (around 40% of supply) is staked as validator collateral. Network metrics show 3.5 million wallets reached by Q1 2025 from 258,000 in December 2024, plus 9 million total transactions and Q1 2025 protocol revenue of $44,300. Binance listed PEAQ for spot trading in January 2026; Coinbase has the token under evaluation; CertiK ranks peaq tier 1 in its top 15 of 13,500+ chains. ---
Katerina KulikovskaMay 5, 2026
GoPlus GPS Blocked Millions of Scam Transactions
GoPlus Security (GPS) is a Web3 security infrastructure protocol providing real-time threat intelligence, malicious address detection, and transaction-level risk analysis through APIs and SDKs integrated by MetaMask, Trust Wallet, Uniswap, Binance, and SafePal. GPS trades around $0.007634 with a $33.6M market cap, $76.3M FDV, and 4.29 billion tokens circulating against a 10 billion max supply, ranked #634 on CoinGecko. GPS is down 96.5% from its $0.2198 January 2025 ATH and up 73.7% from its December 2025 cycle low. GoPlus blocked 2.3 million scam transactions in April 2026, processes 717 million API calls per month across 40+ chains, and reports $45.8M in user savings alongside $4.7M in cumulative protocol revenue. 166.44 million GPS tokens unlock on June 1, 2026, representing 1.7% of total supply. The 22-exploit AI Auditing Benchmark released April 22, 2026 documents previously audited contracts that were exploited.
Katerina KulikovskaMay 4, 2026
BDX Price Held Steady While Privacy Peers Crashed
Beldex (BDX) is a privacy-focused Layer-1 with a private messenger (BChat), VPN (BelNet), and browser, plus LayerZero cross-chain support across Ethereum, Solana, BNB Smart Chain, Base, and Arbitrum. BDX trades around $0.08 with a $620M market cap and 7.74B circulating supply, ranked #86 on CoinGecko. While the privacy coin sector got hammered through January 2026 with Monero and Zcash facing exchange delistings, BDX held steady. The Obscura hardfork on December 7, 2025 brought Bulletproofs++ to the chain, cutting transaction size by 38%. Kraken listed BDX on January 22, 2026. Grayscale Research named Beldex among its Q4 2025 top performers by volatility-adjusted returns. KuCoin and WEEX launched 30-day fixed staking programs that locked supply during deep-fear sentiment. The thesis: technicals showed bearish, but on-chain data and infrastructure buildout told a different story.
Katerina KulikovskaMay 3, 2026
Liquity USD Versus USDC Loans Where ETH Costs Less
Liquity USD (LUSD) is a decentralized ETH-collateralized stablecoin issued by Liquity Protocol with no governance, immutable smart contracts, and a redemption guarantee at $1. LUSD trades around $1.00 with a market cap near $28.8M and a circulating supply of roughly 29 million tokens. Historical price range spans $0.8967 to $1.16 over the protocol's four-plus years of operation. Liquity charges a one-time 0.5-5% borrowing fee plus a refundable 200 LUSD liquidation reserve. Aave charges variable APRs averaging 4-8% on USDC loans. Liquidation mechanics differ sharply: Liquity V1 forces 100% liquidation when collateral ratio dips below 110%, while Aave permits partial liquidations up to 50% with a 5% penalty. Recovery Mode triggers when total system collateral ratio falls below 150%. Liquity V2 is live and BOLD earned an A- rating from Bluechip on January 26, 2026. The thesis: Liquity wins past 30 days for committed ETH borrowers; Aave wins for short-term or multi-collateral needs.
Katerina KulikovskaMay 1, 2026
EURC Price Stayed Flat While Three Competitors Depegged
EURC is Circle's euro-pegged stablecoin, MiCA-compliant and minted across Ethereum, Base, Solana, Stellar, Avalanche, and World Chain. Circulating supply sits near 373.9 million tokens with a market cap around $438 million as of April 2026. Daily volume ranges $30 to $56 million across 260+ active markets. EURC went from 17% to 41% of total euro stablecoin market cap in the 12 months following MiCA's December 30, 2024 cutoff, while three named rival euro stablecoins suffered depeg events of 3% to 6% during the same period. Circle obtained a French EMI license well before MiCA's effective date and publishes monthly reserve attestations from a Big Four firm. Recent integrations include Ingenico WalletConnect Pay (40M+ POS terminals), ClearBank Europe (April 2026), and Wirex on Stellar. The thesis: full reserves plus pre-positioned regulatory licensing produced peg stability that fractionally-reserved competitors could not match, and that stability is itself the product.
Katerina KulikovskaApr 30, 2026
Lava App Turns Any Developer Into an RPC Provider in Minutes
Lava Network is a decentralized RPC routing protocol built on Cosmos SDK that pays independent providers in LAVA for serving blockchain data requests. The network added 17 new chain integrations in March 2026, bringing total supported chains past 40. Lifetime relays are approaching 186 billion. Smart Router, the orchestration layer built on Lava's open-source protocol, is now deployed at Kraken (February 2026) and Fireblocks (June 2025), giving the protocol a base layer of enterprise demand. Provider setup is a three-step CLI process: install the lavad binary, configure the provider yaml, register on-chain with a stake transaction. Current LAVA price is around $0.0245 with $6.49 million market cap and $482,000 daily trading volume. The token has a fixed 1 billion supply, 264.5 million circulating, and 80% of fees and rewards are burned. The thesis: provider growth is a leading indicator for LAVA's market price.
Katerina KulikovskaApr 29, 2026
HashKey Platform Token Makes Sense for One Type of Trader
HashKey Platform Token works like a loyalty card, not a lottery ticket. Trading at $0.17 and 93.8% below its all-time high of $2.56, HSK isn't a speculative moonshot. It's a utility token that makes economic sense in only one use case: traders already staked into HashKey's Exchange ecosystem who want reduced fees, staking access, and a regulated onramp into Hong Kong's crypto market.
Katerina KulikovskaApr 28, 2026
GateToken Price Dropped 40% While Exchange Volume Hit Records
Gate.io's derivatives volume increased by more than 50% in Q1 2026. Institutional clients grew by 66%. Assets under management increased by 22%. And through it all, the price of GateToken has just kept falling. GT is currently trading at $7.35, which is 71% from its all-time high of $25.38 from January 2025.
Katerina KulikovskaApr 27, 2026
Sixty-Five Million in BioDAOs, BIO at One Cent
Bio Protocol's CEO recently revealed that PeptAI designed a new ADHD peptide candidate in 24 hours for roughly $1,500 in initial lab validation. While crypto traders focus on memecoins, Bio Protocol has quietly built a scientific funding platform backed by Pfizer Ventures, Binance Labs, and Arthur Hayes' Maelstrom Fund. The bio price trades at $0.031, down 96.5% from its all-time high of $0.889, despite $65M in combined BioDAO research funding and active clinical trials.
Katerina KulikovskaApr 25, 2026