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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Why CARV Login Numbers Won't Stop Climbing
With 8+ million CARV IDs in circulation and 1,000+ games on the protocol, CARV now has one of the largest authenticated user bases in Web3 gaming. CARV logins continue to post all-time highs while the rest of the market is massacring small caps. The CARV price is $0.053, down 96% from all-time highs of $1.36. It's hard to reconcile these two narratives.
Katerina KulikovskaApr 16, 2026
Most Beam Buyers Send Tokens to the Wrong Place First
Buying Beam can be very unintuitive, especially after running into the ticker confusion that's costing traders money every day. BEAM is the native token of the Beam Network, an Avalanche subnet built specifically for gaming. The issue is that at least one other project trades under the same ticker. Double check the contract before making a purchase.
Katerina KulikovskaApr 15, 2026
DAI Yields Crushed ETH Staking and Institutions Noticed
The Ethereum Foundation swapping out 5,000 ETH for 11.11 million DAI in early April of 2026 rather than staking those tokens wasn't some optional treasury play. DAI yields across DeFi lending protocols and savings accounts far outpaced native ETH staking. DAI strategies offered between 7.2% to 8.7% APY while ETH staking rewards sat between 2.6% and 3.1%.
Katerina KulikovskaApr 13, 2026
Cartesi Runs Linux on Ethereum and Most L2s Can't Compete
99% of L2 rollups are fighting over crumbs in the same playground. Identical Solidity tooling. Same DeFi playbook. If any sort of remotely realistic cartesi price prediction is going to hold up it has to start with a tougher question: Does this project have a moat that cannot be replicated by competitors in 6 months?
Katerina KulikovskaApr 13, 2026
Former Sony Execs Built Japan's First Regulated Token
It didn't receive much attention in 2021 when the token of Japanese startup Jasmy Corporation received regulatory approval by Japan's Financial Services Agency to list on Japanese domestic crypto exchanges. Five years later this Tokyo-headquartered company with a lineage of former Sony executives has quietly developed a functional IoT data platform, generated enterprise partnerships, and stayed true to its roots as Japan's original legally compliant crypto token.
Katerina KulikovskaApr 11, 2026
Virtual Protocol Flipped Three Competitors in Developer Activity
A public software company would advertise on its quarterly earnings report that they've outpaced 3 of their competitors in terms of development activity. Virtual Protocol did that in Q4 2025. The virtual crypto space barely registered. The VIRTUAL token traded 86% below a Jan. 2025 all time high of $5.07.
Katerina KulikovskaApr 11, 2026
Bitcoin Maxis Built the SATS Brand and a Token Ate
A pseudonymous developer named Baba was hyping a BRC-20 token in December 2023 that he had recently deployed from a project playing around with Bitcoin's Ordinals protocol. The token was called 1000SATS, and it would hit an all-time high price of $0.0009261 later that year. The SATS token is now trading at $0.00001071, down about 98.8% from its all-time high. The sats meme that once rallied an entire movement now poses a more nihilistic question: did the culture eat itself?
Katerina KulikovskaApr 10, 2026
Fidelity Digital Dollar Faces Its First Real Competition in 2026
The Fidelity Digital Dollar launched on February 4th, 2026, on the assumption that the Fidelity brand could take meaningful market share in the stablecoin space from a $5T asset manager. As of mid-April 2026, FIDD's circulating supply is at approximately 63 million tokens, market cap is approximately $62.5 million, and CoinMarketCap rank is at #300. The total stablecoin market is at about $315 billion, which means FIDD is responsible for about 0.02% of that.
Katerina KulikovskaApr 9, 2026
Velo Price Prediction: Why Chart-Based Models All Miss
Traded at $0.0037, Velo has dropped 99.8% from its all-time high price of $2.29. Daily transactions in the protocol rose 255.5% in Q1 2025. The on-chain growth vs. token price disconnect tells an illuminating story about what's wrong with conventional velo price prediction.
Katerina KulikovskaApr 8, 2026