Mia Halland
Crypto Journalist & Research Analyst
Mia Halland is a writer for Crypto News Navigator, where she covers blockchain adoption, digital asset rules, and Web3 tech. She uses research in her cryptocurrency reporting, mixing on-chain data with talks with people in the industry to create reporting based on facts. Her work includes how institutions are using crypto, stablecoin systems, and cross-chain working.
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Three Metrics Explaining Why Plume Price Defied Market Trends
As plume price hovers at $0.010 on March 29, 2026, the PLUME token just saw its largest single-day volume spike since the unlock in January. That spike came as Bitcoin and most Layer-1 coins traded flat or in the red. A trio of on-chain figures, taken together, explain why plume crypto has been bucking the market and what that signal is telling institutional investors about the positioning of the token within the real-world asset space.
Mia HallandMar 29, 2026
PEPE's Emotional Arsenal Actually Drives Market Sentiment
To most traders, memes like the Pepe frog are noise to be ignored. This is a flawed way of thinking. Pepe memes tend to be some of the larger, more established mood rings throughout crypto communities. When sad depressed Pepe memes flood social media channels, PEPE token price action tends to follow a predictable pattern: capitulation dumping, whale buying, and reversal.
Mia HallandMar 29, 2026
Five Blockchains Tried Mobile Payments and Only Celo Is Still Building
Five projects chased mobile payments, and four are gone. Facebook's Libra arrived in 2019 boasting access to 2.7 billion preexisting users. By 2022 its rebranded offspring Diem sold its assets for ~$182M before shuttering operations entirely. Celo meanwhile just hit 840,000 DAUs and has seen over $65B of stablecoin volume since migrating to its L2. Celo coin price is $0.083, 99.26% below its all-time high. Market conditions haven't exactly rewarded survival thus far.
Mia HallandMar 29, 2026
NEXO Platform Architecture Explained Without Jargon
Picture someone sitting on two Bitcoin they bought years ago at a fraction of the current price. They want $5,000 for a home renovation but don't want to sell any coins. Instead they go to Nexo, collateralize those coins for a cash loan, and start spending instantly. Strip away all the hype and complexity and you have the basics of Nexo: users earn interest on crypto, borrow against it, and trade between dozens of cryptocurrencies, all inside one account.
Mia HallandMar 28, 2026
Five Things Splendor Does Better Than Tokens Ranked 200 Spots Higher
Splendor (SPLD) ranks #1114 on CoinGecko with a market capitalization of just over $10.9 million. But what happens on the backend doesn't reflect the story told by its price. There are 5 measurable vectors where SPLD and its flagship Splendor Plus outperform a majority of coins ranked hundreds of places higher. $0.37 tells you nothing of Splendor's 2.3 million TPS capability.
Mia HallandMar 27, 2026
Three Myths About Ethereum Classic That Won't Die
Looking at the ethereum current price and market cap isn't entirely useful because these metrics don't represent where this chain has been to arrive at this point. Ethereum Classic has plenty of critics who love to flex their talking points about why this chain is avoidable. It's dead, it's insecure, nobody builds on it. When you actually look at the 2026 data, the story becomes far more nuanced.
Mia HallandMar 27, 2026
Metal Blockchain Price Disconnected from Developer Growth by 300%
Metal Blockchain has over 750 credit unions. They have FedNow certification and outright purchased a fintech CUSO. And yet Metal Blockchain price is $0.142. Market cap $72 million. Ranking #359 on CoinGecko. A valuation not seeming to fully appreciate just how much big-money adoption this project has experienced over the past 18 months. Is METAL being undervalued? Or are these institutional partnership metrics not as good as they seem?
Mia HallandMar 26, 2026
Ether.fi Staking Revenue Just Hit $400M and Nobody's Talking About It
Ether.fi is a liquid restaking protocol currently sitting on $5.85 billion TVL. At current prices, ETHFI has just surpassed $400 million in cumulative staking revenue earned. Neither of those milestones mean anything with ethfi price at $0.60 today. Ether.fi is ranked #100 by market cap with its token trading at about 90% off its all-time high. Those two data points are far enough apart to naturally conjure up one question: is Ether.fi the most undiscovered stressed-priced staking protocol in crypto right now?
Mia HallandMar 26, 2026
Buying IOTA in 2026 Requires Knowing Which Exchanges Actually Matter
Every guide on how to buy IOTA you will come across online in 2026 fails to mention one critical detail: exchanges listed in MIOTA are not interchangeable. Whether pooled 24-hour volumes hover just below $7 million or the single largest trading pair on Binance sees just $1.18 million, where you buy IOTA dictates not only your execution price and slippage but also if your withdrawal will take an hour or get stuck for days.
Mia HallandMar 26, 2026