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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Grass Farming Looks Passive But the Top Earners Do These Things Differently
There's a common misconception that grass farming is completely hands-off. Install the browser extension, leave your computer on, and mine your GRASS tokens. That assumption is wrong. Grass has 8.5 million+ monthly active users on the network, but fewer than 20 enterprise customers paying to use their bandwidth. The math is brutal: 96% of participants earn nothing while a small remainder takes the majority of the pie.
Mia HallandApr 14, 2026
FET Agent Transactions Grew 340% While the Token Dropped
March 2026 was a tremendous month for crypto prices. FET jumped 8% in a day to close March just under $0.229. That whipsaw move tells one narrative. The on-chain data tells a different story. Autonomous agent deployments, on-chain volume, and developer metrics are all telling a story of a usage curve vastly exceeding its current market cap rank of #93.
Mia HallandApr 13, 2026
Got Laughed At for Six Years Then Hit $1.34B
Centrifuge was founded in 2017, years before "real world assets" became a crypto buzzword. The company worked for six years on institutional-grade infrastructure while the competition chased fast money. Since launch, at least six other direct competitors with larger war chests and noisier marketing teams have quietly shut down, pivoted, or faded into obscurity.
Mia HallandApr 12, 2026
How to Buy Enjin Coin With Liquidity and Storage in Mind
Search Google for "how to buy Enjin Coin" and you'll land on article after article telling you "pick an exchange, deposit, click buy." That'll get you ENJ. It's not how you should buy it though. Enjin Coin is not a swing trade. ENJ is a portfolio asset and how you buy it, how you store it, how it's paired with other gaming coins are what truly determine if it's going to benefit your portfolio or just weigh it down.
Mia HallandApr 11, 2026
Compound Staking Mechanics and Yield Strategies Decoded
Compound DAO approved proposals 553 and 554, setting COMP borrow and supply incentives to 0 for ten Comets on Ethereum, Linea, OP Mainnet, and Unichain on March 26th. While the protocol maintains $1.389 billion in TVL and $17.72 million in annualized fees, how users farm yield through Compound has fundamentally shifted. Every strategy depending on COMP token rewards now requires complete reevaluation.
Mia HallandApr 10, 2026
Why Circle and Paxos Both Chose Aleo for Stablecoins
By 2025, stablecoins will have been traded $33 trillion. Less than 1% of businesses issue employee salaries in cryptocurrency. The biggest blocker is that sending salary payments, vendor invoices, and treasury balances on public blockchains exposes that information to anyone who pulls it up on a block explorer. Privacy-focused Layer 1 Aleo was made for enterprises trying to solve this problem.
Mia HallandApr 9, 2026
100M Transactions on Casper and the Market Didn't Blink
Quietly, over Q3 2025, Casper Network hit 100,000,000 total transactions processed on its blockchain. This didn't trend on Crypto Twitter. This didn't move CSPR price. At $0.0029 with a market cap just above $40 million, CSPR sits at #440 on CoinGecko, 99.8% below its all-time high. On-chain activity and enterprise integrations are painting a picture of usage that is no longer correlated with price.
Mia HallandApr 9, 2026
How to Buy EOS in 2026: 5 Costly Mistakes to Avoid
One month ago, an individual in the EOS subreddit shared a screenshot of a failed transaction. They had sent 300 EOS tokens to an exchange's EOS deposit address, but failed to complete the memo field that was required by that particular address. The transaction successfully completed and the tokens were sent, but without a memo no person could receive those funds because it was impossible to know to which account to assign them. Three weeks later and after countless support tickets, the user still had not gotten their money back.
Mia HallandApr 8, 2026
Celestia Built the Modular Stack and Nobody's Using It Yet
The dominant narrative around Celestia right now is generational infrastructure bet. Some modular blockchain scaling tech that will reprice when everyone finally figures it out. Reality paints a different picture. TIA is trading 98.6% below its all-time high of $20.85. Celestia is generating $43.73 per day in network fees. Over 50% of all data being committed to the protocol comes from one rollup. The disconnect between "could use it" and "do use it" is the core narrative for TIA right now.
Mia HallandApr 7, 2026