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 Showing THENA Finance Survived While Others Collapsed
Did thena finance just survive the 2024-2025 bear market? Or did it implode in a different way? Either way, it's important to draw distinctions. THENA is a DEX built on BNB Chain that uses a ve(3,3) model. Today it has $8.3M TVL. Daily spot volumes are about $6 million. THE is down 97% from its ATH of $4.03.
Mia HallandApr 2, 2026
XYO Staking Returns Beat Most DeFi Yields Right Now
XYO price today is $0.003674. Market cap? $50.4 million. XY Oracle is one of those names that doesn't immediately spring to mind when most cryptocurrency holders are thinking about yield generation. You'd be wrong. Since the mainnet launch of XYO Layer One in September of 2025, XYO staking has quietly generated annualized returns that outpace most Ethereum and Polygon-based DeFi protocols.
Mia HallandApr 1, 2026
What Happens When Tether's Stablecoin Empire Faces Real Pressure
If you own Tether Gold (XAUT), the specter of a tether collapse has been haunting you. It's an existential risk baked into every trade you've ever made. XAUT is issued by the same company that backs USDT, the largest stablecoin by market share. But if that issuer runs into serious trouble, can its gold-backed sister remain unscathed?
Mia HallandMar 31, 2026
Pudgy Penguins Toys Are Outselling Most NFT Projects Combined
Most consumer brands fight for years for a spot on Walmart shelves. Pudgy Penguins managed it in two. And here's the mind-blowing thing: the plastic Pudgy Penguins toys now on shelves at major U.S. retail chains have built mainstream brand awareness far greater than the NFT collection and PENGU token together. It's a radical inversion of everything you think you know about commercializing Web3 projects.
Mia HallandMar 31, 2026
Three Reasons Developers Keep Building on Zora Instead of OpenSea
ZORA at $0.0147. Down 89.9% from its August 2025 all-time high. It's easy to label this another failed NFT play. That would be incorrect. Zora Labs engineered an open, permissionless minting protocol while OpenSea remained a privatized walled garden. For smart contract devs looking to build NFT applications, that's reason enough to choose where they build.
Mia HallandMar 30, 2026
Sun Token Just Integrated AI Staking and Traders Missed It
Sun Token quietly added an AI-driven yield optimization layer to its staking system in Q1 2026, leveraging machine learning to dynamically adjust APY based on real-time network demand. The upgrade was released with almost no fanfare, and Sun Token is trading at $0.019, meaning the upgrade hasn't been priced in yet. The overwhelming majority of the 19 billion circulating SUN is still being staked in manual strategies, unaware the new system even exists.
Mia HallandMar 30, 2026
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