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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Running a Pocket Network Node in 2026 Pays Better Than You Think
Pocket Network nodes are earning between 50 and 200 POKT per day depending on relay volume and chain coverage. At $0.012, that's $0.62 to $2.50 per day per node. Single-node operators face negative returns after hosting costs, but multi-node setups running 5-10 nodes on shared infrastructure can generate $5,500-6,700 in annual profit on less than $5,000 of total capital invested.
Mia HallandApr 15, 2026
How to Buy Chiliz Without Bleeding Money at Every Step
The issue isn't that there aren't places to purchase Chiliz. The problem is that sellers lose anywhere from 2% to 5% of their investment to unnecessary fees before they even receive the asset in their wallet. CHZ is trading around $0.043. On a $500 buy, the difference between the cheapest and most expensive path is 35x.
Mia HallandApr 14, 2026
dYdX Explained for Traders Who've Never Used a DEX Before
If you've only ever traded crypto on Coinbase or Binance, you've probably have an incredibly bad understanding of what a decentralized exchange actually is. One decentralized exchange, dYdX, has seen over $1.52 trillion in total trading volume for its entire existence. This platform was built specifically for trading perpetual futures, something most DEXs were not designed to handle.
Mia HallandApr 14, 2026
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