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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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
Three Metrics Explaining Orca Coin Price Movement Right Now
Three on-chain metrics tell a more interesting story than the token price chart alone: trading volume, liquidity provider behavior, and Solana ecosystem TVL may be diverging from the token's performance in ways worth monitoring. Orca has increased its protocol usage even as its token price has declined.
Mia HallandApr 6, 2026
YFI Price Predictions for 2026 Ignore What Actually Moves the Token
Trading above $700K per share, Berkshire Hathaway has never had to explain how its share count grows to sustain its price level. For most predicting the price of Yearn.finance, YFI's ~36,000 token supply is an inconvenient footnote instead of the central principle of its valuation thesis. Don't listen to the crypto price prediction websites. Yearn's economics have been drastically different since February 2026.
Mia HallandApr 5, 2026
Filecoin Wallets Ranked by Security Features You Actually Need
The "where do you keep your coins?" question has gotten a whole lot less academic. If you're one of the people asking "what is FIL besides a speculation token," the answer already exists in the form of storage deal collateralization requirements, mining rewards, and staking requirements. These are very real use cases that create wallets existing cryptocurrency custody services just aren't built for.
Mia HallandApr 5, 2026
DOG Holders Made Money While Everyone Chased New Launches
DOG traded to an all-time low of $0.0006988 just three days ago and hardly anyone blinked an eye. While price tells part of the story, the narrative that the free money dog meme has run its course is greatly exaggerated. A lot of the market didn't care because they were buying Solana flips.
Mia HallandApr 4, 2026
NEAR Protocol Built an AI Stack and Nobody's Talking About It
Lost in this price-obsessed chorus is that NEAR has, almost imperceptibly, quietly built out one of crypto's most powerful AI infrastructure stacks. A buildout that's redefined, under the hood, what the protocol is at its core. The market hasn't seen fit to price any of it in.
Mia HallandApr 4, 2026
Why ApeCoin Survived When Most NFT Tokens Died
People like to tell a story about the failure of NFT tokens as a whole. They say tokens were nothing more than a fad, and APE just hasn't run its course in death yet. The data tells a much more interesting story. Through key decisions made early on, ApeCoin structurally differentiated itself from its competition. Those who buy ApeCoin today are betting on governance and treasury design, not JPEGs.
Mia HallandApr 3, 2026