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XRD Wallet Security Went From Afterthought to Industry Standard
Radix (XRD) is a Layer 1 smart contract platform whose Babylon mainnet, live since September 28, 2023, makes blind signing structurally impossible at the wallet level. Network TVL climbed from $21.5M to $49.3M in fourteen days during March 2026, ranking the chain 51st on DefiLlama. The Babylon upgrade replaced encoded function calls with human-readable transaction manifests, a pattern now drawing attention in Cosmos and NEAR developer forums. Atlan Digital conducted a pre-launch security assessment; the chain has reported zero major exploits since launch. XRD trades at $0.001288 with a $17.28M market cap (#766 on CoinMarketCap). Founder Dan Hughes passed away unexpectedly in July 2025, with CEO Andy Jarrett now leading the Radix Foundation alongside Chief Strategy Officer Adam Simmons and Finance Director Jonathan Day. The thesis: Radix's transaction manifest design is becoming the reference pattern for minimum DeFi wallet security, even as XRD's market cap remains a footnote.
Mia HallandApr 29, 2026
Fluid Reached 930M TVL on a 250K Marketing Budget
A protocol earning $51 million in annualized fees while spending $250,000 a month on marketing is unusual. Fluid has crossed $930 million in TVL across five chains, accrued more than $200 billion in cumulative volume, repaid a $70 million bad debt without pausing markets, and survived the Kelp DAO contagion event that drained $8.45 billion from Aave. The FLUID token still trades at $1.66.
Mia HallandApr 29, 2026
Merlin Crypto Tracker Shows What Bitcoin L2s Can Actually Do
Merlin Chain removed its sequencer infrastructure in June last year in Fork 12. The result was a historic earthquake with aftershocks that continue to ripple through on-chain data as of this writing. We're talking: 12.7M transactions processed, $16 billion cumulative bridge volume, and volumes of throughput activity no normal Bitcoin block explorer can make sense of. A good merlin crypto tracker breaks the chaos into legible parts: gas costs, bridge flows, proof submission cadences, and more.
Archie DuttonApr 28, 2026
Three On-Chain Metrics Explain CVX's 2026 Trajectory
CVX trades at $1.80 today, down 97% from its ATH of $60.09. Market cap has contracted to just under $175 million. In the face of that collapse, over 40% of the circulating supply remains vote-locked. These two data points,collapsing price action on one side, and stubborn accumulation on the other,are two of the most important variables to consider in any meaningful Convex Finance price prediction for 2026 and beyond.
Crypto News NavigatorApr 28, 2026
POLYX Price Disconnected from Network Growth by 60%
Polymesh announced 7 new institutional partnerships last year and launched Confidential Assets on DevNet with many more entities added to its ecosystem for an active list of over 25 participants. As of now, the Polymesh price is trading around $0.049, about 93.43% below its all-time high of $0.7547 which was set in March of 2024. The delta between network growth and the token price has grown to over 60% in a number of compound growth vectors.
Mia HallandApr 28, 2026
HashKey Platform Token Makes Sense for One Type of Trader
HashKey Platform Token works like a loyalty card, not a lottery ticket. Trading at $0.17 and 93.8% below its all-time high of $2.56, HSK isn't a speculative moonshot. It's a utility token that makes economic sense in only one use case: traders already staked into HashKey's Exchange ecosystem who want reduced fees, staking access, and a regulated onramp into Hong Kong's crypto market.
Katerina KulikovskaApr 28, 2026
Why BurnedFi Developers Built This Instead of Another DEX
In December 2023, two brothers in Singapore launched BurnedFi after watching yet another DEX clone hit the market. Instead of building another liquidity pool with inflationary emissions, they made token burning the entire product. The protocol automatically burns 0.25% of its liquidity pool supply every hour, with renounced contract ownership meaning no one can change the tokenomics. Today, BURN trades around $4.95, down 84% from its all-time high.
Archie DuttonApr 28, 2026
Ethena Careers Reveal Where the Protocol Is Headed Next
Rarely does Ethena factor into the consciousness of the few that have not become hyper fixated on either its 90%+ drop from ATH of ENA or the April '26 USDe $1.6B exit that sent shockwaves throughout DeFi. The signal isn't waving, it's folded within the protocol's hiring page. Discreetly, over the last three months Ethena has been adding to the cumulative count of job postings for compliance, enterprise integration, and protocol engineering positions in stark contrast to the behavior of a project on the run.
Mia HallandApr 28, 2026
Purr Token Hits $12M Volume While Nobody's Paying Attention
Cat meme-based cryptocurrencies that trade with a $44.7 million market cap typically don't get analyst coverage. Purr crypto has, in the last few weeks, made a mockery of that standard by generating a 30-day rolling trading volume of over $12 million. It's currently priced at $0.075, meaning the purr price is 88.66% down from its all-time high price of $0.69, but this market cap to volume ratio is very curious given the activity of its "dead" chart.
Crypto News NavigatorApr 27, 2026