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Virtual Protocol Flipped Three Competitors in Developer Activity
A public software company would advertise on its quarterly earnings report that they've outpaced 3 of their competitors in terms of development activity. Virtual Protocol did that in Q4 2025. The virtual crypto space barely registered. The VIRTUAL token traded 86% below a Jan. 2025 all time high of $5.07.
Katerina KulikovskaApr 11, 2026
Bitcoin Maxis Built the SATS Brand and a Token Ate
A pseudonymous developer named Baba was hyping a BRC-20 token in December 2023 that he had recently deployed from a project playing around with Bitcoin's Ordinals protocol. The token was called 1000SATS, and it would hit an all-time high price of $0.0009261 later that year. The SATS token is now trading at $0.00001071, down about 98.8% from its all-time high. The sats meme that once rallied an entire movement now poses a more nihilistic question: did the culture eat itself?
Katerina KulikovskaApr 10, 2026
Ravencoin's Original Vision and Why It Still Matters Today
January 15th, 2026 will go down as the day of Ravencoin's second halving. The block reward moving from 2500 RVN to 1250 RVN, it was an important development as it cut in half the issuance of the day. For what was essentially double the reduction of ravencoin entering circulation per day, the network would generate little more than a blip on the mainstream ravencoin news radar. Celebrity investors wouldn't tweet.
Crypto News NavigatorApr 9, 2026
Kava Price Could Hit $2.80 If History Repeats This Pattern
Are the indicators that led to those previous pumps already in place? The chart could make you think that is a possibility. Although in order for a $2.80 movement to occur with Kava very specific circumstances would need to happen. Circumstances that begin with Bitcoin and end with Kava-related news.
Crypto News NavigatorApr 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
Why Ripple Mining Doesn't Exist and What That Actually Means
The very search term betrays a fundamental misunderstanding of Ripple USD and the XRP Ledger on which it's built. Ripple's dollar-pegged stablecoin, RLUSD, can't be mined because the underlying platform was designed from the ground up to make the whole concept inapplicable. No miners scrambling to solve cryptographic puzzles. No energy-intensive race. Instead, a consensus protocol where trusted validators agree on the state of the ledger in seconds.
Crypto News NavigatorApr 4, 2026
Bitcoin SV Just Hit 4 Million Daily Transactions
Bitcoin SV scales to 4 million transactions per day. Seriously. It already does that. Easily. Even while its price and bsv coinmarketcap ranking remains stubbornly low and stuck. BSV supporters have been saying these things for months. But it's always good to look at the facts. What they really are.
Archie DuttonMar 25, 2026
BARD Crypto Explained Without the Jargon or Hype
Bitcoin's most obvious problem: the majority of holders don't use it. Tokens on other blockchains can be deposited into DeFi protocols and staked to earn yield. Bitcoin doesn't have a native mechanism for that. Enter Lombard, the protocol powering bard crypto. Its pitch is simple: Lombard's technology allows people to put their Bitcoin to work in DeFi without surrendering ownership of their BTC. Whether that promise survives a deep dive is another question entirely.
Crypto News NavigatorMar 23, 2026
Core Merged Bitcoin Security with EVM Speed and It Actually Works
Is it possible to have a blockchain "secured by bitcoin" without forking bitcoin? That's the promise being sold by Core crypto, which launched with Satoshi Plus consensus hybridizing proof-of-work and delegated proof-of-stake. The elevator pitch is convincing: leverage the most battle-tested crypto security model to back an execution layer that can finalize every few seconds. But with ~200 validators and sub-10-second block times as of March 2026, curious minds will want to know how the engineering squares up.
Crypto News NavigatorMar 20, 2026