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How to Buy IoTeX Without Overpaying on Fees in 2026
Trading around $0.0048 in early April 2026, a few percentage points of fees can rapidly diminish an IoTeX position. If you are a buyer and wondering where and how to buy IoTeX, note that the advertised price on any exchange is never the true price. Spread markups, withdrawal fees, network fees and conversion costs can tack on 3% to 8% or more above the ticker price.
Crypto News NavigatorApr 3, 2026
Three Scenarios for Axelar as Cross-Chain Demand Explodes
Daily cross-chain transfer volume on Axelar came to $4.5 million in 24 hours on February 9, 2026. This was the largest amount for a 24-hour period yet in 2026. Volumes are accelerating. Will the curve sharpen? Flatten out? Or will it be broken entirely? Three scenarios, all based on different assumptions, each with a very different price outcome for the AXL token.
Archie DuttonApr 3, 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
Manta Network Just Processed 12M Private Transactions
On one hand you have network activity skyrocketing and on the other hand the coin is getting pounded. Can all of this organic demand for ZK privacy reverse these fortunes, or is manta price action telling us something about the project that transaction volume cannot mask?
Crypto News NavigatorApr 3, 2026
Every Safe Wallet Myth Crypto Twitter Keeps Spreading
Multisig has remained something of an inside joke on crypto Twitter: the solution du jour for paranoid whales. Many of these myths are not only wrong, they're costly. Several accounts of Safe protocol skeptics losing money to phishing scams, single-key hacks, and custodial failures that multisig would have prevented entirely.
Mia HallandApr 2, 2026
Privacy Coins Are Dead but Mask Network Survived
If you showed most traders the thesis below they would read it and declare it easy: privacy coins are dead. All of these so-called "privacy" projects got crushed. Mask Network is different. Mask didn't fit into that paragraph in many ways. At $0.45 a token with a market cap of around $45 million, mask crypto is down 99.55% from its all-time high. It's not about valuation. It's about how MASK acted when everybody was writing its eulogy.
Crypto News NavigatorApr 2, 2026
Aerodrome Just Flipped SushiSwap on Base and the Data Shows Why
This wasn't luck. This was someone making a self-fulfilling prophecy with the flywheel that would go on to make Aerodrome Finance the dominant decentralized exchange on Base. One that now boasts over 50% of the network's TVL and $6.5 million in fees over the last 30 days.
Archie DuttonApr 2, 2026
Rain Payments Processed $847M Last Quarter and Most Investors Missed It
The top three largest prediction markets combined for more than $3 billion in trading volume last quarter. That's 5x the volume for the same period a year earlier. Rain Protocol, the Arbitrum-based prediction market infrastructure layer, has quietly amassed a $3.9 billion market cap while most retail investors' attention was elsewhere.
Archie DuttonApr 2, 2026
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