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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
Optimism Wallet Security Is Broken and Users Don't Know It
On the surface, every Optimism wallet user appears to have Ethereum's security model. But it's an expensive assumption. Wallet exploits against Optimism users have drained roughly $47 million into OP addresses over the course of 2025 and early 2026. Not the big headline stories. Thousands of little ones that add up.
Archie DuttonApr 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