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Chains Earning Less Than $100 per day

The harsh reality of blockchain economics: even some well-known L1s and L2s are pulling in less than $100 in daily fees - barely enough to cover a single AWS bill.

24h fees breakdown:
• @SonicLabs - $97/day | FDV $179M
• @hemi_xyz - $73/day | FDV $80M
• @MultiversX - $73/day | FDV $125M
• @celestia - $52/day | FDV $415M
• @RariChain - $41/day | Not listed
• @iotexPad - $38/day | FDV $44.1M
• @botanix - $37/day | Not listed
• @MantaNetwork - $28/day | FDV $63.6M
• @Plasma - $27/day | FDV $44.1M
• @vana - $23/day | FDV $965M

For context, Hyperliquid pulls in ~$2.3M/day in revenue. These chains combined don't earn what Hyperliquid makes in 30 seconds.

When grants run out, and emissions stop subsidising activity, fees this small don't sustain validators, infrastructure, or developer attention.
- by top7ico
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$HEMI
$TIA

PAYPAL INTRODUCES NEW CRYPTO DIVISION

PayPal unveiled a strategic reorganization into three core business units, including a new "Payment Services & Crypto" division.

The unit will combine Braintree payment services and PayPal’s crypto offerings, including its PYUSD stablecoin, under one structure.
- by CoinBureau
$BTC
$ETH

WHALE ALERT: OG Shiba whale who turned $13K into $8.9B at peak, sells 800B Shiba Inu, still holding $625M worth.
- by Cointelegraph
$SHIB

UPDATE: xStocks launches on $BNB Chain with 50+ tokenized U.S. stocks now live.
- by Cointelegraph

NEW: Japan Exchange Group plans crypto ETFs by 2027 with $BTC and $ETH products in focus, says CEO Hiromi Yamaji.
- by Cointelegraph

THE MOST ACTIVE CRYPTOS BASED ON GITHUB DATA FOR THE LAST 12 MONTHS

$BTC $LINK $STORJ
- by Cryptogics

TOP 8 PROMISING PROJECTS WITH CAPITALIZATION BELOW $100M

$MOCA $YFI $ZRX
- by CryptoDep

JUST IN: Rakuten Wallet users in Japan can now convert Rakuten Points into $XRP and spend across 5M+ merchant locations.
- by Cointelegraph

AVALANCHE FOUNDATION = $50K GRANTS FOR NETWORK ECONOMICS RESEARCH.

Open call for original academic proposals.

The chains that fund their own research foundation get studied for 20 years. The ones that don't get studied retroactively as cautionary tales.

Avalanche is funding the case study before it gets written.
- by AltcoinBuzz
$AVAX

BLACKROCK SOLD $166M IN $BTC . THE HEADLINE READS BEARISH.

The math reads otherwise.

That's 0.3% of their $BTC ETF position. After 8 days of net positive flows.

This is rebalancing, not capitulation.

Read flows in weeks, not days.
- by AltcoinBuzz

ENERGY MARKETS WENT 24/7 ONCHAIN.

$GMX + Chainlink = WTI, Brent, Natural Gas perps live.

No CME account. No futures broker. No market hours.

The unbundling of TradFi keeps compounding. Chainlink is the data layer underneath all of it.
- by AltcoinBuzz
$LINK

THE STABLECOIN ERA ON $SUI JUST BECAME REAL.

Sui shipped two stablecoins simultaneously. USDsui for compliant real-world rails. suiUSDe for yield-earning DeFi.

Most chains pick one. Sui shipped both because the use cases are different:

USDsui is for the people who need bank-grade compliance. Tokenized Treasuries, RWA settlement, regulated payments. The stablecoin institutions can hold without an asterisk.

suiUSDe is for the people who want their dollars working while they sleep. Yield-bearing, DeFi-native, productive capital instead of idle balance.

Same dollar. Two different jobs.

Stablecoins aren't a single product anymore. They're a stack. Compliance-first. Yield-first. Privacy-first.

Distribution-first. The chains that ship multiple flavors win the multiple verticals that need them.

Sui just shipped two of the most important categories in one day.

What's the next stablecoin category that needs its own dedicated product?
- by AltcoinBuzz

CHAINLINK JUST CROSSED $30T IN VALUE ENABLED.

$30,006,888,224,116 to be exact.

Larger than US GDP. Larger than $BTC and $ETH all-time settlement volume combined.

7 years. Zero exploits.

The data layer compounds quietly.
- by AltcoinBuzz
$LINK

MOST BLOCKCHAIN GAMES BOLT CRYPTO ONTO BAD GAMES.

Suiplash rebuilt the relationship.

Playable NFTs. Transparent economy. Invisible infra.

Web2 experience. Web3 ownership.

The next wave of gaming finally figured out what the last wave got wrong.
- by AltcoinBuzz
$SUI

STELLAR'S YARDSTICK VOTE IS NEXT WEEK.

May 6. 17:00 UTC. Protocol 26.

AI-attack defenses. Quantum-prep elements. Agentic payment infrastructure.

The chains that pre-architect for threats outlast the chains that patch after.
- by AltcoinBuzz
$XLM

HEDERA AT CONSENSUS 2026:

Leemon Baird + Oracle + NEAR + AAI Society.

Topic: Agents meet the enterprise. Trust stack for the AI economy.

The chain with 31 Fortune 500 council members is the chain that hosts the agent economy.
- by AltcoinBuzz
$HBAR

PLUME'S POINTS SEASON 2 IS LIVE.

Registration is open. Entry is gated by participation, not capital.

The structural detail most miss: $PLUME is using its points program as the bridge from early users to long-term holders, while keeping compliance gates intact.

Most points programs reward sybils and farmers.

Plume's framework actually filters for engaged participants because the underlying chain runs sequencer-level KYC. The bots that destroy other airdrops can't replicate identity at scale here.

This is what a sustainable airdrop looks like:

Registration is selective. Compliance is built in. Rewards align with real protocol usage. Bot farming gets penalized at the network layer.

If you're in the RWA narrative and want to participate in one of the chains positioned to host the next wave, this is the entry point.

What's the most important factor in an airdrop program: distribution fairness, user quality, or protocol revenue alignment?
- by AltcoinBuzz

LYNQ MOVED TO AVALANCHE L1 ARCHITECTURE.

30+ institutions. $2.5T+ in transaction history (Tassat).

Real-time payments. Collateral mobility. Regulatory compliance built-in.

The institutional payment rail just got purpose-built infrastructure.

Built for business.
- by AltcoinBuzz
$AVAX

BTC.D RECLAIMED THE 20W EMA.

Last time this happened: Q1 2025.

What followed: alts dumped 8 weeks straight.

This is the early signal capital is running for safety inside crypto.

The alts that survive this trend are the ones with real revenue and real institutional adoption.
- by AltcoinBuzz
$BTC

ETF FLOWS: XRP spot ETFs saw net inflows on Apr. 29, meanwhile BTC and ETH spot ETFs saw net outflows.

$BTC : -$137.77M
$ETH : -$87.73M
$XRP : $3.59M
- by Cointelegraph