Learning the friendly way

You already know inflation is eating your savings. That's probably part of why you're holding crypto in the first place, a hedge against a system that quietly chips away at everything you've earned. Smart thinking!

But holding is only half the equation. The crypto in your wallet is just... sitting there. Not working. Just waiting with some spider webs growing around and crickets chirping in the background.

There's a better way to HODL.

What is Crypto Yield and Why Does It Outperform Your Bank?

Crypto yield refers to rewards earned by allocating digital assets into yield-generating products. Instead of relying on traditional banking systems, crypto yield products use blockchain infrastructure to generate returns.

What does the appeal come down to? Flexibility and potential growth.

Traditional banks often provide minimal returns under 1%, while inflation steadily chips away at your purchasing power. Crypto yield products can offer significantly higher APY, especially on stablecoins and major crypto assets.

Another issue is accessibility. Many traditional financial products involve restrictions, waiting periods, or complex requirements. Modern crypto earn solutions are designed to be faster, more transparent, and easier to manage directly from your phone.

That said, not all platforms are built equally. Transparency, security, liquidity, and trust remain critical when choosing where to grow your crypto.

With Tap Your Crypto Is Finally Earning Its Keep  

Tap Earn is built differently.

The reality about many high-yield products is that the rates come with strings attached. Lock-up periods. Minimums. Maximums. Restricted access. The moment you actually need your money, you're penalized for it.

Built directly into the Tap app you know and love, Earn gives you access to crypto yield with up to 7% APY, no minimum to get started, daily compounding, weekly payouts, and no lock-up periods. Earn does the work; you stay liquid, you stay in control.

High-Yield Assets: What Can You Earn On?

Different assets serve different strategies, and Tap Earn supports a mix designed for both stability-focused users and long-term crypto holders.

Stability with Stablecoins (USDC & USDT)

Stablecoins like USDC and USDT are among the most popular assets for crypto yield. Because they're designed to hold a stable value relative to the US dollar, they offer a practical way to pursue high-yield opportunities without taking on market volatility. 

If capital preservation is what you are after, stablecoin rewards offer a compelling balance between flexibility and consistent returns.

Growth with BTC, ETH, XRP & SOL

Crypto yield isn't limited to stablecoins. Tap Earn also supports BTC, ETH, XRP, and SOL, so if you're already planning to hold these assets long-term, they can be generating yield in the background rather than sitting idle.

For a HODLER who is in it for the long haul, it's a straightforward way to combine long-term conviction with passive income, without changing your vision.

Passive Income Without the Lock-up: How Tap Earn Works

One of the biggest frustrations with traditional high-yield products is restricted access to your own funds. Tap Earn removes that friction entirely.

Users can move supported assets into their Earn Vault and begin generating yield without committing to lock-up periods or fixed-term restrictions. Funds can be withdrawn back into spending wallets at any time, giving users complete flexibility over their assets.

The Daily Edge: Daily Compounding

Rewards are calculated using APY and compounded daily.

In simple terms, this means your earnings continuously contribute toward future earnings, helping maximize growth over time through compound crypto yield.

Even small balances can gradually build momentum through consistent daily compounding.

Weekly Paydays

While rewards compound daily, payouts are distributed weekly every Monday directly into the user’s Earn balance.

Tap also provides transparent tracking inside the app, including:

• Total earnings accrued in real time
• Visible APY rates
• A “Next Payout” countdown

Your earnings, down to the cent, are always visible. 

Step-by-Step: How to Start Receiving Rewards in Minutes

Getting started with Tap Earn is designed to be simple, even for first-time crypto users.

Step 1: Navigating the Hub

Open the Tap app and head to the dedicated Earn tab.

There, you’ll find supported assets, current APY rates, and your existing Earn balance.

Step 2: Selecting Your Strategy

Choose the asset you’d like to allocate and review the available APY.

Premium users can access enhanced APY tiers, offering even higher potential rewards on supported assets.

Step 3: Confirming Your Balance

Select the amount you want to move into your Earn Vault and confirm.

Once completed, your assets begin generating yield automatically, with rewards compounding daily and paid weekly.

Users can fund their balances through:

• Bank transfers
• Debit card purchases
• In-app crypto transfers

The Bottom Line

Crypto yield is quickly becoming one of the most accessible ways for growing one’s balance beyond traditional rates or just buying and holding.

For anyone exploring passive income crypto strategies without unnecessary complexity, strict limits, or fine print, Tap Earn offers a streamlined way to start generating rewards directly from those assets that already sit in your bag.

It's time you earn what you deserve. ✨

Blockchain platforms are a crowded space. Everyone claims to be faster, cheaper, and more scalable than the last. Avalanche is one of the few that actually has the receipts.

Built to tackle the blockchain trilemma  (scalability, decentralisation, and security) Avalanche doesn't pick two and hope for the best. It takes a different architectural approach entirely: three interoperable chains, a novel consensus mechanism, and transaction speeds that leave most competitors in the dust.

Whether you're a developer looking for a serious platform to build on, or just trying to figure out what AVAX actually is and why people care, this is where to start.

TLDR

• High-speed, scalable blockchain: Avalanche processes up to 4,500 TPS with sub-second finality, making it ideal for fast, scalable dapps and custom blockchains.
• Three-chain architecture: Utilizes the X-Chain (asset creation), C-Chain (EVM-compatible smart contracts), and P-Chain (validator coordination and subnets) for optimal performance.
• Interoperability & customisation: Developers can build permissioned or permissionless subnets with cross-chain communication and optional compliance features.
• Strong ecosystem growth: Backed by major funding rounds ($42M in 2020, $230M in 2021) and adopted by projects like BiLira and institutional-grade applications.

What is the Avalanche network all about?

Created by Ava Labs in 2018 and co-founded by Emin Gün Sirer, a professor of computer science at Cornell University, Avalanche launched its mainnet in September 2020. 

It enables anyone to build decentralised applications (dapps) and customised blockchain networks (called subnets). However, the claim that it allows non-technical users to build blockchains without technical knowledge is overstated, some technical understanding is typically required.

Its goal is to overcome some of the traditional blockchain's drawbacks, such as sluggish transaction speeds, centralisation, and scalability—and it uses several new ideas to achieve this. Its own Avalanche consensus mechanism, for example, delivers low latency, high-throughput capabilities, and resistance to 51% attacks, all with minimal transaction fees.

In September 2020, just two months after raising $42 million in a token sale that sold out in less than five hours, Avalanche launched its mainnet. Polychain Capital and Three Arrows Capital then led a $230 million funding round for Avalanche in June 2021 through a private token sale. 

According to DeFiLlama, Avalanche ranked among the top five blockchains by Total Value Locked (TVL) in 2021, following other top blockchain networks like Ethereum. At the time of writing, it sits in the top 15 biggest cryptocurrencies based on market capitalisation. 

How does the Avalanche blockchain work?

Avalanche's core architecture involves a system of three interoperable blockchains: the Exchange Chain (X-Chain), Contract Chain (C-Chain), and Platform Chain (P-Chain).

X-Chain - used for the creation and exchange of digital assets.

C-Chain - based on the Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM), this allows for the creation of smart contracts.

P-Chain - responsible for coordinating validators and creating subnets

The X-Chain is secured by the DAG-optimised "Avalanche" consensus, a secure and scalable protocol that can execute transactions in seconds. While the "Snowman" consensus guards the P-Chain and C-Chain blockchains, allowing for fast and secure smart contracts. 

By splitting its architecture across three separate blockchains, Avalanche promises to deliver flexibility, speed, and security without any sacrifices. Because developers have a lot of freedom when it comes to the kinds of dapps they can create, this makes it an ideal platform for both individual and enterprise applications.

Avalanche created AVAX to be the utility token across the ecosystem, used for paying network fees, staking, and providing a "basic unit of account" between Avalanche subnets.

The advantages of the Avalanche platform

According to Ava Labs, the network can process about 4,500 transactions per second (TPS) compared to around 7 TPS for Bitcoin and 14 TPS for Ethereum. It's also capable of executing transactions within three seconds. This makes it a superior platform on which to build massively scaling decentralised applications that would otherwise be limited on many other platforms.

Beyond that, Avalanche is designed to address another major issue facing blockchain-based systems today: interoperability. This is done by allowing blockchains in different subnets to communicate with one other, allowing them to combine forces and enable cross-chain value transfers.

It's also incredibly open. While most proof-of-stake blockchains limit the number of validators that may join in reaching consensus, Avalanche allows everyone staking at least 2,000 AVAX to participate.

Avalance's biggest competitor as of May 2022 is Ethereum. Although Avalanche employs the Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM), it uses a different consensus mechanism to safeguard the network and supports cross-chain value transfers without the need for bridges.

In March 2022, Avalanche announced a $290 million fund, the Avalanche Multiverse, to help development teams use subnets in their Avalanche-based projects. Subnets are designed to connect individual projects built on Avalanche to the Avalanche mainnet through the use of individual chains. This ensures scalability can be achieved without compromising speed and affordability. 

Subnets may also be modified to include Know Your Customer (KYC) features, allowing traditional financial institutions to expand on Avalanche.

Avalanche use cases

The Avalanche network allows anybody or any company to quickly set up their own bespoke blockchain network using the Avalanche consensus protocol, whether for private use cases (permissioned blockchains) or public ones (permissionless).

It is one of the first platforms to use a hybrid of custom-built blockchains and a strong proof-of-stake consensus mechanism in order to create an extremely decentralised and powerful platform for developers to build on.

Due to the network's compatibility with Ethereum, developers can easily transfer their Ethereum-based dapps to the Avalanche ecosystem and launch a wide range of dapps using their own Avalanche blockchain. This provides them with more control over the dapp’s function and security, as well as who can access them.

In its short history, Avalanche's technology has been put to good use by a growing number of organisations—including those in the prediction markets, private securities. Even stablecoin industries like BiLira, the Turkish Lira stablecoin, is taking advantage of the Avalanche consensus protocol. 

Bottom Line

Avalanche isn't just another blockchain making big promises. The architecture is genuinely different, the speeds are real, and the developer ecosystem has had enough time to prove it isn't hype. Whether it ultimately displaces Ethereum or carves out its own lane alongside it, AVAX has earned its place in the conversation.

Where to Get AVAX

If you're ready to add AVAX to your portfolio, you can find it on Tap, alongside a wide range of other cryptocurrencies.

Savings accounts haven't changed in decades, but the cost of everything else has. Rent's up. Groceries cost more. A coffee costs what lunch used to. And your savings account? Still paying you next to nothing while the bank lends your money out and keeps the difference.

Most savings accounts pay around 0.4% APY. That's $4 a year on $1,000.Even the fintech "high-yield" ones barely push past 3%, and they still come with the usual catches, fine prints, and withdrawal limits. 

Meanwhile, the official inflation rate keeps running higher. When inflation runs higher than your interest rate, you're losing purchasing power every year. Your savings shrink, even if the number in your account slowly ticks up.

It should be easier to save for your holidays, that nicer car, or your dream house down payment. That's why we built Tap Earn.

‍

A Better Way to Earn

Tap Earn offers up to 7% APY, that's nearly 18x what most banks pay and double what fintechs offer out there.

Your interest compounds daily and pays out every week, straight into your balance. No waiting for end-of-month statements, no quarterly or year cycles, no lockup. Every Monday, your balance is higher than it was on Friday. Not a bad way to start the week.

And unlike your bank, you don't have to guess what you've earned. Open the app anytime and see exactly how much interest you've made, down to the cent.

‍What Can You Earn On?

Tap Earn launches with USDT, USDC, BTC, ETH, XRP, and SOL. More of your favorite assets are on the way.

We're not trying to list everything under the sun. Every asset we add has to meet one standard: can we offer a rate worth your time? If we can't give you a good rate on it, we won't add it just to pad a menu. Quality over quantity. Your earnings come first.‍

Deposit From Anywhere

Accessibility matters most to us, earning should be easy no matter how you deposit. With Tap, you can deposit money anytime, anywhere, using whatever method you like best. Tap supports bank transfers and debit cards, from majors to stablecoins to the long tail most platforms don't bother supporting. You don't need to move your life around to start earning.  Link your existing bank account in minutes and start earning higher rates on your savings without switching banks or opening new accounts here and there. 

Your money is yours, and you should be able to access it when you need it. You can withdraw with no penalties, take out what you want, when you want.‍

Time to Start Earning

Tap is trusted by 400,000+ users across 40+ countries and is publicly listed on the London Stock Exchange. This isn't a startup in someone's garage.

Ready to get started? Download the app, or head to the app and simply find the "Earn" tab from the hub.

It's time to earn what you deserve.

See you inside.

‍

‍

Staying on top of the crypto market can feel like a full-time job at times. One tab for prices. Another for charts. A different site for news. Then back to your app to actually make a move. Before you know it, you’re juggling five platforms just to understand what’s going on.

That’s exactly the problem we set out to solve.

Introducing the Markets Center, your new go-to space inside Tap to track, explore, and understand the market, all without leaving the app.

No More Tab-Hopping 🫨

If you’ve ever found yourself bouncing between apps just to check prices, trends, and headlines, you’re not alone.

Crypto moves fast, and keeping up often means relying on multiple tools and platforms, many of which can feel overwhelming or inconsistent.

The Markets Center brings everything together. Instead of piecing information from different places, you can now get a clear, real-time snapshot of the market in one view, right where you already manage your crypto.

A Smarter Way to Read the Market

The Markets Center is designed to give you insights at a glance, without drowning you in complexity.

Here’s what you’ll find:

• Top movers: Instantly see which assets are making the biggest moves.
• Top gainers & losers: Quickly understand where momentum is going.
• New listings: Stay updated on the latest tokens entering the market.
• Full asset list: Browse and sort by market cap, volume, price changes, and more, tailored to how you want to explore.
• Built-in news feed: Get updates from reliable sources, all in one place, without second-guessing credibility.

It’s everything you need to stay informed, and then some.

Your Market Pulse, at a Glance

Let’s face it, too much data can be just as frustrating as too little.

When it comes to crypto, it’s easy to get overwhelmed with too many indicators, charts, and metrics, which may be useful but not always practical for everyday use.

Sometimes, all you want is a quick answer to one question:

“What’s the market doing right now?”

With the Markets Center, that answer is always a tap away. From the hottest cryptos to the latest news, you can get a feel for the market in seconds, no deep dives needed.

Designed with You in Mind

The Markets Center is your go-to place if you want to:

• Stay informed without the visual overload
• Track the market without switching apps
• Cut through the clutter with a curated feed of news

Everything you need to stay ahead, without the extra effort.

How to Access Markets Center ✨

Getting started is effortless:

• Open your Tap app
• Head to the Markets Center tab (right next to the Home tab)
• Scroll and explore movers, assets, and news in one place

That’s it. No setup or additional configuration needed. You get instant access to a curated news feed and live market data.

Ready to Simplify Your Crypto Experience?

With Markets Center, you don’t need five tabs open to understand the market anymore. 

Whether you want to scrutinize the charts or simply keep your finger on the market’s pulse, all you need to do is open the app and the Markets Center will be ready for you with everything you need. Because staying on top of crypto shouldn’t feel complicated.

‍

The crypto market is cooling after adding over $200 billion in total value in just a few weeks. While traditional assets are stalling, crypto has overperformed, signaling a massive shift in momentum.

🔎 Market Overview

₿ BTC / USD · Price:

Price: $74,073

24h change: ▼ −0.65%

Range: $73,549 – $76,061

⚖️ Sentiment · Fear & Greed Index:

Score: 52 / 100

Status: Neutral

Sentiment tag: Cautiously Bullish

🌍 Global Crypto Market Cap:

Market cap: $2.51T

24h change: ▼ −0.9%

📊 Bitcoin Dominance:

BTC dominance: 59.2% ▲ +0.64%

ETH dominance: 11.2% ▲ +0.26%

Others: 29.6% ▼ −0.91%

💡 Today’s Spotlight

Ether (ETH) | $2,321 (+3.1% Weekly)

ETH has been outpacing Bitcoin. The surge is fueled by institutional demand, with Spot ETH ETFs now holding over $13 billion. As geopolitical tensions begin to stabilize, ETH seems to be leading the "risk-on" charge.

• Level to watch: Watch the $2,400 resistance.

Enjin (ENJ) | $0.06717 (+226.5% Weekly)

ENJ is the wildcard of the week, pulling off a massive +193% rally over the last 7 days. While it saw a slight pullback from its recent local high of $0.069, the trading volume remains at record levels for 2026.

• The backdrop: The "gaming rotation" is real. ENJ is benefiting from its active Multiverse campaign, keeping utility high even when the broader market is volatile.

📊 Market Dynamics

🔥 Liquidation en Masse

The recent move near $75,000 triggered a massive squeeze, with $540 million in short positions wiped out this week.

• The Squeeze: Short-position losses accounted for roughly 81% of total liquidations. Ethereum bears felt the heat specifically, with $143 million in ETH shorts liquidated as the price trended upward. This forced buying has acted as a "propeller," accelerating the rally.

🎯 The L1 Recovery

This week’s winner isn't just one coin; it's the Layer 1 Ecosystem.

• Solana (SOL) and Chainlink (LINK) are both riding Ethereum’s coattails, gaining over 5% today. When the "foundation" (ETH) moves, the "architecture" (L1s/L2s) usually follows.

Yesterday, Bitcoin reclaimed $70,000. Ether went up over 5%. Cardano, Chainlink, and a handful of other alts began posting their best gains in days. If you've been watching the market and wondering what just happened, this is your breakdown. We'll walk through the macro forces that sparked the move, what the charts are saying, and the extra fuel that helped push prices higher. By the end, you'll know exactly what to watch next.

The Macro Picture: What Sparked the Rally

Ceasefire Hopes Are Shifting the Mood

Markets have been on edge for weeks, with geopolitical tensions in the Middle East keeping a lid on risk appetite across the board. That changed on Monday morning when new reports suggested the odds of a ceasefire between key parties in an ongoing regional conflict are rising.

The effect was immediate and broad. Oil dropped from Friday's close, stock futures climbed, and crypto surged, with Bitcoin hitting a weekly high above $70,000. Gold, the go-to safe haven in times of fear, barely moved. That's telling: when gold flatlines and risk assets rally, it means investors aren't fleeing exactly.

But the Rally Has a Ceiling… For Now

Here's where the situation gets more nuanced. Ceasefire rumors is not the same as a ceasefire. Analysts are clear on this: until the Strait of Hormuz is physically reopened and ships are moving through it again, the underlying risk premium doesn't fully disappear.

This same pattern, optimism followed by a fade, has played a few times since late March. Each time, the rally ran out of steam when the news didn't materialise into action.

What the Prediction Markets Are Pricing In

Prediction markets offer a useful real-time read on how informed participants are actually positioning. On Myriad, the probability of a ceasefire in the first half of the year jumped by over 10% on Monday, a meaningful move, but still sits at around 46% at the time of writing. In other words, the market sees it as more likely than not that this doesn't fully resolve in the near term.

On the crypto side, Myriad users assign a 45% chance that Bitcoin's next major move is a rally to $84,000, while crude oil currently carries an 87% probability of pushing to $120 per barrel. Taken together, these figures capture the mood perfectly: growing optimism, but genuine uncertainty about whether this is the move that sticks.

What the Charts Are Saying

The Supply Wall That Bitcoin Needs to Break Through

If the macro picture explains why sentiment may have shifted, the technical picture explains exactly where Bitcoin is in its recovery. And right now, it's at a critical juncture. The UTXO Realized Price Distribution, or URPD, maps how much Bitcoin supply was last moved at each price level, essentially showing where holders' cost bases sit. Right now, an important supply cluster is sitting right at the current price range around $69,422.

Think of it as a wall of potential sellers, all sitting at roughly breakeven, who may look to exit if price touches their entry. That's the resistance Bitcoin keeps running into.

What’s the encouraging part? Above that wall, the road clears up significantly. Supply concentration drops to 1.3% at $70,685, then thins out considerably all the way to around $84,000, where the next dense cluster appears. If Bitcoin can punch through the first wall, there's a lot of open space before the next major obstacle.

The Price Levels to Watch This Week

Here's a clean map of the key levels, both to the upside and downside:

•        $69,00: The immediate hurdle. An 8-hour close above this level would signal that the supply cluster didn't sell into this rally.

•        $72,000: The swing high from the March 17–25 range. A close above this confirms Bitcoin has broken out of the consolidation zone that has contained it for weeks.

•        $68,600: Immediate support. The first line of defence if the rally loses momentum.

•        $66,600: The key floor, tested multiple times since late March.

The Extra Catalysts

Macro optimism set the stage and the technicals provided the structure. But two additional factors acted as accelerants, turning what might have been a modest bounce into one of the more significant intraday moves in recent weeks.

A Short Squeeze Added Rocket Fuel

When ceasefire hopes hit the wires, crypto markets were sitting in "extreme fear" territory, the kind of sentiment environment where a high number of traders are betting on prices falling. That setup is what traders call spring-loaded: the worse the sentiment, the more violent the snap-back if it reverses.

And snap back it did. Over $200 million in short positions were liquidated in a single 24-hour window; four times more than long liquidations. When traders who are short a market get forced to buy back their positions at a loss, those forced purchases pile on top of organic buying and push prices up faster and further than the underlying catalysts alone would justify. This is the textbook short squeeze, and it's a significant reason why the move was as sharp as it was.

Morgan Stanley's Bitcoin ETF Is Entering the Arena

Layered on top of all of this: Morgan Stanley is launching a spot Bitcoin ETF on April 8, and it's coming in aggressively, undercutting BlackRock's market-leading IBIT fund with a 0.14% expense ratio versus IBIT's 0.25%.

When one of the world's largest wealth managers enters the Bitcoin ETF space at a competitive fee and undercuts the current market leader on price, it tells you something about where institutional conviction is heading. It also widens the on-ramp for large capital allocators who had been sitting on the sidelines.

The Bottom Line

Many forces converged on Monday to push crypto sharply higher. The result is Bitcoin testing the $70,000 resistance level once again, many altcoins posting 5–7% gains, and over $60 billion added to the total crypto market cap in 24 hours.

The market is showing real fight. Whether that fight turns into a sustained breakout depends on a few things: whether the geopolitical situation moves from hopeful reports to actual confirmation, and whether big buyers step in with conviction above $70,000. A clean close above this level is the first sign to watch for — and for that, there's no better place than the Markets Center on Tap, where you can check on your favorite cryptos and get the latest news in real time!

‍