DYOR Tool: 50 Tools to Help You Fully Analyze the Crypto World
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DYOR Tool: 50 Tools to Help You Fully Analyze the Crypto World
Every Web3 journey, whether trading, hunting for airdrops, or investing, requires thorough research.
Navigating Web3 tides with focused insightsAuthor: Stacy Muur
Translation: Snap Institute Team
This article introduces 50 tools focused on market insights, protocol analysis, and data interpretation. While platforms like DefiLlama, TokenTerminal, and Dune may already be familiar to many, there are numerous other tools tailored for specific research purposes worth exploring. Let's dive into these essential DYOR (Do Your Own Research) tools.
Fundamentals
Fundamental research involves analyzing a project to understand its core value, appeal, and potential. It focuses on key aspects such as product attractiveness, tokenomics, fundraising, and community engagement.
The goal is to assess whether a project has long-term growth potential based on these factors, rather than blindly following market trends.
01 Product Metrics
Below is a list of tools primarily used to study product metrics—such as Total Value Locked (TVL), active users, token holders, net cross-chain flows, trading volume, revenue dynamics, and treasury data—as well as to evaluate competitive landscapes.
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TokenTerminal currently tracks data from over 400 mature protocols and offers one of the most comprehensive analytical toolsets available. It also provides powerful tools for identifying data trends and shifts in fundamentals and market perception across Web3, both broadly and by specific parameters or categories.
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DefiLlama follows closely, tracking more than 3,000 protocols. If a protocol isn't listed on TokenTerminal, DefiLlama is an excellent alternative for accessing critical TVL, trading volume, and token metrics. It also enables easy comparison between protocols and visualizes their influence within specific categories or blockchain ecosystems.
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Next is Dune, which offers detailed dashboards summarizing fundamental data for most Web3 protocols.
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* Tip: If you can't find the data you need on Dune, check Footprint Analytics. It has a similar design to Dune and may include unique datasets.
Footprint Analytics's ZKsync Era dashboard
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When researching Ethereum Layer 2 solutions, L2Beat is likely the best tool, providing comprehensive data on the state of Ethereum rollups. For Bitcoin Layer 2, Bitcoin Layers is the closest equivalent to L2Beat.
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Nansen is another powerful on-chain analytics platform, covering over 35 networks and nearly 400 protocols. It allows users to track various aspects of networks, tokens, and NFTs, and even monitor investor and trader behavior. The downside is that most of its data requires a subscription.
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Artemis is a blockchain data science platform that monitors key project metrics—including financial, economic, and social data—covers statistics in specific Web3 domains, and specifically tracks developer activity.
02 Releases & News
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Messari stands out not only for offering fundamental data but also for aggregating the latest developments, news, and producing in-depth research reports. Although it’s a paid research tool, it is highly recommended.
Messari's Aptos: Latest News Dashboard
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CryptoPanic is a news aggregation and portfolio tracking platform designed for traders and crypto enthusiasts. It emphasizes how various events impact markets and prices, helping users follow crypto and related market news to assess their potential effect on asset prices and investor sentiment.
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CoinMarketCal serves as an economic calendar for crypto assets, enabling users to track key market events. Stay updated on new token listings, exchange launches, NFT collection releases, major events, and conferences.
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Coindar is another calendar tool for tracking projects, assets, and Web3 events. Similar to CoinMarketCal, it allows users to view important dates related to specific projects or tokens.
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Web3alerts is a platform specifically designed to receive important Web3 event data and notifications. It enables users to track new project launches and related updates. Investors and VCs can subscribe to ensure they receive direct alerts promptly.
03 Fundraising
Many platforms offer fundraising data, with DefiLlama being among the most popular. However, several other platforms are also worth exploring to uncover additional funding information.
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CryptoRank is an analytics platform designed to track various data points, including token, funding, and project metrics. It allows users to monitor project funding rounds, track top IDOs and ICOs, and discover current crypto airdrops. Additionally, it provides lists of ongoing and potential airdrops with tasks, detailed guides, and token unlock data.
CryptoRank's latest funding round data
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CypherHunter is a comprehensive database for the crypto world, akin to LinkedIn. It aggregates information on blockchain projects, key individuals in the space, and recent funding rounds.
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Crunchbase is a website that tracks detailed project information, including funding rounds, lead investors, and total funds raised. It also offers insights into employees, events, and potential contacts linked to founders.
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Crypto Fundraising is a valuable resource tracking the latest funding rounds, events, and news. It features projects not yet covered by other analytics platforms and provides a simple, accessible list of funding details and investor contact information.
04 Tokenomics
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Token Unlocks is a dedicated service for tracking token unlocks and tokenomic data. The platform allows users to filter projects and tokens to deeply analyze their potential and provides real-time monitoring of tokenomic data and upcoming supply unlock events.
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CoinBrain is an analytics platform offering both on-chain and off-chain data. It features multiple filters to help users discover newly created tokens, including new coin rankings, upcoming unlock lists, and search capabilities across multiple categories.
Project Discovery
Many of the previously mentioned tools are highly useful for protocol discovery and narrative filtering. In addition, there are several powerful multi-purpose dashboards that help assess the current market landscape and uncover new investment opportunities.
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ChainBroker is a service designed to track various financial metrics across networks and tokens. It enables users to analyze market conditions, investor activity, and platform engagement. The site also provides heatmaps in certain categories to visually assess the potential of networks and assets over time or during specific periods.
ChainBroker's protocol dashboard
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DYOR is another excellent platform for tracking DeFi movements, offering a set of leaderboard dashboards based on specific on-chain metrics.
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Moni Discover is a unique tool that leverages community following trends to help identify early-stage opportunities, ranging from meme coins to infrastructure projects.
Trading
This category can be divided into three directions: social and copy trading, meme coin trading, and market analysis.
01 Social Trading
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AlphaScan displays discussion frequency of specific tokens on a given date by monitoring market sentiment and tracking mentions of public chain coins and tokens on X. It also reveals potential earnings KOLs gain from recommending tokens. This information helps evaluate the trading potential of certain bloggers and communities and measure market热度 for specific assets.
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Cielo is a platform designed to monitor top traders and gain market insights. It provides basic notifications and analytics, allowing users to track other traders’ wallets and copy their trades accordingly.
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Scopescan, formerly Watchers, is the first on-chain analytics platform leveraging the 0xScope knowledge graph. It generates key relationship data in real time, offering comprehensive wallet activity insights, ranked lists of projects and tokens by activity and Total Value Locked (TVL), and intelligence on fund flows and smart money signals.
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Alphanomics is a multifunctional platform that helps users track real-time fund flows and trading activities on DEX chains to grasp current market trends. It provides live insights to uncover asymmetric investment opportunities, follow the strategies of the smartest traders and their wallets, and gain deep understanding of their portfolio management approaches.
Alphanomics's Smart Money DEX Flow
02 Meme Coin Trading
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To discover meme coins and other newly created trading pairs, the two most popular platforms are DexScreener and DEXTools. These platforms help locate optimal prices, liquidity, and activity levels for specific trading pairs and offer features such as wallet activity tracking.
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To detect potentially malicious functions in smart contracts, we recommend using Honeypot (supports Ethereum, BNB Chain, and Base), De.Fi, and SolidityScan.
03 Market Analysis
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TradingView is a leading platform widely used by global traders, renowned for its charts displaying trading pair data for thousands of assets across major exchanges. Users can customize chart layouts, add personal notes, and easily compare assets.
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CoinGecko and CoinMarketCap are among the most commonly used market data tracking platforms, both offering rich research centers for in-depth analysis.
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BlockchainCenter is a platform focused on delivering diverse visual charts and indicators to help users track and compare network data. It enables assessment of market conditions, asset status, and dominance of specific cryptocurrencies. Its visualizations are particularly effective in helping novice traders understand current market trends.
BlockchainCenter's Bitcoin Rainbow Price Chart
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Glassnode helps traders and investors anticipate key trends and turning points in digital assets. Focused on advanced blockchain and market data, it delivers unique insights into capital flows, asset fundamentals, and market sentiment for Web3 blue-chips. Glassnode also provides a range of economic, financial, and network metrics, along with industry reports and research.
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Coinglass is a comprehensive platform for tracking the financial state of various markets. It monitors crypto and other assets, including liquidations, long and short positions, and options trading, making it ideal for professional traders.
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CryptoBubbles presents a market map using bubbles, offering an intuitive interface. Users can easily track changes in market volume, identify which cryptocurrencies are actively rising or falling, view holder distribution for specific assets, and observe dynamic shifts.
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CryptoQuant is a powerful, community-driven market data research platform offering extensive in-depth studies and insights contributed by both the CryptoQuant team and its user base.
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MarketCapOf allows users to estimate what a cryptocurrency’s price would be if it reached the market cap of another. For example, if Ethereum had Bitcoin’s market cap, its price would be approximately $10,000.
Passive Income
Finding and managing optimal passive income pools can be challenging. Below are some tools to help you discover and manage these opportunities more effectively.
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Revert is a comprehensive exploration tool and UI designed specifically for AMM liquidity providers on Uniswap V2, V3, and Sushiswap. It helps investors track capital efficiency and perform data analysis.
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Other platforms specialized in discovering high-quality passive income opportunities include De.Fi and DefiLlama.
Airdrops
Although airdrop attention has waned compared to a year ago, for many users, it remains a significant source of passive income. As mentioned earlier, CryptoRank's toolkit can assist in discovering airdrops. Below are some platforms ideal for airdrop hunters.
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DropsTab is a versatile tool for tracking portfolios, analyzing markets, and discovering new airdrops. Its robust functionality allows it to replace multiple analytics tools simultaneously.
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Bankless offers services to track airdrops and promising projects, helping users decide which projects to participate in and allowing them to check unclaimed airdrops linked to their wallet addresses.
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Alpha Drops is a convenient platform dedicated to tracking airdrops across various Web3 sectors. It offers user-friendly filtering so users can select projects by domain. Each project page details available tasks, funding metrics, and project stage information—whether on testnet or mainnet.
Alpha Drops's Potential Airdrops tab
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AirdropsAlert is a dedicated website aggregating current and upcoming token airdrops, providing detailed steps required to participate. Users can sort airdrops by criteria such as KYC requirements to more easily find projects of interest.
Portfolio Tracking
Tracking a diversified portfolio across multiple blockchains, assets, and pools can be challenging. The following tools can help you manage your investments more efficiently on a daily basis.
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DeBank is a platform focused on portfolio tracking and wallet inspection. It monitors all assets in a wallet, tracks transaction history, and displays changes in historical net worth.
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CoinStats is a comprehensive portfolio tracking and analytics platform that allows users to monitor overall market asset conditions and view financial data within wallets. It also provides access to transaction histories across multiple networks and can identify scam transactions targeting your address.
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Arkham offers powerful tools linking cryptocurrency activity to real-world individuals and institutions. The platform can track operations of organizations, including large institutions and government entities.
Research
This section covers companies that consistently publish valuable market research, focusing on macro trends, narratives, or specific protocols. In addition to Messari, CryptoQuant, and Glassnode, here are some other recommended research sources.
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Delphi Digital is a research-driven company with a global team dedicated to accelerating and advancing cryptocurrency. It consists of three distinct entities—Research, Labs, and Ventures—that share the same brand and mission.
Delphi's featured reports
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Chainalysis is a leading blockchain analytics firm providing compliance and investigation tools for banks, crypto companies, and government agencies. It offers a suite of tools for transaction tracking, risk analysis, and data visualization.
Snap Institute Viewpoint
In the crypto market, in-depth research is key to successful investing. By leveraging a variety of tools, investors can gain more comprehensive market insights and analytical capabilities. This article lists 50 top-tier DYOR tools covering data analytics, trend monitoring, and social intelligence. These tools not only help users better understand market dynamics but also enhance the precision of investment decisions.
By wisely utilizing these tools, investors can delve deeper into the crypto world and seize potential investment opportunities. At the same time, as the market continues to evolve, maintaining a passion for learning and research is an essential trait for every crypto investor. With these DYOR tools, investors can navigate the complex crypto landscape with confidence and make smarter investment choices.
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