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# Video eRiCgEuIQ7Y

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## Summary

This video presents six essential crypto research tools for investors seeking to find the next big opportunity through fundamental analysis. The creator emphasizes that mastering these tools allows users to discover projects before the hype, evaluate tokenomics, and avoid scams. The tools range from broad trackers like CoinGecko to specialized platforms for DeFi and token unlock schedules.

### Key Points

- **CoinGecko: The Essential Crypto Tracker** [01:08] — CoinGecko tracks over 10,000 coins and provides metrics like market cap, fully diluted valuation, 24-hour trading volume, and a markets tab to find legitimate exchanges and avoid scams.
- **TradingView: Mastering the Charts** [04:41] — TradingView is the industry-standard charting tool used by all major exchanges. Knowing how to read candlesticks, adjust timeframes, and switch between log/linear charts is crucial.
- **DexTools: DeFi-Specific Analysis** [06:20] — DexTools is essential for DeFi tokens on Uniswap/PancakeSwap. It provides price charts, a trust score to detect honeypots/rug pulls, and liquidity analysis.
- **DefiLlama: Finding Yield Farming Alpha** [09:17] — DefiLlama helps find passive income opportunities by filtering for specific tokens, no impermanent loss pools, and ranking by TVL or APY (e.g., 25% APY on KyberSwap for ETH).
- **CoinMarketCap: Tracking Upcoming Events** [12:17] — CoinMarketCap's calendar filter allows users to find upcoming events (upgrades, forks, airdrops) for top coins, providing early alpha before others discuss them.
- **Token Unlocks: Avoiding Dump Risks** [14:03] — Token Unlocks shows when locked tokens from investors/team are released, helping assess dilution risk. It can reveal if a bullish event is timed to offset a token unlock.

## Transcript

crypto research tools to find the next big opportunity every crypto content research because if you want to be a better crypto investor you need to know where to find the best information to evaluate crypto projects if you actively
study the metrics of new projects and look for early news and big events you'll drastically increase your chances of finding the next big opportunity Channel where I teach you how to build wal in crypto one thing all great crypto
how to research projects so they can find information before the hype knowing how to do research drastically increases your chances of buying in before a price spike or selling before a token dump and no crypto research isn't the same as
technical analysis on a price chart in fact you don't have to be a TA expert at all to do great crypto research rather I like to analyze the more fundamental aspects of a project which is a much better long-term indicator of future
prices and building true wealth so if you learn to use the six tools that I'll have a much better understanding of fundamental analysis and how to spot the latest trends in crypto and ultimately find the best investment opportunities
are you ready hit the Subscribe button and let's go to start the first and probably most commonly used tool is coin gecko this is a very popular type of crypto currency tracker tool for all the altcoins out there you don't necessarily
have to use coin Geto there are similar ones like coin market cap live coin watch nomics these all do the same thing essentially what this is is a list of all the available cryptocurrencies out there mainly a couple reasons why you
need to use a tool like coin gecko first of all this is a full list of all the coins so if you heard of any new coin by their name you can always search it up here so I use this search functionality every day and let's say you are looking
up Aptos when it first launched when you go on a specific coins page so aside from having the price which you can see on every exchange it also has metrics like market cap which is how big the total valuation is right now for the
project fully diluted valuation which is when all the token Supply comes out how much is the total valuation so this is including the current token that are circulating plus how much the Insiders and the early investors control also
really important is the 24-hour trading volume when the trading volume is very high from all the exchanges you know that people are actively speculating on this coin and you can use that metric to kind of know there's some Recon news
happening or people are either overly bullish or overly bearish right now for this coin and that can act as a signal for you to look into it more on the right hand side here you also have a lot of the information for the project for
example the website you can have uh all the wallets that have this support this coin you can check out the Explorer which shows you all the transactions of this coin the communities the Twitter Discord media and blogs very useful to
and if you have questions you can ask them there and you can even find the source code on GitHub if you want to to see the developer uh community and activity and then down here you have a historical price chart you can find
these things on trading view however keep in mind that sites like coin gecko tracks thousands of coins I think coin Geo has more than 10,000 coins versus if you go on just trading view you cannot find all the coins on there and trading
view because it tracks buy exchange not by coin so you don't see the whole by coin so you don't see the whole history of a specific coin versus um coin Geo because they keep track of all the exchanges out there and Aggregates
them you see the entire press history for the coin and this comes from an average level of all the exchanges and speaking of exchanges another very very important tab here on coino is the markets tab so whenever you find a new
coin that you want to buy you would go on coin gecko search up the coins uh here you can see all the available exchanges that have this coin for example AP for trading these are the exchanges you can go to buy the coin why
do I always use this instead of just searching it up that's because there's so many fake coins out there fake socials scams out there that if you just look up where to buy Aptos on Google you will get a bunch of fakes and you don't
know which ones are real and also on top of that you can see all the exchanges ranked by for example their trading volume so you can see if if I want to buy Aptos uh the best place would be upbit binance okx Etc going down the
list so that that's all the alpha I have on coin Geto this is the absolute must-have tool to learn and master for every crypto investor the second tool you should get familiar with is trading view trading view is a tool that you
absolutely need to master when investing in crypto this is the kind of charting tool that you see here on the screen this is because trading view is the number one charting solution for all the exchanges all the platforms portfolio
whenever you are looking at the price level for a coin whether that's on binance trading view okx coinbase you know your portfolio tracker they all use the same interface that's why you need to be familiar with looking at trading
View and knowing what this chart represents knowing that okay the current price of Bitcoin is 2,390 I am looking at a weekly chart so every one of these candles is a week that's all very crucial information when
you're looking at uh even long-term chart here like each candle representing a week this is clearly not for day trading purposes but if you do not know you go on any exchange you'll be confused so that's why knowing how to
use trading View and understanding at least what the candles mean how you can adjust the time frames by going through you know looking at Daily charts and each candle representing a day versus a week if you want to look at longterm or
if you're trying to look at shortterm how the coin is doing on a day-to-day basis you can look at 4our chart or 1 hour chart and you can see if it's fluctuating a lot these are all key knowledge key skills that you need to
have whether you're trading or investing knowing the basic indicators and absolutely knowing how to read candlesticks how to read the time scale the price scale and switching between log chart Auto chart all these things
really really useful because trading view is the default software that powers with it on a day-to-day basis the next tool I wanted to show you guys is called tool I wanted to show you guys is called Dex tools this tool is the most useful
if you plan to trade on defi platforms such as Unis swap Sushi swap pancake such as Unis swap Sushi swap pancake swap Etc this tool is a little bit of a add-on on top of coin gecko because coin gecko while it tracks all of the
existing coins out there on centralized exchanges plus some major decentralized exchanges it doesn't have necessarily all of the data if you're dealing with very defi heavy platforms and projects Dex tool
uh compliments that because it only focuses on projects that trade on decentralized exchanges such as Unis swap so let's say you want to trade some Sheba enu bone token first off you can see very clearly the price chart here
and this price chart doesn't come from like a binance exchange or some big exchange rather it's an accurate price tracker of Bon's performance on Unis swap so this right away is very useful
because if you have a coin that only trades on Unis swap pancake swap etc those native platforms don't have a charging software so you can't really see the price history on Unis swap but you can see it on Dex tools it gives you
the option to swap some ethereum or any other coin for bone but you can also decentralized exchange link and do it there if you don't trust this website under uh this section it has a DEX tools score so this not only tracks How Deep
The liquidity is but it also has more properties such as is this pool potentially a Honeypot for example when you buy this token it's a fake token and you can't withdraw or it will steal your money just because it's programmed that
way so it checks for those automatically this is a token with and the pool with a really high trust score but if it does have a lower trust score it would say like 50 or something then it would have a whole list of the red flags for
example you know 90% of the liquidity is owned by one player and that person has not locked that liquidity meaning it's potentially a rock pool after you buy in you can no longer sell those common scamming Behavior scam project patterns
will be recognized so when you have a new project or new token that's heavily def focused that trades on decentralized exchanges it's best to go on Dex tools typing either the ticker name or the token contract address and figure out if
their liquidity pools are healthy if their decentralized exchange activity is healthy and that can act as somewhat of a good way to judge if the token is legit if you want to be a power user in defi in decentralized exchanges
something like Dex tools is a must have because it's much earlier than coin gecko so it has much more newer opportunities and potentially High uh risk High return o opportunities that's why Dex tools is also a must-have tool
if you want to get serious in crypto investing I'll talk a lot more about decentralized exchanges on my channel so subscribe if you haven't yet the fourth tool to master is defi llama this is the best tool for anyone who wants to get
involed D with Defi and passive income another big part of crypto investing is with defi with getting extra rewards for your token instead of just trading them and betting that the price will go up in the future so when you do defi
activities what you're more chasing is where can you get extra staking apy or farming apy on top of your existing assets number one tool that I like to go to all the time now is defi llama so on the left here you have yield and this is
where you can go and find how you can have extra apy rewards on top of so how you can use this is click on yields and click on pools and let's say you are holding ethereum and you want to see how much extra rewards can I get per
year on top of staking ethereum then you can filter by ethereum as the token and then you can go to attributes and click on no iil which means no impermanent basically it shows you all the
opportunities out there that only takes ethereum as the main principal asset so basically it means your principal asset ethereum is protected if you deposit 100 ethereum after a year you still get out 100 ethereums worth that doesn't change
whatever goes on top is just extra rewards after that you can Rank by either tvl which is which Protocols are most widely adopted or you can Rank by apy which is how high the rewards can be and you can see here you can get up to
and you can see here you can get up to 93% apy for just depositing eth now keep underutilized pool because you can tell there's only $330,000 deposited in in something else you could do is filter by the tvl so let's say you want to filter
by all the pools that have at least $1 million deposited in the pool so you can see these are all decently utilized pools with decent amount of money in there and you can see right now that's still really high returns so on kyber
swap a pretty big decentralized exchange there is 25% extra yield that you can get on top of ethereum that's crazy right that's super high rewards so if I have some ethereum right now I will go and do this pool this not only works for
tokens out there you can choose tedar usdt usdc B&B Bitcoin Matic Solana whatever and then you can find all the because it includes so many different types of platforms out there some of
them can be not so secure but if you combine this with your own fundamental knowledge of which projects are legit if you take those combinations and do your except exceptionally good opportunities here for passive income on top of your
existing crypto Holdings by far the number one best place to find new farming Alpha is with defi Lama defi is one of the best ways to make passive learn more check out my previous video All About passive income link is in the
description the fifth tool is coin Market cow and it's perfect for finding crypto Alpha and upcoming events when you're investing in crypto you need to track the most important updates and events happening to all the coins if you
everyone else you can get in early and potentially generate some profits the best tool to use for this is coin Market cow this is one of the longest running websites in all crypto that tracks all the upcoming events how I like to use
this site is using this filter section I usually go for at least the top 300 coins sometimes even the top 100 because I I want to filter for the most legit coins and then I would choose the major categories uh Point here so this only
exchange list things big updates releases major partnership Forks swap you know airdrop staking launch Etc toonomic big role map and then do a search again and you can see okay flow has a consensus upgrade great secret
free to Min launch that sounds interesting for some sort of nft integration secret network has another live Alpha okay they're working fcoin has fcoin evm this is big soon I think you'll be able to use metamask and other
ethereum wallets with fcoin that's huge and that's in February I didn't didn't video flux has a block reward having that could be good for the tokenomics what else Cosmos has a Lambda upgrade that sounds like a big Tech upgrade Yos
has trust evm again this is a ethereum evm wallet integration you can see you can find some really big Alpha up here that are two three months down in the future that nobody have talked about yet on YouTube Twitter whatever you can just
find them with the filter search share so this is the number one way I like to find upcoming Catalyst events in crypto just by doing this you can generate a lot of Insider information early information for yourself the last tool I
want to show you is token unlocks this is great for finding potential token dumping before it happens when you're investing in crypto you not only have the projects coins that are trading on the exchanges but also most coins out
there have allocations or certain amount of tokens in the hands of early investors Venture Capital investors Angel Investors team advisers Foundation Etc that are locked and are slowly released later on this is a very common
mechanism just like traditional web2 companies investing where they have shares that are not trading before their IPO or when their employees have a certain Cliff investing period based on how long they've stayed with the company
however with tokens because all the tokens start trading so early it's very important for you to keep track of how much tokens are later unlocked from the early investors tranches the best tool for this is called token unlocks let's
example dydx one of the most popular decentralized exchanges you can see that there is a current market cap of $200 million for dydx these are all tokens trading on the exchanges but the fully
diluted valuation is actually 1.4 billion meaning there are $1.2 billion of loged tokens but later on down the line they can get these tokens and they can sell them you can see here 76% of all the tokens accounting to this high
percentage is still locked and down here you can see the investing schedule which shows you time by time how many tokens are distributed to all the inv now for are distributed to all the inv now for dydx 77% of tokens still being locked is
kind of a bad thing because as you buy the token at this price for example over a period of time more tokens will be unlocked by early investors and they can sell these tokens the next unlock event is in 16 days happening on February 2nd
how you can use this tool is two ways so first is as a due diligence tool so all the projects out on here will have a clear percentage breakdown of how much tokens are allocated to early investors to the foundation Etc if you see
anything fishy for example 50% of the tokens are allocated to early investors and only 10% are for public retail Traders that's a big no no but you can check out all the projects on here and make your own decisions second thing is
to actually track when the unlocks happen so let's say you are planning to invest in dydx just hypothetically because you know that there's some big upgrade coming this month well before you buy in just based on that event it's
also Worth to come on this site and figure out okay along with this big release of dydx is there some big token unlock happening behind the scenes if there is any then chances are that bullish event happening might be
compensated negatively by that token unlocking so this could be potentially why they have planned these major product releases around these token unlocks so in that case maybe your investment decision can be changed or
even more a lot of projects end up having the tokens already trade at hand and the team is actually in it for the long term so how can you see that actually playing out well you can track all the previous unlock if the token's
unlocked but you know the token price didn't actually crash when when the even more confidence to believe that the team is in it for the long term these can play around with these token unlocking information not only for due
diligence but also you can figure out if there are any looming unlocking risks uh that could happen to the potential coin that you're interested in token unlocks another really good tool that you can find uh token investing uh due diligence
information for all kinds of big projects out there so now you know six of the best crypto research tools you can use to find your own crypto Alpha if you can Master these six tools you'll be able to do your own research and figure
out if a new project is legit and even discover new opportunities before everyone else this way you won't have to wait for the masses to Pile in on the next popular narrative sure knowing what other people are talking about on social
media is helpful but you don't want to rely 100 % on someone else's ideas take tools so you can find your own investment ideas and become a much more content to help you find information before everyone else head on
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