1) TradingView: professional charts, screeners, and programmable alerts
TradingView gives you multi-asset charting, community indicators, screeners, and flexible, condition-based alerts you can set on prices, indicators, drawings, and strategy events. It’s the backbone for timing entries and exits across spot and derivatives. Use it to centralize watchlists and route alerts to app, email, or webhooks.
2) CoinGecko: independent market data, portfolios, and price alerts
CoinGecko tracks prices, liquidity, markets, and derivatives venues, and offers a free portfolio tracker with mobile support and configurable alerts. Its API covers live/historical prices and even on-chain DEX data—handy for custom sheets or bots.
3) Glassnode Studio: on-chain metrics and investor dashboards
For fundamentals beyond price, Glassnode provides Bitcoin/Ethereum entity metrics, supply dynamics, fees, and more, packaged in Studio dashboards with alerting on higher tiers. It’s useful for spotting accumulation/distribution, spend behavior, and chain stress.
4) DeFiLlama: cross-chain DeFi TVL, volumes, and stablecoin flows
DeFiLlama aggregates total value locked across chains and protocols, with sections for chain metrics, DEX and perps volume, and stablecoin market caps. It’s ideal for tracking liquidity migration, sector rotation, and protocol share without ads or sponsored listings.
5) Etherscan: explorer essentials, gas oracle, and token pages
When you need transaction-level truth, Etherscan remains the standard: decode transactions, check token contracts and holders, and plan transactions with the gas tracker and API gas oracle. It’s also a quick way to validate a token’s contract and blue-check status.
6) DEX Screener: real-time decentralized markets in one pane
DEX Screener pulls live pairs, charts, and trades from many chains so you can follow liquidity births, migrations, and early trend formation in DeFi. It’s especially helpful for monitoring new listings and cross-chain rotations without flipping among multiple DEX UIs.
7) CoinGlass: derivatives funding, open interest, and liquidations
If you trade perps or options, you need a quick pulse on funding rates, open interest, and liquidation maps. CoinGlass consolidates these across venues, helping you spot crowded positioning, funding regime shifts, and squeeze risk.
8) Messari: research, screeners, and token unlock tracking
Messari combines a robust screener with research and market intel, including token unlocks and governance tracking. Use it to filter assets by fundamentals, track narratives, and read comparable project reports before allocating.
9) Revoke.cash: manage token approvals to reduce smart-contract risk
Many DeFi apps require token approvals that persist until revoked. Revoke.cash scans your addresses across 100+ networks so you can review and revoke allowances and NFT approvals—an essential hygiene step for active traders.
10) Koinly: crypto tax reports and portfolio P&L
Taxes are part of investing. Koinly connects wallets and exchanges to compute gains, income, and country-specific reports (e.g., US Form 8949/Schedule D) and exports for popular filing software—useful for reconciling P&L and avoiding year-end chaos.
How to combine these tools into a clean weekly workflow
Start the week with a top-down scan: TVL and flows on DeFiLlama, derivatives positioning on CoinGlass, and chain health via Glassnode. Use Messari’s screener to short-list assets by fundamentals. Build setups in TradingView and route alerts. For entries on new tokens, confirm contracts on Etherscan and watch pair structure on DEX Screener. Log fills in your portfolio on CoinGecko, keep approvals tidy with Revoke.cash, and sync activity to Koinly so your P&L stays audit-ready.
Quick tips for safer, smarter usage
Prefer verified contracts and check gas before signing anything on-chain. Set alerts instead of doom-scrolling charts. Use portfolio and research tools to validate narratives before chasing momentum. Review token approvals monthly, and export a tax preview each quarter so surprises don’t force you to liquidate at a bad time.
FAQs
Which one tool should a beginner start with?
TradingView for charts and alerts, paired with a CoinGecko portfolio, covers 80% of daily needs; you can layer in on-chain (Glassnode) and DeFiLlama once you’re comfortable.
Do I need both DEX Screener and Etherscan?
Yes—DEX Screener is for discovery and live DEX trading context, while Etherscan is for verifying contracts, holders, and gas before interacting.
How often should I revoke approvals?
There’s no fixed rule, but active DeFi users often review monthly or after using a new protocol. Revoke.cash supports 100+ networks and common wallets, making this quick.
