The List tracks the key crypto projects, trends, and market developments shaping the industry as a new wave of users enters the market.
The List gives readers a clearer way to navigate crypto as the market heats up again, bringing a new wave of users into a space filled with data that most people never learn how to access.
So I put together The List, covering research platforms, trading applications, analytics tools, and onchain software worth adding to your workflow.
The goal of The List is to help you better understand protocol fundamentals, wallet activity, market structure, technical charts, derivatives positioning, smart contracts, and security risks.
Whether you are researching your first token or refining an existing process, The List gives you tools that can help you make more informed decisions.
Each entry follows the same format:
Product | Official X account | Network coverage| What the product does and why it’s useful.
-> Feel free to share as it may help a few folks find their way around the space.
X: @DefiLlama | Networks: All indexed networks
As the first research platform in The List, DefiLlama provides a broad free starting point for DeFi research. It lets users compare TVL, fees, revenue, DEX volume, derivatives activity, stablecoins, bridges, yields, protocol raises, treasuries, and chain growth from one interface.
X: @Dune | Networks: 130+ supported blockchains
A community-driven blockchain analytics platform that lets researchers query onchain data with SQL and turn the results into dashboards, charts, APIs, and automated reports.
X: @MessariCrypto | Networks: Chain-agnostic crypto market coverage
A research and market-intelligence platform combining asset profiles, protocol metrics, governance tracking, screeners, token data, reports, and institutional research.
X: @glassnode | Networks: Bitcoin, Ethereum, and supported digital assets
A specialist onchain platform best known for entity-adjusted metrics, investor cost bases, realized value, holder behavior, exchange flows, supply distribution, and market-cycle analysis.
X: @cryptoquant_com | Networks: Bitcoin, Ethereum, stablecoins, and supported assets
An onchain and market-data platform built around exchange flows, miner activity, investor cohorts, derivatives data, alerts, proprietary indicators, and customizable dashboards.
X: @tokenterminal | Networks: All indexed protocols and networks
Standardizes protocols into financial metrics such as fees, revenue, earnings, active users, token incentives, valuation multiples, and market share. It is particularly useful for comparing crypto protocols like traditional businesses.
X: @santimentfeed | Networks: Multichain
Combines onchain data, social sentiment, developer activity, whale behavior, market metrics, and alerts to identify changes in investor attention and positioning.
X: @KaikoData | Networks: Global centralized, decentralized, and onchain markets
An institutional market-data platform covering trades, order books, liquidity, pricing, derivatives, benchmarks, market depth, and exchange quality.
X: @artemis | Networks: 50+ supported blockchains
A cross-chain fundamentals platform for comparing active addresses, transactions, stablecoin flows, application activity, developer behavior, and network economics.
X: @coinmetrics | Networks: Multichain
Provides network data, market data, indexes, reference rates, and institutional research. It is useful when transparent methodology and reproducible data matter as much as the final chart.
X: @SentoraHQ | Networks: Multichain DeFi markets
Sentora provides institutional DeFi intelligence, risk analytics, economic research, yield infrastructure, and portfolio-management tools.
X: @Delphi_Digital | Networks: Chain-agnostic research
A crypto-native research platform covering protocols, markets, token economics, infrastructure, gaming, consumer applications, and emerging investment narratives.
X: @blockworksres | Networks: Chain-agnostic research
Combines analyst research with protocol dashboards, governance coverage, financial metrics, podcasts, and institutional market commentary.
X: @TheBlock | Networks: Chain-agnostic research
Produces institutional reports, data dashboards, company analysis, ecosystem maps, market intelligence, and sector research across the digital-asset industry.
X: @coingecko | Networks: All listed assets, chains, and exchanges
A broad market-data platform covering prices, volume, market capitalization, exchanges, categories, token supply, historical performance, DEX markets, and API data.
X: @CoinMarketCap | Networks: All listed assets, chains, and exchanges
Tracks crypto prices, rankings, market capitalization, historical data, exchange activity, DEX pairs, trending tokens, categories, and market-wide performance.
X: @KaitoAI | Networks: Chain-agnostic information platform
An AI-powered crypto search and market-intelligence engine that indexes research, social media, governance discussions, podcasts, news, and market commentary to track narratives and attention.
X: @l2beat | Networks: Ethereum and its scaling ecosystem
The standard research platform for evaluating Ethereum scaling systems. It tracks value secured, activity, data availability, upgrade controls, operator risk, maturity, and decentralization.
X: @growthepie_eth | Networks: Ethereum mainnet and 27+ Ethereum scaling networks
Provides chain comparisons, application activity, fees, blockspace analytics, economics, data-availability usage, and open API access for the Ethereum ecosystem.
X: @Tokenomist_ai | Networks: Chain-agnostic token coverage
Tracks token unlocks, vesting schedules, emissions, allocations, circulating-supply changes, post-unlock performance, and tokenomics updates.
X: @nansen_ai | Networks: All supported networks
As part of the onchain analytics tools in The List, Nansen labels wallets and entities to identify smart money, funds, exchanges, profitable traders, token holders, and emerging capital flows across supported chains.
X: @arkham | Networks: All supported networks
Maps blockchain addresses to real-world entities and provides wallet portfolios, transaction histories, visual fund flows, alerts, dashboards, and an intelligence marketplace.
X: @DeBankDeFi | Networks: Supported EVM networks
A multichain portfolio tracker for viewing wallet balances, DeFi positions, debt, transaction history, protocol exposure, and social connections from one address.
X: @zerion | Networks: 60+ networks, including Ethereum, Solana, Tron, Base, Polygon, Optimism, and Arbitrum
A wallet and portfolio interface that tracks tokens, NFTs, DeFi positions, transactions, and cross-chain activity while also supporting swaps and wallet execution.
X: @etherscan | Network: Ethereum
Ethereum’s primary block explorer. Users can search transactions, addresses, tokens, contracts, logs, gas data, approvals, verified source code, and network statistics.
X: @solscanofficial | Network: Solana
A Solana explorer for analyzing accounts, tokens, validators, programs, transactions, DeFi activity, NFTs, and token-holder distribution.
X: @bubblemaps | Networks: All supported networks
Visualizes token-holder relationships as interactive clusters, making it easier to identify connected wallets, bundled supply, insider concentration, and suspicious distribution patterns.
X: @spotonchain | Networks: Multichain
Uses wallet labels, alerts, dashboards, and AI-assisted analysis to monitor whales, institutions, token movements, exchange deposits, and other market-moving activity.
X: @Bitquery_io | Networks: 40+ supported blockchains
Provides blockchain APIs, indexed datasets, real-time streams, DEX trades, token transfers, balances, address activity, and historical data for analysts and developers.
X: @GoldRushDev | Networks: 150+ supported blockchains
Covalent’s developer data platform for retrieving decoded transactions, balances, token holders, pricing, NFTs, historical activity, and multichain data through APIs.
X: @MoralisWeb3 | Networks: 30+ EVM networks and supported non-EVM ecosystems
A developer platform offering wallet, token, NFT, price, transaction, and market-data APIs for building analytics products, bots, wallets, and onchain applications.
X: @TenderlyApp | Networks: Supported EVM-compatible networks
A smart-contract development and monitoring platform for simulating transactions, debugging failures, tracing execution, testing contracts, monitoring production applications, and creating alerts.
X: @AlchemyPlatform | Networks: 100+ supported networks
Provides RPC access, APIs, webhooks, transaction simulation, account abstraction, debugging tools, developer infrastructure, and blockchain-data services.
X: @RevokeCash | Networks: 100+ supported networks
Finds token approvals and wallet permissions, then lets users revoke unnecessary or potentially dangerous access before it can be exploited.
X: @routescan_io | Networks: 160+ EVM networks
A multichain block-explorer platform built for connected EVM networks, subnets, appchains, and ecosystems that need unified transaction and contract visibility.
X: @blockscout | Networks: EVM-compatible networks using Blockscout
An open-source block explorer providing transaction search, contract verification, APIs, token data, address information, and network-level analytics.
X: @OKLink | Networks: All supported networks
A multichain explorer and blockchain-data platform offering transaction tracking, address analysis, token data, network statistics, APIs, and compliance-focused intelligence.
X: @CieloFinance | Networks: All supported networks
A wallet-tracking platform that sends real-time alerts for selected addresses and presents swaps, transfers, positions, and wallet activity in a readable feed.
X: @DefiSafety | Networks: Multichain protocol coverage
Evaluates DeFi protocols through process-quality reviews focused on documentation, testing, transparency, access controls, and operational practices.
X: @stablewatchHQ | Networks: Multichain stablecoin and yield markets
Provides analytics for stablecoins and yield-bearing assets, including APY, TVL, yield paid, collateral structures, risk information, and market comparisons.
X: @tradingview | Coverage: Global crypto, equity, commodity, forex, and derivatives markets
For traders using The List, TradingView provides the standard charting workspace for technical analysis, combining indicators, drawing tools, screeners, alerts, community scripts, historical data, and broker or exchange integrations.
X: @dexscreener | Networks: All indexed blockchains and DEXs
Provides real-time charts and trading data for DEX pairs, including price, volume, liquidity, market creation, transactions, trending markets, and alerts.
X: @DEXToolsApp | Networks: All indexed blockchains and DEXs
A DEX analytics and trading terminal with pair explorers, live charts, token scoring, pool data, holder information, alerts, and multichain token discovery.
X: @birdeye_so | Networks: Solana, Sui, Ethereum, Base, and supported EVM networks
A trading-data platform providing token prices, charts, liquidity, wallet activity, token security information, market discovery, APIs, and real-time data.
X: @GeckoTerminal | Networks: All indexed blockchains and DEXs
CoinGecko’s decentralized-market platform for tracking DEX pools, token prices, liquidity, volume, transactions, trending pairs, and newly created markets.
X: @coinglass_com | Coverage: Centralized and decentralized derivatives markets
A derivatives analytics platform covering open interest, liquidations, funding rates, options, basis, exchange balances, long-short positioning, and market heatmaps.
X: @coinalyzetool | Coverage: Supported spot and derivatives exchanges
Combines spot and derivatives charts with open interest, funding rates, liquidations, basis, volume, and aggregated exchange data for active futures traders.
X: @JupiterExchange | Network: Solana
Solana’s broad trading and DeFi interface, providing swap routing, perpetuals, lending, portfolio tracking, advanced order types, terminal functionality, and developer APIs.
X: @1inch | Networks: Ethereum, Solana, Base, BNB Chain, zkSync Era, Gnosis, Optimism, Polygon, Linea, Sonic, Unichain, Arbitrum, Avalanche, and Robinhood Chain
A DEX aggregation and execution platform that routes trades across liquidity sources while supporting intent-based swaps, cross-chain execution, APIs, and wallet infrastructure.
X: @matchaxyz | Networks: 19 supported chains, including Ethereum, Solana, and major EVM networks
A 0x-powered DEX aggregator that searches multiple liquidity sources, applies smart-order routing, supports gasless and cross-chain swaps, and shows execution costs before trading.
X: @CoWSwap | Networks: Ethereum, Gnosis, Arbitrum, Base, Polygon, Avalanche, BNB Chain, Linea, Plasma, and Ink
An intent-based trading interface that uses solver competition, batch auctions, peer-to-peer matching, and aggregated liquidity to improve execution and reduce MEV exposure.
X: @HyperliquidX | Networks: Hyperliquid L1 and HyperEVM
A fully onchain trading venue with order-book perpetual futures, spot markets, portfolio management, APIs, and permissionless market-deployment infrastructure.
X: @AxiomExchange | Network: Solana
An onchain trading terminal built for fast token discovery and execution, with charts, wallet tracking, multi-wallet controls, instant trades, alerts, and automated position management.
X: @tradewithPhoton | Network: Solana
A fast token-discovery and trading interface that allows users to monitor new markets, inspect token data, and execute trades from one terminal.
X: @gmgnai | Networks: Solana, BNB Chain, Base, and Ethereum
A meme-token terminal combining token discovery, holder analysis, wallet profit and loss, smart-money tracking, contract checks, copy trading, alerts, and automated execution.
X: @bullx_io | Networks: All networks supported by BullX Neo
A multichain DEX trading platform offering real-time charts, token discovery, pricing, limit orders, wallet controls, and Telegram-connected execution for fast-moving onchain markets.
X: @MetaSleuth | Networks: All supported networks
For the investigation and security side of The List, MetaSleuth provides a visual crypto-investigation platform for tracing stolen funds, following address relationships, mapping transaction paths, clustering wallets, and exporting investigation findings.
X: @chainalysis | Networks: All supported networks
An enterprise blockchain-investigation platform used to trace funds across wallets, entities, bridges, mixers, exchanges, and blockchain networks.
X: @trmlabs | Networks: All supported networks
Provides blockchain intelligence for investigations, sanctions screening, risk assessment, transaction monitoring, national-security analysis, and crypto compliance.
X: @elliptic | Networks: All supported networks
A cross-chain forensics platform that visualizes fund movements, identifies entities, measures illicit exposure, and converts transaction data into investigation evidence.
X: @MistTrack_io | Networks: 17+ supported blockchains
SlowMist’s crypto tracing and AML platform, offering wallet-risk checks, fund-flow visualization, entity labels, sanctions screening, stolen-fund tracking, and institutional monitoring.
X: @chainabuse | Networks: Chain-agnostic scam reporting
A public reporting and intelligence database for crypto scams. Users can search addresses, review reports, identify known campaigns, and submit evidence of fraudulent activity.
X: @GoPlusSecurity | Networks: All supported networks
Provides token, address, approval, signature, dApp, and NFT security APIs that can be integrated into wallets, trading terminals, explorers, and user-protection systems.
X: @realScamSniffer | Networks: All supported networks
Tracks phishing domains, wallet drainers, malicious signatures, scammer addresses, and compromised frontends through continuously updated blocklists, APIs, and a browser extension.
X: @blockaid_ | Networks: All supported networks
A real-time transaction-security platform that simulates transactions, validates expected outcomes, screens addresses, monitors onchain systems, and blocks malicious activity before execution.
X: @Sardine | Networks: Chain and payment-network agnostic
An enterprise financial-crime platform combining fraud prevention, AML, transaction monitoring, device intelligence, case management, and automated risk workflows.
X: @Solidus_Labs | Coverage: Global centralized and decentralized crypto markets
A crypto-native market-surveillance platform for detecting manipulation, insider trading, wash trading, abusive behavior, and compliance risks across venues.
X: @MerkleScience | Networks: All supported networks
A blockchain-intelligence and risk platform for transaction monitoring, wallet screening, investigations, attribution, compliance, and proactive threat detection.
X: @CrystalPlatform | Networks: All supported networks
An investigation and compliance platform for tracing crypto movements, identifying illicit exposure, monitoring transactions, screening counterparties, and producing investigation-ready evidence.
X: @Phalcon_xyz | Networks: Supported EVM networks and Solana
BlockSec’s transaction-analysis tool for visualizing fund flows, decoding calls, simulating transactions, debugging execution, and understanding complex DeFi interactions or exploits.
X: @Token_Sniffer | Networks: 15 supported blockchains
An automated smart-contract scanner that compares source code and bytecode against known scam patterns and produces token information, risk indicators, scam classifications, and standardized scores.
X: @FortaNetwork | Networks: All supported networks
A decentralized threat-detection network that monitors onchain activity for exploits, scams, anomalies, compliance risks, and other security events in real time.
The List is designed to give you a broader research workflow, but no individual platform provides a complete picture.
A protocol can appear healthy on DefiLlama while looking expensive on Token Terminal.
Its supply may appear distributed on Etherscan while Bubblemaps reveals that several major holders are connected.
Nansen may show sophisticated wallets accumulating while Tokenomist shows a major unlock approaching.
The List works best when you combine tools that answer different questions, giving you a more complete view of a protocol, market, wallet, or security risk.
Fundamental research: Use DefiLlama, Token Terminal, Artemis, Messari, and project-specific dashboards to understand the protocol and its economics.
Wallet and capital-flow analysis: Use Nansen, Arkham, Spot On Chain, DeBank, Bubblemaps, and block explorers to see what capital is actually doing.
Trading and positioning: Use TradingView, CoinGlass, Coinalyze, DEX Screener, and execution aggregators to evaluate price, liquidity, leverage, and positioning.
Security and investigation: Use MetaSleuth, Phalcon, Revoke, Scam Sniffer, GoPlus, and Token Sniffer to identify contract, wallet, and transaction risks.
The List is not designed around finding one perfect dashboard. The best research workflow combines different platforms based on the question you are trying to answer.
The List is ultimately built around knowing which tool to open next, depending on what you are researching and the information you need.
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