Curated Crypto
Resources
A hand-picked collection of the best tools, analytics, and educational resources for Ethereum and DeFi.
CryptoFees.info
Shows top fee-earning protocols and how much in fees people are paying to use them. Also, at the top there is a list of affiliated sites with great analytics, like how much money each protocol is printing each day to secure itself, etc.
Ultrasound.Money
Best site for real-time Ethereum tokenomics
L2Beat
Shows risk profiles for Layer 2s and Bridges
MEV Watch
Shows how many validators are censoring
Anders Brownworth
Learning how blockchains and hashing work
Bankless Website
Articles, guides, etc. Some content is paywalled
MEV-Boost
Shows current stats on the decentralization of relayers and builders in delivering blocks to Ethereum validators.
Hildobby's Dune Dashboards
Dope ass Dune analytics creator - just a bunch of data about Ethereum
TornadoWarning.info
Shows tornado cash transactions and which relayer delivered them
DeFi Llama
Gargantuan trove of multi chain information on yields, airdrop opportunities, liquidations, stablecoins, hacks, and everything in between
Lucky Staker
Tells what % chance a validator has of proposing a block over a given time
ClientDiversity.org
Shows the current health of Ethereum client diversity
Node Watch
Shows current stats on the decentralization of Ethereum nodes
Ether Nodes
Info on node decentralization, clients, etc.
Open Orgs
Tracks DAO treasuries
Coin Gecko
Token prices and tokenomics info
CoinMarketCap
Token prices and tokenomics info
The Daily Gwei (newsletter)
The Daily Gwei newsletter - updates in the Ethereum ecosystem
Ethereum.org
The closest thing to an official site for Ethereum. Great educational resources. Translated in over 50 languages!
Phi Land
Show how degen you are and also learn about stuff you haven't done yet
Solidity, Blockchain, and Smart Contract Course
Beginner to Expert Python and Solidity Tutorial (from FreeCodeCamp.org)
Crypto Zombies
An OG tutorial for learning solidity
Finematics
Is there something too technical to wrap your head around? This is your school.
FuruCombo Tutorial by Finematics
Do a flash loan without having to write code
ChainList
Find live RPCs for different EVM blockchains
Earni.Fi
Find out if there's an airdrop waiting for you
ZapperFi
Dashboard for keeping track of all of your assets and activities, as well as snooping on others
Skiff
Like a Web3 version of email and Google Drive
Fire
A wallet extension to help you understand what you're signing before you get rekt
RPL Dashboard
Dune dashboard by arixon.eth with some interesting insight on support levels for the RPL token
Wrappr - Your crypto law suite
Information on incorporating your DAO
The LeXPunk DAO Defense
Legal discussion about DAOs and legal entities
Colony YouTube Channel
Great content if you're thinking of forming a DAO
Defi Llama Airdrop List
Projects that don't have a token yet, but may in the future
Ethereum, To Be, or Not To Be (Aligned)?
Discussion on what it means to be Ethereum aligned
dMail
Among other things, use your Eth account as an email address
Monitor Eth
A fancy-ass website showing stats on current eth validators and nodes
Ethereum Censorship Dashboard
Dashboard that shows how many validators, builders, and relayors are currently censoring
Ethereum Cat Herders
The site that helps core developers coordinate and also enables non-core folks to keep up with EIPs and core research
Earndrop
like earni.fi - let's you know when you have airdrops available. Affiliated with @OlimpioCrypto
Nfty Chat
Like a Web3 Discord
Vitalik's blog
Vitalik's persona website where he posts his articles
Pseudotheos' blog
Pseudotheos blog about Ethereum and specifically zk stuff. Pretty technical
NFT Loss Harvestooor
A site that will allow you to sell NFTs for next to nothing if you'd like to write them off on your taxes. And then if you regret it later, you can buy them back here for the same price: https://sylphdapps.com/nft-repurchasooor/
Revoke
A tool that shows you the contracts you've given permission to spend your tokens and allows you to revoke those permissions
Zerion
Track your entire portfolio across different blockchains and wallets, or use their wallet as a centralized (decentralized) place to access defi
Co-op law
Good information on co-ops in the United States. Not crypto-specific, but may be interesting to US DAO founders searching for how to structure.
Decentralist
All kinds of resources regarding forming a DAO, from legal discussion to DAO tooling
dabdab Mirror articles
Great information on liquid staking derivatives (LSTs)
Patrick McCorry Substack Articles
Treasure trove of good shit written about how Ethereum works
ELI5 DAO
List of tools to help DAOs bootstrap and operate
Token Unlocks
Shows unlock schedules for different tokens
Guide to setting up an Ethereum validator
What the title says
Crypto Conference Tracker
Big spreadsheet of Ethereum conferences
Ether Alpha
List of websites from the chad Hanniabu
DAO Entity Structures & the UNA
the motherload on high-level DAO entity formation in the US - by Nouns DAO
Ether GPT
ChatGPT trained on Ethereum knowledge, by @arixon. Must have ChatGPT4 to access it
Wallet hygiene
A tweet thread by Borintn Security DAO about good security practices to make sure you don't get rekt. Thread links to articles
Delegate Cash
A tool that allows you to use one wallet in place of another, keeping your cold storage safe
AllCoreDevs Updates
Updates by Tim Beiko about the Ethereum All Core Devs calls. This is what's happening with the Ethereum roadmap from the horse's mouth.
Eth Sunshine
Dashboard by Hanniabu showing the current state of Ethereum's decentralization through different metrics
Developer Report
They analyze open-source repos to figure out how many crypto developers exist among different ecosystems
Calldata.pics
Provides live data of call data and blob usage, complete will vizualizations of rollup data, block sizes, blib inclusion, and more
Vaults.fyi
Find real time analytics on RWAs, LSTs, and USD lending locked in vaults. Includes a handy tool that shows current APY of different LSTs. Built by @nero_eth
GasFees.io
A simple, useful dashboard showing how much different kinds of transactions cost on different chains. Built by @0xKofi
What the Blobs?!
The control room for blob watchers. So much good stuff here. By @0xRob.
Tokenomics Explained
Writings and analysis by Logris the Bard (a chad)
BlobScan
The block explorer for blobs.
Orderflow.art
BADASS sankey diagram showing the orderflow of all Ethereum transactions. Build by Flashbots.
Ethereum Sequencing & Preconfirmations Resources
Updated articles about the future of Based Rollups, Sequencing, Preconfirmations, and Fragmentation on Ethereum
CoinGlass
A treasure trove of analytics for traders. The liquidation tab is interesting.
EIC Eth Investment Club
A long, in depth look at Ethereum from an investing point of view. Written for normie investors but goes very deep.
Ethernow
A real time feed on what's happening in the current Ethereum block. Different analytics are clickable and go down rabbit holes. You could get lost here for a long time.
Awesome Ethereum Staking Resources
The mother load of staking resources of all kinds
Push Protocol
A crypto hub that will give you notifications whenever anything happens in protocols you are involved with
Ethereum Model
A spreadsheet by Jon Charbonneau to forecast Eth price, issuance, txn fees, etc based on whatever assumptions you want to input
Rhino Review
Newsletter by ethpiku going over eth staking news. Very comprehensive
The Pass
A dashboard for onchain metrics of different DAOs, a list of DAOs, a podcast, pretty comprehensive
Transaction Street
A freaking amazing way to visualize transactions filling the blocks of Ethereum, Bitcoin, and L2s
Stablecoin Series: Overview on Ethereum
A dune dashboard by @21co showing the current state and evolution of stablecoins
The Ethereum Staking Directory
Compares and contrasts all of the different services with which to stake Eth
Relay Scan
A dashboard showing the dominance of current block builders and relayers over certain time periods
Otterscan
An open source block explorer that you can run yourself along with your own archive node (trustless)
Blowfish
An extension to help make sure you don't get rekt by malicious transactions
Metacrisis DAO
A group trying to make sure crypto helps save humankind from itself
Socket Scan
A block explorer focused on bridging. See all your past and pending bridging transactions
Eth Seer
A really cool way to visualize epochs, who proposed each block, attestation health, etc.
Market Cap Of
Lets you check out what the price of one token would be at the market value of another token. Addictive.
Rocket Rescue Node
Whip up a fall-back node for your validator
Eth Converter
Quickly convert Eth to wei and gwei to make interacting with smart contracts easier
Eth Wizard
A wizard for Ubuntu and Windows to make solo staking easier
Beacon Chain Website
Real time Beacon Chain data, information, and a staking calculator among other features
Rated Network
real time data on beacon chain validators
Eth Staker Knowledge Base
All the info you could want for Eth staking
On-Chain Art
A curated list of NFTs that are fully on chain, focusing on art
Ethereum 2.0 Validator Queue
Very simple and useful. Just what the title says.
Wen Merge
Details on validator queue and upcoming forks. Also will notify you when you're about to propose a block.
Nansen2
All kinds of real time info on Eth staking
Eth.store
Dashboard on slots, slashings, validators, the mempool, etc
LIDO Post Merge Protocol APR
Up-to-date info on Lido staking
Ratio Gang
How we're doing on the flippening
Blobspace 101
Banger explainer by Domothy on EIP 4844 i.e. protodanksharding
Bitcoin Treasuries
Shows how much BTC different companies own
Rocket Pool Explorer (Rocketscan)
Good real time info about Rocket Pool
Builda
Discover projects that are on the horizon (or post your own)
Validator Queue
Simple and useful information about the Ethereum validator entry/exit queue
growthepie
Badass site with L2 usage analytics
zkFlow
Simple but effective tool letting you know how much you've been airdrop farming on zkSync
Data Always
Just a varied array of analytics and articles explaining it all. Pretty badass.
Ethereum Execution Client Diversity
What the title says. Uses a different method to measure these stats than clientdiversity.org
The Value Prop
A huge list of projects building on crypto networks, broken down by category
MEV
A pretty exhaustive list of great sites about MEV
There Is No Second Best
Shows how rich Michael Saylor would be if he were an Eth maxi instead of a laser eyes
The Beacon Chain Ethereum 2.0 explainer you need to read first
An bomb-ass explainer of how the beacon chain works
The Inactivity Leak by Patrick McCorry
An bomb-ass explainer on the inactivity leak
Bluechip
A website that thoroughly assesses the riskiness of different stablecoins
On-Chain Checker
@tokenfox evaluates whether onchain art NFTs are truly onchain
Ethereum Validator Queue Status
A simple dashboard by mike.sylphdapps.eth showing the validator entry and exit queue
MEV Burn by @arixon
Tracks Eth supply in a hypothetical world where we have MEV burn implemented
/chat
Allows you to see on-chain messages between addresses
Ethereum Reorg Dashboard
Analytics on reorgs and missed blocks, broken down with different metrics
DappRadar
Dashboard with analytics on different dapps, member curated
Linea Tracker
Show your activity so far on Linea to help gauge potential airdrop eligibility. Can toggle to zkSync as well.
Rollup Economics
A dashboard by Kofi comparing revenues/costs/ profitability of the different rollups. Also, check out his whole list of Dune dashboards. It's dope.
Liquity Tweet comparing oracles
A tweet put out on Aug 18, 2023 by Liquity taking a snapshot of major oracles and their risks and strengths
Nice Node
A user-friendly GUI to make it easier to set up and run a full node on Ubuntu
Atlas
A smart contract IDE that has an ai helper that will write your contracts for you
Fully Onchain
Another website with a curated list of onchain NFTs, as well as a list of tools and articles
Ethereum Mempool Dashboard
Dashboard of the mempool, demystifying the mystery
10kDrop Dashboard
Track your potential airdrop hunting activity on many of the big L2s. Has a paywall, but offers some info for free
TrackDrop
Track your potential airdrop hunting activity on most of the big L2s
Money Movers
Compare how much value Ethereum and Bitcoin has been settling. Also see the links at the top of the screen for other dope dashboards.
L2Fees.info
See how much current L2 gas fees are for swapping tokens and how much L2s are paying Ethereum L1. Also see the links at the top of the screen for other dope dashboards
Simple Stakers
See current yields different LSTs are earning. Also see the links at the top of the screen for other dope dashboards.
Ulisse Ethereum network topology explorer
Shows on a world map where active Ethereum nodes are
Chainspect
Dashboard showing current and max TPS metrics of different chains
Polynya blog
Articles written by an influential, big brained, outside-the-box thinker
Ethereum Whitepaper
Vitalik's original whitepaper
A Most Peaceful Revolution
Nic Carter's influential essay on why Bitcoin is important
Bitcoin Whitepaper
The paper that started it all
Meditations on Moloch
Scott Alexander's influential piece on Moloch, the human coordination traps that have plagued humanity throughout time and the beast that crypto seeks to help slay
Eth Home Staking Guide Designed For the Layman by @Stakesaurus
A guide to simplify home staking, including becoming your own node operator for protocols that require less than 32 Eth (like Rocketpool and Stader)
RWA.xyz
A list of all the projects working on bringing real world assets onchain
Ether Clients
The mother of all dashboards for execution client diversity. Lets you search for specific validators
Parsec
A fancy block explorer/dashboard that spans multiple chains
Ethernow
A dope dashboard by Blocknative showing the current mempool
DefiCalendar
A large list of potential airdrops and ideas for how to qualify
Ethernets
A blockchain crawler showing execution layer analytics on full nodes for Ethereum mainnet and testnets
Solana Beach
A dashboard on Solana transactions, validators, nodes, etc.
Just DAO It
A podcast by Midao about dao tooling, legal issues, and other nitty gritty DAO things
MIDAO
A DAO that helps DAOs incorporate in the Marshall Islands. Also, a good resource for learning about DAO legal entities.
Primo Data
A list of projects working on crypto data and analysis. Also has a section for AI projects.
CryptoMetheus
Ranking the leading cryptocurrencies by GitHub development momentum.
jbudz.xyz
A great list kinda like this one, but with different resources
Daily Gwei Links
Holy shit, it’s an actual list of all the links from The Daily Gwei YouTube comments!
EigenLayer Stats
A dashboard with EigenLayer metrics
UseWeb3
Really cool hub for Ethereum education, taking people from a newb all the way to a dev and then helps them find a job
RegenLearnings.xyz
A collaborative effort to post learnings on public goods funding ideas
Crypto Narratives
A clever dashboard by CryptoKoryo that devises ways to track the value of crypto narratives over time.
Timing.pics
A dashboard giving insight into the timing games different node operators are playing with their validators
Verkle Trees For Statelessness
Just tons of info on verkle trees and the stateless roadmap of Ethereum
Build Space
A program that helps you turn your crypto idea into reality, maybe get funding for it, and get to meet a bunch of other builders irl. They even have an irl campus.
DAO Club
A free program to help people learn how to DAO. Sort of a club/school/DAO hybrid, started under the Colony umbrella but very DAO-tooling agnostic. Coco (co-creator of this site) has gone through it and cannot recommend it highly enough.
LearnWeb3
A one-stop-shop for learning about crypto, whether you are a beginner or quite advanced. It also helps you get connected in the ecosystem.
Alchemy University
Free online crypto courses created by Alchemy
MetaCrafters
Learn coding, earn rewards, and get help getting hired
Impersonator.xyz
Connect to any dapp using anyones address! Freaking neat tool. Cannot initiate txns, obv.
Copilot
A tool to help you check potential airdrop metrics for your wallets on different L2s
Pixelhack's Farcaster Dashboard
A Dune dashboard from @pixelhack showing growth metrics for Farcaster
Ethereum Roadmap
Shows Vitalik’s latest update on the eth roadmap
Eth Roadmap
An incredibly detailed website showing past forks and EIPs as well as future forks and potential EIPs, complete with predictions and deep rabbit holes about each one. You could get lost here.
MEV Explore V1
A very detailed dashboard showing MEV data
Ethereum Ecosystem
Massive aggregator of dapps, browseable and broken down into categories and which blockchains they are on. Kinda what this website does, but for apps.
Flipside
Kinda like Dune. Different people create different dashboards for interesting onchain data.
CryptoArt
A website dedicated to showcasing the most expensive NFTs and the most successful NFT artists. Uses Dune in the background and has a link to the dashboard.
The Daily Gwei
The podcast that spawned this website. Sassal goes deep into the Ethereum weeds, and the pod is really just for people who already live in said weeds. Not normie friendly, but you also don’t need to be a dev to follow along. He references so many dashboards, we needed a website to keep up with them.
Bankless
Normie-friendly, highly Eth aligned, great interviews. They get the big guests, teams announce airdrops here, it’s where the stuff happens…A great podcast for anyone to learn, no matter their knowledge level.
Empire
Sorta like Bankless, but less normie-friendly and a little more finance focused, but also focused on the tech.
The Bell Curve
Very intellectual. Round-table style, but otherwise you can think of this as the financed-focused version of The Daily Gwei. Quite in the weeds, not mornie-friendly.
Web3 Builders
A deep in-the-weeds podcast hosted by a dev about mostly Ethereum stuff. Big brained. Sometimes goes a while without recording an episode, but usually great content.
Wholesome Crypto
A podcast that gets a little more personal in the lives of prominent crypto people. You can get some alpha here, but it’s also cool just to learn about the people behind the avatars.
Ethfinance Doots Happy Hour
A weekly podcast put on by the EVMavericks and the Ethfinance subreddit. JT reads the top reddit posts of the week, and the Mavericks comment. Usually there’s a special guest each week who talks about their project and gets grilled with questions. Heavy hitters, major weeds but also can be normie-friendly, and great perspectives.
The Defiant
Similar to Bankless, the Defiant covers crypto news, hosts interviews, and has some nice explainers about different crypto topics.
Unchained
A podcast created by a journalist who got sucked down the crypto rabbit hole. Less Ethereum focused and more generally crypto focused.
Colony
An amalgamation of videos put out by Colony core members. Some are about how to start a DAO, some are about how to code in Solidity. It always seems to be very interesting content, and usually DAO-focused.
Just DAO It
A podcast about DAO formation, put on by Midao, which is a project that helps DAOs navigate meatspace laws. Deep in the weeds on DAOs.
Why Are We Here?
A video of Erik Voorhees’ speech at Permissionless (2023) explaining why we are building crypto from a very first principles and very cypherpunk perspective. Some views may seem extreme, but it’s a good way to get grounded in the OG philosophy and reexamine some of your beliefs. (We know, it’s not something to read, but this seemed like the best category for it.)
A Cypherpunk's Manifesto
A short manifesto of cypherpunk ideals, cypherpunks being the group that birthed crypto. This is foundational.
Harvest.art
A site where you can sell any NFT for 1 gwei in order to tax harvest. You can also buy any NFT that others have dumped here.
Solana Airdrop Checker
Check your Solana airdrops
Solana Status
Clean dashboard that shows uptime and issues for the Solana ecosystem
EigenLayer Ecosystem Metrics | The Ultimate Dashboard
A dashboard with EigenLayer metrics, including airdrop potential
Gas High Don’t Cry
A dashboard showing how much different types of transactions cost on L1 vs L2s. As of now there’s only L1 and Arbitrum One, but there are plans to expand to the other L2s.
Jason Schwartz
Jason Schwartz (aka CryptoTaxGuy)’s website linking to all of his articles on crypto taxation. This dude is on the forefront of this area.
Token Terminal
Supposed to be a great site for onchain data, but it’s paywalled so fuck if we know
Kiwi Stand
A user-curated news feed of crypto
Infinite Market Cap
Compare the market cap of different things
Garden of Things
Map of ETH Supply by ETH Wave, interactive sankey diagram showing ETH on: L2, Staked, Lost and more.
Mycaster
Easily share your farcaster profile with a frontend agnostic link
GasHawk
A tool that submits your transaction for you when gas is low.
StakingRewards
An interactive dashboard showing current staking rewards for different chains, tokens, and LST providers.
Cryptocurrency Jobs
Get a job in crypto! Yes, you.
Wenser
Another website to check your potential airdrop standing on different protocols
$DUDE: A dude-to-dude electronic cash system
Whitepaper, Dexscreener link, and initial distribution data for $DUDE
Privacy Pools
An OFAC-compliant mixer to secretly move funds to a new wallet.
Bitcoin Risq List
Shows the Bitcoin addresses vulnerable to a quantum attack
Stables.rip
Website showing how much USDC and USDT has been frozen and which wallets are blacklisted