Crypto Resources

Table Of Contents
  1. Privacy & Anonymity
  2. Wallets
  3. Circular Economy
  4. Exchanges
  5. Research & Tools
  6. Angel Investing
  7. Decentralized Finance (DeFi)
  8. Automation
  9. Entertainment
  10. Education
  11. Appendix
  12. Nomad Services

Privacy & Anonymity

General Privacy

Atomic Swaps/Cross Chain Bridges

Atomic Swaps enable the exchange of one cryptocurrency for another without using a centralized intermediary. They allow two users to swap two assets from two different chains without having to trust each other. No KYC.

  • Wormhole – The Wormhole Token Bridge allows you to seamlessly transfer tokenized assets across Solana, Ethereum, BSC, Terra, and Polygon.
  • Unstoppable Swap – Swap XMR <-> BTC
  • Smoothly – Swap Stablecoins
  • Nerve – Nerve is a trustless on-ramp and stableswap on the Binance Smart Chain. Ethereum. USDT. BTC.
  • Sideshift – No KYC Crypto Exchange.
  • Godex.io – No KYC Crypto Exchange.
  • SwapZone – Swap Aggregator for ALL coins. (Recommended)

No KYC Fiat On ramps

Bitcoin was designed to be a peer-to-peer system. Let’s keep it that way.
Sourcing No-KYC Bitcoin can be a little bit difficult, but here’s some resources to get you going.

  • Your trusted crypto friend or family member or anyone in your trusted network.
  • HodlHodl – Decent.
  • Bisq – Kind of technical and not very user friendly
  • Peach – Mobile App 1000CHF/Day
  • Robosats – Like Bisq, but on the Tor network using Bitcoin Lightning.
  • Bitcoin ATM’s

Privacy Networks

Wallets

⚠️ WARNING Storing crypto should be done with extreme caution. It is highly recommended to use only hardware wallets to keep your high value crypto safe. Any wallet that you have to download to your computer creates a vector for malware and puts your funds at risk. Some crypto coins may not have wallets and should be kept on exchange. Refer to Privacy & Anonymity Section for peace of mind.

Hardware Wallets

You should definitely own a hardware wallet.

  • Ledger – Most widely used hardware wallet. Supports most coins. Best for multi coin support.
  • Trezor – Open Source. Best for privacy and security. 40% off Black Friday Sale Here
  • Arculus – Untested.
  • DIY – TODO

Software Wallets

Low to High Risk (Can be low risk when used with hardware wallets)

Browser extension wallets should be considered first. Downloading a wallet to your desktop as an executable should be done with extreme caution and avoided if possible.

Circular Economy

When your ready you wont have to sell your bitcoin back to fiat.
One day you won’t need to sell your cryptocurrency back to fiat.

Spend Crypto

  • Cryptwerk – Cryptwerk is online directory with companies, websites, shops, services where you can pay with Bitcoin and other popular cryptocurrencies. Bitcoin, Litecoin, Ethereum, Dash, Monero, Bitcoin Cash, Zcash, Dogecoin, Ripple and other altcoins accepted here. Cryptwerk is useful for people who wants to spend cryptocurrency directly, without exchanges or banking cards. Registration is free.
  • SpendaBit – Spend BTC across hundreds of stores that accept Bitcoin.
  • BitcoinWide –  a global, open and free platform to search businesses, organizations or individuals who accept Bitcoin and other Cryptocurrency.
  • Online Directories
  • CoinMap – All the cryptocurrency merchants and ATMs of the world in one map.

Earn Crypto

  • For Businesses POS – TODO
  • For Freelancers – Get a wallet address and have employers send funds there!
  • Mining
  • Yield Farming – See Yield Farming

Exchanges

Exchanges come in all shapes and sizes. There is no one size fits all and since crypto is still nascient technology you will likely need to get comfortable working with multiple exchanges.

Peer To Peer Exchanges

These exchange are generally slower and less liquid, but are typically the best place to get your hands on some noKYC crypto.

Centralized Exchanges

Pros: Easy to use. Liquidity. Lots of coins.
Cons: Not your keys, not your coins. KYC.

  • ByBit
  • KuCoin – Tier 1 exchange. No KYC needed. 1 BTC Max daily withdrawal.
  • Phemex
  • Binance – Tier 1 exchange. Great Exchange until the SEC cracked down on them. KYC is now needed. Avoid.
    • Finandy – Crypto Еxchange and free trading terminal for Binance
  • Gemini – US based. KYC. FDIC insured. Fiat Onramp. Beginner Friendly. High fees on mobile app, better trade on desktop.

Decentralized Spot Exchanges

DeFi short for Decentralized Finance refers to financial services that are built on top of distributed networks with no central intermediaries. DeFi is the core of crypto. Every trader should strive to understand how to use these networks.

Decentralized Perpetual Exchanges

  • DYDX – Not really decentralized as KYC is needed.
  • MCDEX
  • Perpetual Protocol
  • Fodl Finance – Fodl enables traders to utilize leverage for their trades without paying a funding rate. This leverage is derived from existing DeFi building blocks, such as Compound and Aave. (Recommended)
  • Tracer Finance – Leveraged exposure. No margins. No liquidations. A new derivative primitive. (Recommended)
  • Gains.trade – Automated synthetic decentralized exchange on polkadot network. (Recommended)

Research & Tools

General Analysis

Great for Coin Prospecting and more.

On-Chain Metrics

Follow the ledger.

Tracing and Monitoring

  • Breadcrumbs – Breadcrumbs is an open blockchain analytics platform. It offers a set of tools that empowers you to trace and monitor crypto transactions.

Sentiment Analysis

Technical Analysis & Screeners

Security Smart Contract Audits

Look here to see if your blockchain project has been audited. If it has not, then it’s probably a scam. Even if it is audited it could still be a scam :shrug:

  • Halborn Security – Search for your project and see if it has been audited.
  • RD Auditors – We audit Smart, NFT, Staking and Farming contracts. We focus on Solidity and RUST coding language.
  • Solidified – the largest community of smart contract auditors and blockchain security experts. Solidified is a reputable community-driven trust source for smart contracts and their technical quality.
  • Peckshield – With dozens of years experience and noted achievements in the area of vulnerability analysis, operating systems, and malware defense, PeckShield offers independent service brands such as DAppTotal and CoinHolmes, and provides security total solutions to all blockchain users.
  • Solidity Finance – Smart Contract Auditing Services
  • Solidproof – Verify Founders with KYC. We are specialized in auditing smart contracts and can find vulnerabilities in your blockchain project using manual and automated tests. With our informative report you give your community a good sense of security
  • CertiK – Security Audits and Penetration Testing. Easy Search.
  • Quantstamp – Quantstamp’s mission is to secure the decentralized internet, and has protected over $100B in digital asset risk from hackers. More than 200 startups, foundations and enterprises work with Quantstamp to keep their innovative products safe.
  • OpenZeppelin – OpenZeppelin provides security products to build, automate, and operate decentralized applications. We also protect leading organizations by performing security audits on their systems and products.

News

News is pretty much just noise. Everywhere. I recommend turning off the news and trading with your gut, but ill leave these links here for completeness.

Angel Investing

Crypto makes it easy for normal people to invest in new technology. No longer do you need to have over $1Million in Assets and be an accredited investor. This is great, but it also comes with higher risk than normal angel investing.

It’s very easy for crypto companies to scam new investors with false promises and high hopes. So it is very important that you proceed into this realm with extreme caution and a pretty sure guarantee of losing money at one point or another in a scam.

Launchpads

Get in early on ICOS, IEOs, IDOs, ISOs these are different abbreviations used throughout the industry to invest early in a token before it hits exchanges. Typically this is the best way to buy a token at the lowest prices. But you need to be careful and do your due diligence. It’s very common now for token’s to many rounds of pre-ico seed sales to raise revenue through accredited investors before they release their crypto to the public. You need to understand the vesting schedules, coin tokenomics and where you fall into the public sale.

Smart Money

Follow the smart money and view the portfolios of early investors. You can create a free account on Crunchbase and follow these hedge funds or you can follow the coins after they are listed on Coinmarketcap. Either way, knowing that a coin has investor backing can help you make better investments without doing all the hard work.

Though, it should be noted that these hedge funds may also dump on you. So don’t buy a coin just because you notice a lot of big players are backing it. Do your research and understand if you are exit liquidity in the middle of the hype cycle or you just found a gem no ones talking about yet. Early investors love to make money and they’re good at it so they will bail on project as soon as they have made profits, which is usually right around the next round of investments are made 😉

Decentralized Finance (DeFi)

DeFi is an abbreviation of the phrase decentralized finance which generally refers to the digital assets and financial smart contracts, protocols, and decentralized applications (DApps). In simpler terms, it’s financial software built on the blockchain that can be pieced together like Money Legos Defi is typically used for loans, earning interest (yield farming), and borrowing against collateral.

General

  • Defi Lama – A very nice defi aggregator. (Recommended)
  • zero to defi guide – A beginner’s guide to earning passive income via Compound Finance
  • DeFi Pulse – DeFi Pulse is a site where you can find the latest analytics and rankings of DeFi protocols. DeFi Lending monitors the underlying smart contracts of popular lending protocols on the Ethereum blockchain to provide data about existing loans, debts, and interest rates in DeFi.
  • DeFi List By CoinGecko – Top 100 DeFi Coins by Market Capitalization

Yield Farming

Tools

  • Decentralized Fund Management
    • https://symmetry.fi/ – Create your basket of tokens, diversify your crypto portfolio, manage risk & earn passively.
    • https://solrise.finance/ – A decentralized fund management and investment protocol on Solana – the fastest blockchain to date.

Automation

General Automation

We all live busy lives and have only about 4000 weeks before we are dead, so its best if we set up solutions that enable us to be away from the computer as much as possible and out in the real world making the most of our finite experience. Cryptocurrency is about freedom and financial sovereignty. Let’s be good stewards of our time.

  • Cryptocurrency Alerting – Notifications and Alerts
  • IFTTT – Get started with IFTTT, the easiest way to do more with your favorite apps and devices for free. Make your home more relaxing. Make your work more productive. Keep your data private and secure. We believe every thing works better together.
  • Zapier – Zapier is an online platform that helps you automate workflows by connecting your apps and services you use. This allows you to automate tasks without having to build this integration yourself.
  • TradingView“>Tradingview – TV offer alerts for just about anything. You can even use their built in scripting language to build your own custom alerts! Check out my courses to learn how to do this.

Bot Trading

If you have a good strategy and a bit of technical knowledge use it!

Social Trading & Portfolio Management

  • Shrimpy – Build an index or follow someone else index.
  • TokenSets – Manage crypto portfolios
  • Solrise – A decentralized fund management and investment protocol on Solana
  • Traderwagon – Copy Trader powered by Binance

Entertainment

NFT

Non-Fungible Token (NFT) refers to digital assets with unique characteristics. Unlike bitcoin, ethereum, or other tokens that are fungible and can be traded with one another, each NFT assets are distinct from each other. Real world example for NFTs include art, trading cards, game items, land titles, and more.

Games / Metaverse / VR / AR

Education

Education

PineScriptStrategy.com doesn’t know it all so don’t be afraid to check out these other resources for more knowledge.

Technology

Appendix

Nomad Services