A reference, not a tipsheet
Understand crypto, before you touch it.
PickACrypto is a crypto knowledge base: plain-English explainers, practical how-to guides, and honest analysis. It is built for people who want to understand what they are looking at, not another place to watch a ticker tick.
Learn the fundamentals
The concepts behind everything else on this site, explained the way we would explain them to a mate. Start anywhere; every page stands on its own.
- 01
Crypto Volatility, Explained
Why crypto prices move so violently, how volatility is actually measured, and how to use it: position sizing, drawdowns, and why our forecasts are ranges, not points.
- 02
How Crypto Price Predictions Actually Work
Every crypto site publishes predictions; almost none show their work or their track record. The methods behind price forecasts, what they're worth, and how to read ours.
- 03
What Is a Blockchain?
A blockchain is a shared ledger nobody can quietly edit. Here's how it actually works, why that matters, and where the marketing gets ahead of reality.
- 04
What Is a Crypto Airdrop?
Airdrops hand out free tokens to bootstrap communities, and fund a whole scam economy. How real ones work, how farming became an industry, and the fakes to never touch.
- 05
What Is a Crypto Wallet?
A crypto wallet holds your keys, not your coins. Hot vs cold, hardware vs software, and how to pick the right setup for the amount you're protecting.
- 06
What Is a DEX (Decentralized Exchange)?
A DEX lets you trade crypto straight from your own wallet, no account required. How automated market makers work, what slippage really is, and when a DEX beats an exchange.
Practical guides
Step-by-step walkthroughs for the things you actually have to do, from buying your first coin on a DEX to reading a candlestick chart.
- 01
How to Bridge to a Layer 2
Moving funds from Ethereum to an L2 like Arbitrum or Base: choosing a route, the withdrawal-delay catch, and the safety rules for crypto's most-hacked category.
- 02
How to Buy Crypto on a DEX
Your first decentralized exchange trade, start to finish: funding a wallet, verifying the real token, reading approvals, and setting slippage without getting skinned.
- 03
How to Read a Candlestick Chart
Candles pack open, high, low, and close into one bar. How to read them, which patterns carry real information, and how to not fool yourself with the rest.
- 04
How to Research a Crypto Project (DYOR, Properly)
'Do your own research' is advice usually given without the method. Here's ours: a repeatable process from token mechanics to team, in about an hour per project.
- 05
How to Set Up a Hardware Wallet
Moving serious holdings to cold storage: buying the device safely, initialising it, the first send, and the habits that make hardware security actually work.
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How to Set Up a Software Wallet
From download to first transaction with a self-custody software wallet, the safe way, including the mistakes that cost people real money on day one.
How this site works
A library, not a feed
Plain-English explainers, step-by-step guides, and coin profiles, written to a published editorial standard. Whether you are setting up your first wallet or reading your tenth chart, the answer should be here.
Data is the engine, not the product
We sync prices, market caps, volumes, and indicators into our own database around the clock. That record is what lets us write accurate pages at scale. Every figure you read comes from it, none of it typed by hand or guessed.
Predictions with receipts
Where we publish price predictions, we hold ourselves to them: each one is recorded when it is made and scored in public against what the market actually did. Most sites predict and move on; we keep score.
Markets, at a glance
The live data that backs our coin pages and predictions. One tool among many here, not the main event.
| # | Asset | Price | 24h | 7d | Market cap |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bitcoin BTC | $65,141.00 | +1.28% | +5.13% | $1.31T |
| 2 | Ethereum ETH | $1,894.76 | +2.08% | +7.49% | $228.7B |
| 3 | Tether USDT | $0.9992 | -0.01% | +0.02% | $184.07B |
| 4 | BNB BNB | $571.73 | +0.89% | +1.61% | $76.14B |
| 5 | USDC USDC | $0.9998 | -0.01% | 0% | $73.21B |
| 6 | XRP XRP | $1.11 | +1.99% | +4.93% | $69.54B |
| 7 | Solana SOL | $77.57 | +2.53% | +3.68% | $45.2B |
| 8 | TRON TRX | $0.3264 | -0.15% | +0.3% | $30.97B |
Site status: guides, coin pages, reviews, and prediction coverage are rolling out in reviewed batches, backed by a live data engine that is accumulating market history. How it all works is documented on the methodology page.