Guides
Practical, step-by-step walkthroughs. We keep these deliberately self-custody-first: your keys, your coins, and no shortcuts that put your funds on someone else's balance sheet.
- 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.
- 06
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.
- 07
How to Spot a Crypto Scam
The standard scams (phishing, drainers, pig butchering, rug pulls, fake support) and the small set of rules that defeats nearly all of them.
- 08
How to Stake ETH
The four ways to stake Ethereum (solo, pooled, liquid, exchange) matched to holding size and risk appetite, with the unstaking and tax catches spelled out.
- 09
How to Store Your Seed Phrase
Your 12 or 24 words are the wallet. Where to keep them, where never to keep them, and the setups that survive fires, floods, and your own future carelessness.
- 10
How to Use RSI (Relative Strength Index)
RSI compresses momentum into a 0-100 scale. What it measures, the overbought/oversold myth that costs traders money, and the readings that actually mean something.