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Guides and notes on self-custody, read-only tracking, perps and making sense of a multi-chain portfolio. Written by the people building the tracker, with the product limits stated rather than glossed.
Explainers
What is a seed phrase, and why no app should ask for it
Twelve or twenty-four words that are your entire wallet: how seed phrases work, how they get stolen, and the one rule that stops most crypto theft.
Sep 1, 2026 · 2 min read
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Explainers
What is an xpub? Watch-only Bitcoin, explained
Sep 1, 2026 · 2 min
Explainers
What is read-only access?
Sep 1, 2026 · 2 min
Taxes
The self-custodian’s tax season checklist
Sep 1, 2026 · 2 min
Taxes
Five exchanges, three wallets, one tax return
Sep 1, 2026 · 2 min
Taxes
How to export your crypto trades for tax season
Sep 1, 2026 · 2 min
Guides
How to track TON wallets (and why it is different)
Sep 1, 2026 · 2 min
Guides
How to track TON wallets (and why it is different)
TON wallets have two address spellings, jettons instead of ERC-20s, and a habit of starting life inside Telegram. Tracking them is still one paste.
Sep 1, 2026 · 2 min
How to track Bybit without granting withdrawal rights
A Bybit read-only API key lets a tracker see your unified account, derivatives included, while trading and withdrawals stay impossible. Five-minute setup.
Sep 1, 2026 · 2 min
How to track an Ethereum wallet (and everything it touches)
One Ethereum address is also an Arbitrum, Base and Polygon address. How to watch a wallet across the whole EVM family from a single paste.
Sep 1, 2026 · 3 min
Crypto cost basis, explained
Cost basis decides how much of every sale is profit. FIFO, HIFO and the other lot methods, and why transfers between your own wallets break the math.
Sep 1, 2026 · 3 min
Self-custody
Can a read-only API key be used against you? An honest threat model
A read-only key cannot move funds. The real risks are quieter: privacy, profiling, forgotten keys. The full threat model, including what vendors skip.
Aug 26, 2026 · 3 min
How to create a read-only Binance API key, step by step
Five minutes in Binance settings: create an API key, leave every permission off except reading, and connect a tracker with zero power over your funds.
Aug 24, 2026 · 3 min
Self-custody without flying blind
Holding your own keys usually costs you the clean dashboard exchanges give captive users. It should not. How self-custodians get the full picture back.
Aug 22, 2026 · 2 min
Token approvals: the permission you forgot you gave
Every DeFi swap starts with an approval, and approvals never expire. The allowances you granted in 2024 are still live. How to find and revoke them.
Aug 20, 2026 · 3 min
Compare
CoinStats alternatives: what self-custodians pick instead
The strongest CoinStats alternatives: Delta, Zerion, DeBank, Zapper, CoinTracker for taxes, and TrueHold. Which fits depends on what you hold.
Aug 30, 2026 · 3 min
TrueHold vs CoinStats: an honest side-by-side
We build TrueHold, so read this with the bias declared. CoinStats wins on mobile and integrations; TrueHold on perps, read-only custody and grounded AI.
Aug 29, 2026 · 3 min
Best portfolio trackers without KYC
Tracking moves no money, so it needs no identity. Address-based and read-only trackers work without documents by construction. The honest shortlist.
Aug 15, 2026 · 2 min
Taxes
The self-custodian’s tax season checklist
Six steps that turn tax season into paperwork: inventory, export, match, method, income events, records. Run it quarterly and April becomes boring.
Sep 1, 2026 · 2 min
Five exchanges, three wallets, one tax return
Fragmented portfolios create phantom gains: coins bought on one venue and sold on another look like pure profit to a tool that sees half the move.
Sep 1, 2026 · 2 min
How to export your crypto trades for tax season
Exchanges forget, APIs cap their history, accountants want one file. How to get every trade out of every venue while the data still exists.
Sep 1, 2026 · 2 min
Explainers
What is a seed phrase, and why no app should ask for it
Twelve or twenty-four words that are your entire wallet: how seed phrases work, how they get stolen, and the one rule that stops most crypto theft.
Sep 1, 2026 · 2 min
What is an xpub? Watch-only Bitcoin, explained
The extended public key that derives every address in a Bitcoin wallet, what it makes possible, and the privacy trade it quietly carries.
Sep 1, 2026 · 2 min
What is read-only access?
The permission model that lets software see your balances without touching them: key scopes on exchanges, the public address itself on chains.
Sep 1, 2026 · 2 min
See your crypto, DeFi and NFT portfolio in one place
Read-only by design: paste a wallet or link an exchange, and watch every chain live. Free to start.