How to track your entire crypto portfolio in one place
Exchanges, wallets, DeFi, perps and NFTs answer to different apps until you aggregate them. The read-only recipe for one total, and one honest PnL.
The recipe for seeing everything you own in one number has two ingredients: public addresses for everything on-chain, and read-only API keys for everything on exchanges. Feed both into one tracker and the total assembles itself, updating live, without any app ever gaining the power to touch a coin. The rest of this guide is the practical order of operations.
Why portfolios shatter in the first place
Nobody plans to run five venues. It accrues: an exchange for on-ramping, a hot wallet for DeFi, a hardware wallet for savings, an L2 for cheap fees, a perp venue for trading. Each shows its own slice in its own app with its own numbers. The person holding all five slices is the only place the full picture exists, and human memory is a terrible database.
Step one: wallets, by address
Every wallet you own is trackable by pasting its public address, including the hardware wallet you never connect anywhere. Address-based tracking is read-only by nature: no signature, no approval, nothing a malicious site could exploit. Add every address you control, including the dusty ones; forgotten wallets are where surprises live.
Step two: exchanges, read-only
Exchange balances sit behind logins, so they need read-only API keys: credentials that can see balances and history but can never trade or withdraw. Create one per exchange, enable nothing beyond reading, and connect. The walkthrough for Binance is here; the pattern is identical everywhere.
Step three: the parts dashboards forget
- DeFi positions: LP shares, lending deposits and staked assets do not show up as wallet balances; the tracker has to decode the protocols.
- Perps: accounts on Hyperliquid, Lighter, dYdX and GMX carry exposure and funding that belong in the total.
- NFTs: illiquid, but not worthless; they belong in the picture, priced honestly.
- Staked and vesting balances: locked is not gone. A total that skips them undercounts you.
What one view changes
With everything in one place, questions become answerable: what is my real allocation, what changed since yesterday, which slice earned and which quietly bled. TrueHold was built for exactly this assembly job: 180+ chains, exchanges via read keys, DeFi, NFTs and perps, one total with a composition. Set it up once; the picture stays live.
Frequently asked questions
Do I have to connect my wallets to track them?
No. Wallets are tracked by pasting public addresses, which is read-only by nature. Connecting, in the sign-a-transaction sense, is never required for tracking.
Is it safe to give a tracker my exchange API keys?
With read-only keys, yes: the exchange enforces the permissions server-side, so the key can see balances but cannot trade or withdraw no matter what happens to the tracker.
How many wallets and accounts can one tracker handle?
Good trackers handle dozens without complaint. Add everything, including small and old wallets; completeness is what makes the total trustworthy.
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See your whole portfolio in one view
Read-only by design. Paste a wallet, link an exchange, and watch every chain. Free to start.