How the crypto market works and how to read it. Every lesson shows the live figure it explains, measured by Coinmico across the venues and chains we index.
Strip away the jargon and a cryptocurrency is three things working together — a shared ledger, a set of rules for changing it, and a unit that the rules count. This lesson walks through each one.
Coinmico Editorial·Sep 20, 2026·4 min readWhat a coin, a token, a wallet and an exchange are, and how they fit together.
Strip away the jargon and a cryptocurrency is three things working together — a shared ledger, a set of rules for changing it, and a unit that the rules count. This lesson walks through each one.
Coinmico Editorial·Sep 20, 2026·4 min read
A coin runs its own network. A token is a program on someone else's. That one difference explains fees, bridges, stablecoins and why the same asset can trade at slightly different prices on different chains.
Coinmico Editorial·Sep 20, 2026·4 min read
A wallet holds no coins. It holds a key, and the key controls an entry on the ledger. Once that clicks, seed phrases, hardware wallets and "not your keys, not your coins" all make sense.
Coinmico Editorial·Sep 20, 2026·4 min readPrice, volume, market cap, dominance and the ways each one can mislead.
Market capitalisation is the number the whole industry ranks by, and it is one multiplication. Knowing what goes into each side of that multiplication is the difference between reading the ranking and being fooled by it.
Coinmico Editorial·Sep 20, 2026·4 min read
Volume is the figure that tells you whether a price is real. It is also the figure exchanges have the most incentive to exaggerate. Here is how to read it, where the distortions come from, and what changes when you count trades yourself.
Coinmico Editorial·Sep 20, 2026·4 min read
A heatmap shows the whole market on one screen — size as area, performance as colour. Read properly, it answers three questions a price list cannot: what is moving, whether the move is broad, and where the money is concentrating.
Coinmico Editorial·Sep 20, 2026·4 min readOrder types, perpetuals, funding, open interest and liquidations, explained.
Every trade begins with a choice of order type, and the choice decides whether you pay for speed or for price. This lesson covers the four you need, what each one does inside the order book, and the mistakes each one invites.
Coinmico Editorial·Sep 20, 2026·5 min read
More dollars change hands in perpetual futures than in the spot market they track. This lesson explains what a perp is, how it stays tied to the spot price without ever expiring, and why leverage makes it the market's main source of violence.
Coinmico Editorial·Sep 20, 2026·4 min read
Price tells you where the market is. Funding and open interest tell you how many people are leaning on it, and in which direction. Together they are the best early warning of a violent unwind.
Coinmico Editorial·Sep 20, 2026·5 min readLiquidity pools, swaps, slippage and how a price forms without an order book.
A DEX has no company, no account and no order book. It is a program on a blockchain that holds two piles of tokens and lets anyone trade one for the other. This lesson follows a single swap from your wallet to the pool and back.
Coinmico Editorial·Sep 20, 2026·4 min read
A liquidity pool replaces every bid and ask in an order book with one equation. This lesson works through that equation with real numbers, shows why large trades get worse prices, and explains what liquidity providers earn and what they risk.
Coinmico Editorial·Sep 20, 2026·5 min read
Two different things hide under the word "slippage", and confusing them is how traders lose 5% on a swap without noticing. This lesson separates them, explains the tolerance setting, and shows how bots turn a loose setting into their profit.
Coinmico Editorial·Sep 20, 2026·5 min readKeys, seed phrases, custody and the scams that cost people the most.
Self-custody means no one can freeze your coins and no one can recover them for you. This lesson covers what a seed phrase actually is, how to back it up so it survives fire and forgetting, and the choices that decide whether self-custody is safer than an exchange for you.
Coinmico Editorial·Sep 20, 2026·4 min read
Exchange accounts are rarely hacked through the exchange. They are taken over through the email, phone number and browser attached to them. This lesson closes each route, in order of how often it is used.
Coinmico Editorial·Sep 20, 2026·4 min read
A hardware wallet cannot save you from a signature you chose to give. Most on-chain theft today is not a stolen key but a granted permission — an approval or a signed message that lets a contract drain a wallet later. This lesson explains what each prompt means and which ones to refuse.
Coinmico Editorial·Sep 20, 2026·5 min read130 terms, each ending in the page on Coinmico where you can see the figure it describes.
