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What a cryptocurrency actually is
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.
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Crypto and Market Data, Explained
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.
Using Coinmico4 lessonsCrypto basics4 lessonsReading market data9 lessonsTrading & derivatives5 lessonsOn-chain & DEXs4 lessonsSecurity3 lessons
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Using Coinmico
What Coinmico is, how its market data is measured, and how to use its website and apps.
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What is Coinmico?
Coinmico is an independent crypto market data platform that measures prices and activity from the trades and on-chain pools it indexes.
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BeginnerUsing Coinmico
How Coinmico measures crypto prices
A plain-language guide to the trades, outlier checks and fallback labels behind Coinmico's reference prices.
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Coinmico vs CoinGecko vs CoinMarketCap
Three crypto data services, three ways to assemble a market view. Compare their public data approaches, coverage, apps, APIs and languages.
2 min readCrypto basics
What a coin, a token, a wallet and an exchange are, and how they fit together.
BeginnerCrypto basics
What a cryptocurrency actually is
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.
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BeginnerCrypto basics
Coins vs tokens: what the difference means for you
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.
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BeginnerCrypto basics
Wallets, keys and addresses: what you actually hold
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.
4 min readReading market data
Price, volume, market cap, dominance and the ways each one can mislead.
BeginnerReading market data
Market cap: what it measures and how it misleads
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.
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BeginnerReading market data
How to read trading volume — reported vs measured
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.
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BeginnerReading market data
How to read a market heatmap in thirty seconds
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.
4 min readTrading & derivatives
Order types, perpetuals, funding, open interest and liquidations, explained.
BeginnerTrading & derivatives
Order types explained: market, limit, stop and the ones in between
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.
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BeginnerTrading & derivatives
Best time to trade crypto: volume by hour and day
Crypto trades around the clock, but activity does not. Coinmico measurements show when centralized-exchange volume and Bitcoin's hourly moves have tended to cluster.
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IntermediateTrading & derivatives
Perpetual futures: the contract behind most of crypto's volume
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.
4 min readOn-chain & DEXs
Liquidity pools, swaps, slippage and how a price forms without an order book.
BeginnerOn-chain & DEXs
What a decentralised exchange is, and how a swap works
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.
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IntermediateOn-chain & DEXs
Liquidity pools and AMMs: how a formula sets a price
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.
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IntermediateOn-chain & DEXs
Slippage and price impact: the cost nobody shows you
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.
5 min readSecurity
Keys, seed phrases, custody and the scams that cost people the most.
BeginnerSecurity
Seed phrases and self-custody: holding your own keys without losing them
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.
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BeginnerSecurity
Exchange account security: closing the routes attackers actually use
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.
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IntermediateSecurity
Token approvals and signing safety: what you agree to when you click confirm
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.
5 min readGlossary
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130 terms, each ending in the page on Coinmico where you can see the figure it describes.
Address
A public identifier derived from a key pair that can receive coins or tokens on a blockchain.
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A free distribution of tokens to wallet addresses, usually to reward early users or attract attention.
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