10 Free Tools Every Altcoin Investor Should Use
PLUS: Vitalik Buterin plans to replace EVM for RISC-V to boost ETH scalability
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💡 10 Free Tools Every Altcoin Investor Should Use
📣 Vitalik Buterin plans to replace EVM for RISC-V to boost ETH scalability
📈 Bitcoin Dominance is surging again
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💡 Insight
🔥 10 Free Tools Every Altcoin Investor Should Use
In crypto, information = profit.
The earlier you spot high-upside altcoins, the bigger your potential gains. But with 25,000+ tokens out there, how do smart investors filter out noise and find legit opportunities before they pump?
Answer: They use the right tools.
I’ve spent hundreds of hours testing platforms, dashboards, and trackers. Here are the 10 free tools I use daily to discover and analyze altcoins — no paid subscriptions required.
🚀 1. Coingecko — The Essential Market Screener
Coingecko offers better filtering for low-cap gems, newly listed coins, and DeFi data. Set alerts, track categories (like AI, DePIN), and monitor narrative-based sectors.
📊 2. Token Terminal — Crypto’s Financial Dashboard
Think of this as Bloomberg for crypto.
Token Terminal gives you real revenue, P/E ratios, and protocol usage stats — crucial for separating hype from fundamentals.
📈 3. Dune Analytics — Custom On-Chain Insights
Dune lets you tap into thousands of community-built dashboards tracking everything from DEX volumes to active wallets. Great for spotting growing ecosystems before the crowd notices.
🔗 dune.com
📰 4. Messari (Free Tier) — Research & Narrative Tracking
Messari’s free version gives access to daily updates, sector overviews, and curated watchlists. Perfect for keeping up with emerging narratives.
⚡ 5. Artemis.xyz — L1 & L2 Ecosystem Comparisons
Artemis is a sleek tool to compare blockchain activity — from Solana to Base. If you’re betting on infrastructure plays, this is gold.
🧐 6. DexScreener — Where Microcaps Are Born
Before tokens hit Binance or Coinbase, they live (and moon) on DEXes. DexScreener helps you find trending pairs and liquidity spikes across chains like Solana, Arbitrum, and BSC.
🍪 7. Cookie.fun — Discover Trending Narratives & Tokens
Cookie is a narrative-trading dashboard showing which themes (AI, DePIN, Restaking) are gaining momentum. It also highlights top-performing tokens within those narratives. This is alpha for anyone who trades based on sector rotation.
💧 8. DeFiLlama — TVL & Protocol Tracking
Want to know which DeFi protocols are gaining traction? DeFiLlama tracks TVL growth, new launches, and airdrop opportunities.
📅 9. CryptoRank — Token Sales, Unlocks & VC Tracking
If you want to know who’s backing what, when tokens unlock, or upcoming IDOs—CryptoRank is a powerhouse. Perfect for front-running VC plays and avoiding post-unlock dumps.
🕵️ 10. Arkham — On-Chain Intelligence & Whale Watching
Arkham lets you track wallets of VCs, whales, and smart money. See where capital is flowing in real-time. If a top fund is accumulating a low-cap altcoin, you’ll know.
⚡ Pro Tip: How I Combine These Tools
Example Workflow:
Use CryptoRank to spot upcoming unlocks or IDOs.
Use Cookie.fun to see which narratives are heating up
Track whale movements on Arkham.
Validate fundamentals on Token Terminal.
Watch for volume spikes via DexScreener.
Confirm narrative momentum on X and Messari.
Find related low-cap tokens via DexScreener and Coingecko.
This system filters out hype and highlights legit opportunities before they trend.
📣 Update
Vitalik Buterin plans to replace EVM for RISC-V to boost ETH scalability
Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin shared a new proposal that would radically overhaul the system that powers its smart contracts.
The EVM is a key piece of Ethereum's underlying design and has been seen as one of the main elements that helped the network succeed in a crowded field of other blockchains.
Buterin argues that transitioning Ethereum to a RISC-V architecture will “greatly improve the efficiency of the Ethereum execution layer.
📈 Signal
Bitcoin Dominance is surging again
This metric represent the percentage of the total cryptocurrency market capitalization that is attributed to Bitcoin. A high dominance percentage suggests that investors prefer the relative stability of Bitcoin over more volatile altcoins, indicating a risk-averse environment.
The higher it goes, the more the altcoins will pump later in this cycle.
Most capital is still yet to rotate into altcoins.
BTC dominance is currently at 64%. It was close to 40% when the previous cycle peaked out.
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