Crypto Trading & DeFi Guides
Learn the math and strategy behind crypto trading, DeFi yields, tax planning, and risk management. Every guide connects to a free calculator so you can put theory into practice.
Need to check a wallet before sending funds?
Use the Address Risk Checker to review blacklist hits, behavior signals, and data confidence instead of guessing whether an address is safe.
Need to check a token contract before you buy?
Use the Token Risk Checker to review liquidity, holder concentration, ownership controls, and contract warnings before you touch a meme coin.
Security Guide Hub
Crypto scams are increasing. This section helps you identify risks before you transfer funds — from wallet safety and address verification to scam detection patterns and instant checker tools.
Is Crypto Wallet Safe?
Understand wallet types, risks, and protection strategies. Learn when hot wallets are unsafe and how to store funds securely.
Read guide →Is This Crypto Address Safe?
Check any wallet address for scam signals, blacklist matches, and behavior warnings before you send funds.
Read guide →How to Check if a Solana Wallet Is Safe
Use free Solana RPC data, blacklist checks, and behavior signals to judge wallet safety before sending funds.
Read guide →How to Check if Crypto is a Scam
Spot phishing, rug pulls, fake tokens, and impersonation scams. A step-by-step checklist anyone can follow.
Read guide →Crypto Wallet Scam Checker
Instantly check if a crypto wallet or address is safe. Get risk scores, blacklist checks, and blockchain analysis in seconds.
Try tool →Token Risk Checker
Paste a token contract and check liquidity presence, holder concentration, mint permissions, and contract warnings.
Try tool →Related Security Guides
Go from guide to calculator in one click
Use the exact tool behind the guide. These links strengthen the main calculator hubs for liquidation, position sizing, funding, DCA, tax, and gas fee estimation.
Understand DeFi risks before you chase yield
This cluster connects the broad DeFi risk overview to the three risk types that matter most on this site: lending risk, yield farming risk, and stablecoin depeg risk. Each page routes readers into the right calculator or safety checker before they deposit, borrow, or buy.
DeFi Risks
Start here for the big picture on smart contract risk, liquidation risk, depegs, bridge risk, and scam exposure.
Read guide →DeFi Lending Risks
Focus on health factor, liquidation, oracle failures, collateral composition, and protocol-level lender risk.
Read guide →Yield Farming Risks
Cover impermanent loss, reward token volatility, leverage loops, and malicious farm or pool setups.
Read guide →Stablecoin Depeg Risk
Learn how peg breaks hit lenders, LPs, and leveraged borrowers, and why stable principal can vanish fast.
Read guide →7 Stablecoins Compared
Compare USDT, USDC, USD1, USDe/sUSDe, PYUSD, FDUSD and USDS by issuer, reserves, audit, redemption, chains and yield.
Read guide →USD1 Stablecoin Facts
Track USD1 issuer data, reserves, attestations, supported chains, redemption access, exchange data, and holder yield status.
Read guide →USDe and sUSDe Facts
Track Ethena's synthetic dollar design, sUSDe rewards, backing assets, attestations, contracts, and redemption access.
Read guide →PYUSD Stablecoin Facts
Track PayPal USD issuer data, Paxos reserves, KPMG reports, supported chains, redemption access, and market data.
Read guide →FDUSD Stablecoin Facts
Track First Digital USD issuer data, reserves, attestations, supported chains, redemption access, and market data.
Read guide →USDS Stablecoin Facts
Track Sky Protocol's USDS, DAI conversion, collateral backing, Sky Savings Rate, sUSDS, contracts, and market data.
Read guide →USDT Stablecoin Facts
Track Tether issuer data, reserve disclosures, redemption terms, supported chains, market data, and holder yield status.
Read guide →USDC Stablecoin Facts
Track Circle issuer data, reserve composition, monthly assurance, supported chains, redemption terms, and market data.
Read guide →DeFi Risks
A practical overview of smart contract, liquidation, stablecoin, bridge, and scam risks across lending, farming, and wallet workflows.
Stablecoin Yield Strategies
Learn how to earn passive income with USDT and USDC across Aave, Compound, and top DeFi protocols. Compare strategies, calculate true APY, and manage risk.
How the Clarity Act Impacts Stablecoin Yield
Understand how U.S. regulation could change stablecoin rewards, DeFi yield access, and the safety profile of USDC and USDT.
USDT vs USDC Yields
Which stablecoin earns more in DeFi? Compare lending rates, risks, and historical performance to choose the right stablecoin for your yield strategy.
7 Stablecoins Compared
A neutral table comparing USDT, USDC, USD1, USDe/sUSDe, PYUSD, FDUSD and USDS by reserves, audit, redemption, chains, market data and yield status.
USD1 Stablecoin Facts
A neutral factsheet covering USD1 backing, BitGo redemption terms, Crowe attestations, market data, supported chains, and holder yield status.
USDe and sUSDe Facts
A neutral factsheet covering Ethena's synthetic dollar, backing model, sUSDe rewards, attestations, market data, and contracts.
PYUSD Stablecoin Facts
A neutral factsheet covering PayPal USD, Paxos reserves, KPMG reports, supported chains, market data, and redemption terms.
FDUSD Stablecoin Facts
A neutral factsheet covering First Digital USD, reserves, attestations, supported chains, market data, and redemption terms.
USDS Stablecoin Facts
A neutral factsheet covering Sky Protocol's USDS, DAI conversion, Sky Savings Rate, sUSDS, contracts, and market data.
USDT Stablecoin Facts
A neutral factsheet covering Tether reserves, attestations, supported chains, redemption terms, market data, and yield links.
USDC Stablecoin Facts
A neutral factsheet covering Circle reserves, monthly assurance, supported chains, redemption terms, market data, and yield links.
DeFi Lending Risks
Understand smart contract, liquidation, and depeg risks before depositing your stablecoins. Learn how to stress-test your lending positions.
Yield Farming Risks
Understand where high APY breaks down: impermanent loss, reward token dumps, leverage loops, and unsafe pools or farm contracts.
Crypto Airdrop Tracker
Track airdrop tasks, multi-wallet progress, gas fees, bridge costs, and farming expenses locally in your browser.
Stablecoin Depeg Risk
See how a peg break can damage lenders, LPs, and leveraged positions even if the underlying protocol itself keeps working.
How to Calculate Liquidation Price
Step-by-step guide to calculating your crypto futures liquidation price. Covers Binance, Bybit, and OKX with real formulas and examples.
What Is Impermanent Loss
Understand impermanent loss with simple analogies and math. Learn when liquidity pools are profitable and how to calculate IL for any price scenario.
Crypto Position Sizing Guide
Master the 1% rule, risk management, and leverage math. Never blow up your account again with disciplined position sizing.
How to Calculate OKX Futures Position Size
Size OKX USDT perpetual trades from account risk, entry, stop-loss, leverage, fees, and funding cost.
Crypto DCA Strategy
Dollar-cost averaging strategy guide for Bitcoin and altcoins. Includes the "target average" technique for recovering underwater positions.
DCA vs Lump Sum Crypto
Compare gradual buying with immediate deployment by timing risk, volatility, fees, and investor behavior.
Crypto Funding Rate Explained
Understand perpetual futures funding rates, how they work, and delta-neutral arbitrage strategies. Calculate your funding costs or yields.
How to Calculate Bybit Fees
Estimate Bybit spot and futures fees with order size, maker/taker behavior, VIP tiers, and round-trip cost.
Binance vs Bybit Fees
Compare exchange costs by product type, maker/taker mix, VIP tier, discount assumptions, and futures funding.
Crypto Exchange Fees Explained
Understand maker fees, taker fees, spread, slippage, VIP tiers, discounts, and futures funding.
How to Use a Grid Trading Calculator
Plan price range, grid count, capital per grid, expected profit, and exchange fee assumptions.
How to Calculate Crypto Profit and Loss
Calculate gross PnL, net PnL, break-even price, leverage effect, and fee-adjusted trade results.
Crypto Tax Guide
How cryptocurrency is taxed worldwide in 2026. Learn capital gains vs income tax, cost basis methods, DeFi taxation, and filing best practices.
What Is a Crypto Scam Address?
Learn how scam wallets are tagged, why blacklists lag, and how to interpret wallet risk signals without assuming a wallet is safe.
How to Check Wallet Safety
Follow a practical checklist for blacklist hits, behavior signals, and confidence before transferring crypto.
Blacklist Explained
See how community blacklists are built, why they are useful, and where they fail when new scams appear.
Related Calculators
Looking for direct tool pages instead of educational content? Start with the liquidation calculator, position size calculator, funding rate calculator, DCA calculator, or crypto tax calculator.