Crypto Analysis and Analytics Tools by Job (2026)

What Are the Best Crypto Analytics Tools?

The right crypto analytics tool depends on the job. A block explorer such as Etherscan is the starting point for checking an Ethereum transaction or wallet, DefiLlama compares DeFi protocols, Token Terminal tracks protocol financial metrics, Dune hosts community-built on-chain dashboards, and CoinGecko or CoinMarketCap cover prices and market caps. This page lists more than 200 crypto research tools, dashboards and platforms as of November 2026, grouped by use case, NFTs, blockchain and project.

Key Takeaways

• Start with the question you want answered, then pick the tool built for that job.
• Etherscan is the main block explorer for Ethereum. It is read only and free to search without an account.
• Cross-check important numbers on two sources, because dashboards define metrics differently.
• Use approval checkers such as Revoke.cash or Etherscan’s Token Approval Checker to review which apps can spend your tokens.
• Data helps you research. It does not tell you what to buy.

Quick Picks: Crypto Analysis Tools by Job

Job	Tool and what it does
Look up an Ethereum transaction or wallet	Etherscan: block explorer for the Ethereum blockchain
Compare DeFi protocols and chains	DefiLlama: analytics and rankings dashboard for DeFi protocols
Check protocol revenue and fees	Token Terminal: financial metrics for crypto protocols
Track developer and chain activity	Artemis: dashboard of on- and off-chain developer activity across blockchains
Explore on-chain dashboards	Dune: community-built dashboards on blockchain data (examples below)
Check prices and market caps	CoinGecko, CoinMarketCap: cryptocurrency price aggregators
Find DEX pools	GeckoTerminal: pool and DEX data across many layer-1 and layer-2 blockchains
Compare Ethereum layer 2s	L2BEAT: analytics and research on Ethereum layer 2 networks
Review token approvals	Revoke.cash, Etherscan Token Approvals: shows which apps can spend your tokens so you can revoke them
Track token unlocks	Our token unlocks guide: how to read unlock schedules and which trackers to use

Etherscan

Etherscan is a block explorer for the Ethereum blockchain. It describes itself as a search engine for blockchain data: it collects transactions, addresses, blocks, tokens and smart contracts and turns them into pages anyone can read (Etherscan). It is free to search without an account. It is read only, so it cannot move, reverse or recover funds, and it never needs your private keys or recovery phrase.

What you can do on Etherscan

• Confirm whether a transaction succeeded, failed or is still pending, and see the fee paid.
• Look up any wallet address’s ETH balance, token holdings and transaction history.
• Check a token’s contract, holders and transfers before you interact with it.
• Read the source code of verified smart contracts.
• See current network fees on the Gas Tracker before you send.
• Review and revoke apps that can spend your tokens with the Token Approval Checker.
• Create a free account to add addresses to a watch list and get alerts (Etherscan Information Center).

How to look up a transaction on Etherscan

1. Type etherscan.io into your browser. People often search “ethscan” or “ethereum scan”, and lookalike sites exist, so check the address.
2. Paste a transaction hash (the transaction’s ID), a wallet address, a block number or a token name into the search bar.
3. On a transaction page, check the Status, From, To, Value and Transaction Fee fields.
4. If a transaction is still pending, the Gas Tracker shows whether fees on the network are currently high.

Etherscan for other blockchains

Etherscan’s API covers more than 60 EVM-compatible chains with a single key, after the older chain-specific APIs moved to Etherscan API V2 in August 2025 (Etherscan Docs). Other ecosystems have their own explorers, such as Solscan for Solana. You will find explorers for each major chain in Section 3 below.

How to Use These Tools in Your Research

Tools answer questions; they do not pick investments. Start with what you are trying to find out, such as who holds a token’s supply, whether a protocol earns real fees or when the next unlock is, and then choose the tool built for that job. Our guide to reading on-chain metrics explains the numbers these dashboards show, and our crypto research page explains how our analyst team works.

The Full List: 200+ Crypto Research and Analytics Tools

Below is a list of analytics tools, dashboards and platforms that you can use to supplement your cryptocurrency research. Where relevant, project names link to their corresponding website, app or asset page.

The resource is divided into four sections, each of which is ordered alphabetically. Some tools appear in multiple sections.

• Section 1: Categories & Use Cases
• Section 2: Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs)
• Section 3: Blockchain-Specific Explorers & Tools
• Section 4: Project-Specific Tools

Section 1: Categories & Use Cases

AI Agents

• Agentic Market: tracking adoption of agentic commerce, discovering services to buy for your agent, and selling services to other people’s agents.
• Cookie.fun: tracking AI agents’ performance against onchain and social metrics.
• GoatIndex AI: data layer for onchain AI agents.

Airdrops

• DefiLlama (Airdrops): list of tokenless protocols that may airdrop.
• Earnifi: automated wallet tool for airdrops, NFTs and POAPs.

DAOs and governance

• Boardroom: platform and suite of products improving distributed decision-making for decentralised organisations.
• DeepDAO: comprehensive metrics on DAOs and DAO tokens.
• Tally: website tracking proposal reviews and voting stats for several projects.

Dapps

• Dapp.com: analytics and rankings dashboard of dapps.
• DappRadar: analytics and rankings dashboard of dapps.
• State of the Dapps: analytics and rankings dashboard of dapps.

DeFi

• DeBank: tracking gross value locked (GSV), which equals the total value (USD) of all ETH and other ERC-20s locked in smart contracts.
• DefiLlama: analytics and rankings dashboard for DeFi protocols.
• DeFi Users Over Time: Dune dashboard tracking users overall and for several DeFi protocols.
• REKT Database: database of 2,500+ DeFi hacks, exploits and rug pulls.

DePIN

• DePIN.Ninja: dashboard for all things DePIN.
• DePINscan: explorer for DePIN projects.

Developer metrics

• Artemis: dashboard tracking on- and off-chain developer activity across various blockchains.

DEX

• DEX Metrics: Dune dashboard tracking Ethereum-based DEX activity.

Digital asset treasuries (DATs)

• Strategic ETH Reserve: dashboard tracking ETH reserve allocations across public companies.
• Strategic SOL Reserve: dashboard tracking SOL reserve allocations across public companies.

Financial metrics

• Crypto Fees: tracking fees generated by blockchains and crypto organisations.
• Money Movers: tracking the settlement value ($USD) of the Bitcoin and Ethereum blockchains.
• Open Orgs: tool tracking the treasury accounts of major crypto organisations.
• Token Terminal: financial metrics for crypto protocols.
• Token Unlocks: detailed tokenomics data, insights on significant unlocks, and their implications

Fundraising

• Raises (DefiLlama): table of crypto funding announcements.

Gas

• ethgas.app: Ethereum gas price gauge.
• useWeb3 Gas Tracker: Ethereum gas tracker by useWeb3.

Impermanent loss

• Baller: simulator for Balancer Pools.
• Observable IL Calculator: IL calculator.

Internet Capital Markets

• Believe Screener: real-time tracking and analytics for Believe projects. Monitor token prices, market caps, trading volume, and holder statistics.

Layer 2

• Bitcoin Layers: a website that analyses Bitcoin L2s and sidechain protocols against a general framework. Built by LX Research Labs.
• L2 Watch: website by tracking the Bitcoin L2 ecosystem. Built by Blockchair.
• L2BEAT: analytics and research website about Ethereum L2s.
• Orbiter: onchain data aggregation and data analysis platform for the Ethereum L2 ecosystem.
• Rollup.wtf: real-time performance metrics for rollups. Built by Conduit.
• The Block Data Dashboard (Scaling Solutions): tracking value locked in L2s.

Lending and borrowing

• DeFi Rate: interest rates from top cryptocurrency lending protocols and crypto banks.

Liquidity pools and yield farming

• Ape.tax: experimental registry for liquidity pools and yield farms.
• APY Vision: all-in-one liquidity pool analytics and yield farming rewards tracking tool.
• CoinGecko Yield Farms: calculator for yield farmers.
• Etherscan Yield Farms: list of yield farms provided by Etherscan.
• GeckoTerminal: web app displaying pool and DEX data across a large number of layer-1 and layer-2 blockchains.
• Pools.fyi: third-party app tracking liquidity pools on Balancer, Bancor, Curve and Uniswap.
• Revert: liquidity pool tracking app.
• Vfat.tools: analytics dashboard providing liquidity pool information from DeFi platforms across multiple blockchains.
• Yieldfarming.info: analytics for liquidity pools across major DeFi apps.
• Yield Farming Tools: tools and analytics for yield farming pools.

Locked liquidity

• Unicrypt: platform to provable lock liquidity into smart contracts.

Market data aggregators

• CoinGecko: cryptocurrency price aggregator.
• CoinMarketCap: cryptocurrency price aggregator.
• CryptoCompare: cryptocurrency price aggregator.
• Cryptowatch: cryptocurrency price aggregator.
• DexGuru: real-time data analysis on tokens.
• DEXTools: real-time data analysis on tokens.
• DropsTab: tracking crypto market and token metrics.
• Quantify Crypto: tracking crypto market and token metrics.
• The Block Data Dashboard: platform tracking key crypto metrics.
• Dora: real-time crypto analytics platform tracking transfers, swaps, and mints across networks like Ethereum, Polygon and much more

Maximal extractable value (MEV)

• Flashbots Transparency Dashboard: dashboard of metrics related to the Flashbots mev-boost relay and builder since Ethereum’s Merge.
• MEV Explore: analytics dashboard that’s reducing information asymmetry on MEV activities and illuminating the “Dark Forest”. Built by Flashbots.
• MEV Watch: website tracking the percentage of Ethereum blocks built by OFAC-compliant mev-boost relays, as a percentage of mev-boost-proposed blocks or all blocks.

Mining

• HashrateIndex: analytics and insights for PoW blockchains including miners, algorithms and coins.

Miscellaneous

• 2022 to 23 Unlocks: Google Sheet with unlock info of several tokens. By @bobbybanzai.
• Carbon.fyi: calculate the CO² footprint of an Ethereum address.
• Chainlist: connecting web3 wallets to EVM-compatible blockchains.
• Crypto Market Map: a searchable and downloadable market map of the crypto landscape consisting of over 1,500 projects. Built by Electric Capital.
• Degen Score: determines investor types based on tokens held.
• Disperse: distribute ETH or Ethereum-based tokens to multiple addresses.
• DustSweeper: clean out small token balances and swap for ETH with minimal gas.
• How Traceable is your Ethereum Address?: determines whether a wallet address can be traced back to any Twitter account. By @m1guelpf.
• Modular Cloud: a block explorer for modular blockchains.
• State of Crypto Index: interactive tool by a16z crypto that tracks the health of the crypto industry from a technological perspective. Data is updated monthly.
• Token Faucet: a list of token contracts deployed on all testnets with deterministic addresses. By DefiLlama.

Participation platforms

• POAP: proof-of-attendance protocol and creator of POAP tokens.
• Poap Art: NFT and art platform built by POAP.
• Poap Fun: raffle events for POAP holders.
• RabbitHole: Web3 tool to earn crypto as you participate with DeFi.

Portfolio tracking

• DappRadar: analytics and rankings dashboard of dapps.
• DeBank: portfolio tracking, DEX and DeFi market analytics platform.
• Zapper: portfolio tracking, DEX and DeFi market analytics platform.
• Zerion: portfolio tracking, DEX and DeFi market analytics platform.

Real-world assets (RWAs)

• RWA.xyz: Websites tracking every tokenised real-world asset, all in one place.

Regulation

• The Great Coin Run: Insolvency Tracker: Website tracking publicly-reported information relating to the 2022 crypto industry liquidity crisis. Maintained by Preston Byrne.
• U.S. Crypto Policy Tracker: Website tracking by the Crypto Council for Innovation that tracks U.S. legislation and reports following the Executive Order on Digital Assets.
• Cod3x: real-time updates on the evolving crypto regulatory scene, it’s a collaborative platform for lawyers and creators

Security, code reviews and audits

• DeFi Safety: rating system for DeFi apps and smart contracts.

Social analytics

• Alternative crypto metrics (The Block): charts on web traffic, social activity and app usage.
• Heimdall: rankings of cryptocurrencies by social activity.
• Santiment: data feeds and market intelligence platform for crypto-assets.

Stablecoins

• Bluechip: independent rating agency for stablecoins.

Staking

• staking.directory: community-maintained directory of Ethereum staking providers.
• Staking Rewards: data provider for staking and growth tools.

Token lists

• Token Lists: community-led initiative to improve discoverability, reputation and trust in ERC-20 token lists.
• Token Sniffer: platform tracking trending, newest and top tokens as well as latest exploits and hacks.

Wallet approvals

• Approved Zone: tool to track the apps that you have approved to spend your tokens with.
• Etherscan Token Approvals: review and revoke your token approvals for any dapp.
• Revoke: website that lets you to revoke your token allowances.
• Token Allowance Checker (TAC): shows approvals for ERC-20 tokens with the option to change or zero the allowance.

Zero-knowledge technology

• Ingopedia: GitHub repo that lists resources and links related to zero-knowledge technology.
• ZK Market Map: a searchable and downloadable market map of the ZK sector consisting of over 250 projects. Built by Electric Capital.

Section 2: Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs)

Art

• 0xchain.art: directory of art projects that are entirely onchain.
  • View the 0xchain.art data as a sortable table on this website is Takens Theorem.
• CryptoArt: aggregated information on rare NFT and digital art pieces from major NFT platforms.

CC0

• cc0.dev: registry for CC0 NFT projects.

Identity

• ENS.Tools: discover dropping, expired and dictionary ENS names.
• ENS.Vision: ENS bulk search tool.

Music NFTs

• Catalog (Dune Dashboard): dashboard tracking various metrics specific to Catalog.
• Future Tape: a minimalist player for the web3 tracks on Catalog, Sound and Nina. Tracks most active artists and top collectors.

NFT market data and analytics

• CryptoSlam!: analytics and rankings for NFT and blockchain assets.
• Derisk: web app for viewing transaction details and derisk amounts.
• Inspect: platform that ranks Ethereum and Solana NFTs on community strength as measured by social signals.
• JPEG.CASH: calculate your Ethereum-based NFT profit or loss. Supports multiple wallet addresses and only ETH transactions.
• NFTGO: NFT data aggregation platform with features including multi-dimensional NFT market rankings; market data visualisation and an asset search engine.
• NFT Timeline: website tracking the history of NFTs.

NFT Dune dashboards

• Interactive NFT Floor Tracker (by @smaroo)
• NFT: Analytics, Dashboard, Floor, Holders, OpenSea (by @Cyw3n)
• NFT Comparison (by @danner_eth)
• NFT Floor and Volume Tracker (by @keephydrated)

NFT price data

• Blur: NFT marketplace and aggregator for pro traders.
• Floor Finder: multi-collection floor tracker.
• NFT Price Floor: website tracking NFT price floors.
• WGMI: an OpenSea floor and account valuation tool.

Section 3: Blockchain-Specific Explorers & Tools

Aptos

• Aptos Explorer: block explorer for Aptos. Supports mainnet, testnet and devnet.
• Aptos Systems: directory of projects building on Aptos, an upcoming layer-1 blockchain.

Arbitrum

• Arbiscan: block explorer for the Arbitrum One and Arbitrum Nova chains.

Arweave

• Arweave Wiki: a wiki including all major Arweave documentation and technical information.
• Block Explorer: block explorer for the Arweave protocol.

Avalanche

• Avascan: data on blockchains, assets, transactions, smart contracts, validators and delegators on Avalanche.
• Burned AVAX: dashboard displaying total fees burned in terms of AVAX and USD.

Base

• BaseScan: block explorer for Base, an L2 built on Ethereum. Also has charts and other tools.

Binance Smart Chain (BSC)

• BscScan: block explorer for BSC.

Bitcoin

• Bitcoin Network Graphs: charts on Bitcoin’s hash rate and block versions. Built by Pieter Wuille.
• Bitcoin Treasuries: list of known BTC in the treasuries of traditional private and public companies.
• Blockchain explorers by Blockchain.com, Blockchair and BTC.com.
• Blockchain Centre: BTC ‘rainbow’ price chart since 2012.
• Clark Moody Bitcoin: dashboard tracking key network stats.
• Digitalik: BTC stock-to-flow model chart.
• Fund Flows (ByteTree): dashboard tracking the number of BTC held by ETFs and other ETPs globally.

Canton

• Canton Dashboard: key metrics related to the Canton network, powered by The Tie.

Cardano

• Cardano Explorer: block explorer for the Cardano blockchain.

Celo

• Celo Explorer: web app to explore Celo blocks, transactions, addresses, balances and more.

Cosmos

• Apps & Services: webpage tracking apps and services built on Cosmos.
• awesome-cosmos: GitHub repo that lists projects related to the Cosmos ecosystem.
• cosmos.directory: directory of blockchains built with the Cosmos SDK.
• Cosmos Explorer: block explorer for Cosmos by The Big Dipper.
• Cosmos Outpost: insights platform to visualised network trend and validators uptimes.

Decred

• Decred Block Explorer: comprehensive explorer for all things Decred.

Ethereum

• Block explorers by Etherscan, Blockchain.com and Etherchain.
• BTC on Ethereum: tracking the amount of BTC on Ethereum.
• Client Diversity: tracking the distribution of Ethereum’s consensus-layer clients and execution-layer clients.
• Dope Crypto Sites: a collection of educational resources for all things Ethereum.
• Ethereum Nodes: tracking the status of certain Ethereum nodes.
• Ethereum Roadmap: tracking the phases of Ethereum’s development roadmap.
• Ethernodes: real-time statistics on Ethereum mainnet.
• pools.invis.cloud: tracking the Prysm usage of popular Ethereum staking pools such as Coinbase, Kraken and Binance. By @0xinvis.
• Ultra Sound Money: metrics on ETH issuance and Ethereum’s gas usage. Also has a simulator for projecting future ETH supply.
• Validator Queue: tracking metrics related to the activation queue and withdrawal queue.

Flow

• Flowverse: list of projects and upcoming NFT drops on Flow.

Fuel

• awesome-fuel: GitHub repo that lists resources related to the Fuel ecosystem.

Handshake

• HNS Explorer: block explorer for Handshake.

Hyperliquid

• ASXN: dashboard tracking assistant fund buckbacks over various timeframes.
• HYPE Burn: dashboard tracking aspects of the HYPE supply (e.g. burn from trading fees).

Nervos

• CKB Explorer: site for exploring addresses, tokens, blocks, hash rate, Nervos DAO information and all other activities on Nervos CKB.

Oasis

• Oasis Scan: web app for exploring Oasis blocks, transactions and validators.

Optimism

• Optimism Explorer: block explorer for OP Mainnet. Also has charts and other tools.

Polkadot

• PolkaProject: all projects building on Polkadot and Substrate.
• PolkaStats: dashboard for validator stats.

Sei

• SeiScan: blockchain explorer for Sei.

Stacks

• Stacks Explorer: blockchain explorer for Stacks.

Starknet

• awesome-starknet: GitHub repo that lists resources related to the Starknet ecosystem.
• Starknet Ecosystem: directory of projects building on Starknet.
• Starkscan: next-generation Starknet block explorer.

Tezos

• TzStats: a Tezos blockchain analytics explorer.

Zcash

• Zcash Explorer: web app to explore Zcash blocks; transactions; addresses; balances; nodes and protocols; blockchain stats; and charts.
• Zchain Explorer: analytics and visualisation dashboard for Zcash.

Section 4: Project-Specific Tools

1inch

• 1inch.exchange Dashboard: Dune dashboard with 1inch analytics.

Aave

• Aavescan: website with live and historical Aave rates.
• Aavewatch: website displaying the latest key data on the Aave protocol.

Aragon

• Aragon Dashboard: public Aragon analytics dashboard by Scout.

Balancer

• Balancer Dashboards: directory of community-made Dune dashboards and analytics for Balancer.
• Pools.vision: analytics dashboard for Balancer liquidity pools.

Bancor

• Bancor Network Data Dashboard: a Dune dashboard with Bancor analytics.

Basic Attention Token

• BraveBat: Brave creator directory and growth tracker.

Chainlink

• CCIP Explorer: lightweight block explorer for seeing the status and details of CCIP transactions.

Compound

• Compound Rates: website for exploring historical APY data for Compound.
• Compound v2: Supplier & Borrow Health: Dune dashboard tracking lending and borrowing on Compound v2.

Connext

• Connext Explorer: network explorer for tracking detailed analytics both at the network level and chain-specific levels. Built by CoinHippo.

Curve

• Stats: webpage with the latest stats on each Curve pool.

EigenLayer

• Restaking Dashboard: webpage with stats on EigenLayer staking pools. Built by Nethermind.

FOAM

• FOAM Tools: third-party app for interacting with the FOAM Map.

The Graph

• Subgraph Explorer: webpage displaying all subgraphs that are immediately available for querying using GraphQL.

Loopring

• Loopring Dashboard: Dune dashboard with Loopring analytics.
• Loopring zkRollup Explorer: layer-2 block explorer for Loopring.

MakerDAO

• Dai Stats: dashboard for real-time Dai stats from the Ethereum blockchain.
• DeFi Explore: information about collateralised debt positions on Maker’s multi-collateral DAI protocol.

Nervos

• CKB Explorer: site for exploring addresses, tokens, blocks, hash rate, Nervos DAO information and all other activities on Nervos CKB.

Nexus Mutual

• Nexus Mutual Tracker: analytics dashboard for Nexus Mutual.

Numerai

• Erasure Bay Dashboard: Dune board with stats on Erasure Bay.

Pump.fun

• fees.pump.fun: dashboard tracking historical pump.fun revenue and PUMP purchases since token launch.

Raiden Network

• Raiden Explorer: explorer displaying information about the status of the Raiden Network.

Ren

• Command Centre: dashboard tracking RenVM stats and the number of operating dark nodes.

Sia

• SiaStats: explorer with charts and advanced metrics for the Sia network.

Sky

• Sky Ecosystem: dashboard tracking various key metrics. Built by Block Analitica.

Synthetix

• stats.synthetix.io: dashboard with stats on SNX and sUSD staking, and more.

Uniswap

• Unistats: open-source utility that fetches historical fee accrual for any Uniswap exchange.
• Uniswap Info: explorer with transaction and liquidity pool stats for Uniswap.

World

• Mini Apps: dashboard to track mini apps, which enable third-party developers to create native-like applications within World App.

Zora

• ZoraScan: real-time Zora creator launch tracker.

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