Introduction
- Welcome to Episode 74, a summarized guide for beginners in cryptocurrency.
- The video aims to consolidate key discussions from previous episodes into a single, accessible format.
Disclaimer
- The host is not a financial advisor; viewers should conduct their own research.
- Caution against sending money to self-proclaimed brokers or advisors.
Centralized vs. Decentralized Exchanges
- Explanation of the differences between centralized exchanges (CEX) and decentralized exchanges (DEX).
- Emphasis on the risks associated with CEX, including account freezes and hacks.
- Visual metaphor: CEX as small ponds controlled by individuals, while blockchains are vast oceans accessible to everyone.
Wallet Types
- Custodial Wallets: Managed by centralized exchanges, vulnerable to hacks and freezes.
- Non-Custodial Wallets: Users maintain control with private keys, offering greater security and freedom.
- Importance of understanding wallet types and their functionalities.
Common Myths about DeFi
- Myth 1: Creating a decentralized wallet is complex.
- Reality: It's simple and can be done in minutes.
- Myth 2: You need a CEX to buy crypto.
- Reality: Many wallets now allow direct purchases.
- Myth 3: Offramping requires a CEX.
- Reality: New partnerships allow spending directly from DeFi wallets.
- Myth 4: Moving between blockchains is difficult.
- Reality: Bridging has become faster and cheaper.
- Myth 5: DeFi wallets are easily hacked.
- Reality: Security depends on user practices.
Safety Tips
- Keep recovery phrases and private keys secure.
- Use multiple wallets to spread risk.
- Test new decentralized applications with small wallets first.
Wallet Recommendations
- Overview of various wallet apps and their functionalities.
- Explanation of how to create multiple wallets and manage them effectively.
Conclusion
- Encouragement for beginners to explore decentralized finance. For a deeper understanding of the opportunities available in this space, check out our summary on Understanding Decentralized Finance (DeFi): A Comprehensive Guide to Earning Opportunities.
- Wishes for a happy New Year for viewers.
Additional Resources
- An Excel sheet with wallet recommendations and blockchain mappings will be shared for further guidance. To learn more about the key concepts of DeFi and Ethereum's role, refer to Understanding Decentralized Finance: Key Concepts and Ethereum's Role.
- For those interested in maximizing their earnings, our guide on Maximizing Passive Income in Cryptocurrency: A Comprehensive Guide offers valuable insights.
hello everyone uh welcome to episode 74 um this video is kind of like a a summarized version of the discussions
that I've had with anyone this year whenever people have approached me and said that you know help me understand
about crypto help me get on to crypto right and I'm kind of repeating some context Elements which I thought
probably have not made it in a summary version in a video it spread across multiple videos and I tell them you know
watch these three or four episodes and the Hang off it but I thought I'll make like a you know 25 30 minute video which
is like a summarized context version that I can give to someone and say that this is it this is how you start in
crypto and this is these are the concepts the basic concept especially about def decentralized Finance because
um that's something that I think you know is still close to my heart because this is something that I've been
teaching for the last 50 plus episodes and and I wanted to explain this in one video like a beginner video for everyone
let's get on to the video we'll start with the disclaimer and warning as usual I'm not a financial advisor or
investment expert all of the videos that I've shared are just based on my own learnings take your own decision based
on your own research again never ever send your money to people who call themselves as professional broker or
investment adviser because pretty much all of them are frauds um and I'm very active in Twitter xplatform at CH leers
my handle so again just a brief summary right you know what does actually what does it mean when you say you know
moving from Central exchange to decentral exchange and why should you start your journey in crypto more on
descent exchanges and why should you quickly move even if you're on Central exchange why should you move to decent
exchanges right so if you followed my videos in the last four years from episode 23 onwards this has kind of been
my theme I've done various demos on various different blockchains with uh with explanation on how to operate on
those blockchains what wallets to use and so on what I'll be doing in this video is I'll also be providing like a
cheat sheet an Excel sheet which contains all the wallets that I'm using and for which blockchain which wallet
needs to be used and why these wallets needs to be used for these blockchains I'll kind of cover it in a um a brief
Excel sheet and share that Excel sheet as well and I have been warning uh in for the last more than one year that you
know moving that I have moved my funds out of centralized exchanges to decent exchange and why we should be moving it
out because you know no Central exchange is safe A lot of people ask me you know after the VX incident is coin dcx safe
is is this safe that safe none of the uh centralized crypto exchanges are safe to keep funds in and at any point of time
you could either be frozen out like coinbase is doing with a lot of people they're freezing the accounts of a lot
of people without any warning without any reason whatsoever so the the first thing is the central exchange can do
that the other thing is Central exchange can get fully hacked like vazer X had and they can freeze your complete assets
and it could happen to any Central exchange so none of even binance or coinbase none of the central exchanges
are safe so I kind of created this image which depicts the whole summary of this
video and I kind of used an AI tool to create this video so all the Imagine The the blockchain is a big Ocean or
interconnected Seas or all the you know oceans of the world being connected together right and the centralized
exchanges are like small pawns or small pools or small pawns on the sides of the blockchain which are controlled by
individuals or private organizations whereas the sea or the ocean is not basically you know owned or controlled
by anyone it is common for everyone and so in these small ponds around these blockchains around the the ocean you've
got a lot of fish there as well but the fish is controlled by the owner of those pools or pawns so if vazir x or coin dcx
or crypto.com or binance decide these are the the 100 varieties of fish that are going to be available in that pond
only those will be available in that pond and you will have an entry charge you have an exit charge and they can
very at any point of time they can say that you cannot come into this pool any longer you know it's only it's fully
controlled by us so this is how the central exchanges Works whereas if you see in the middle all of the uh the
blockchains kind of make up like the ocean or the the sea and it's free for everyone like anyone can access it at
any point of time from any point in the world you can go into SE right so you can and once you go into the water of of
an ocean then every blockchain is interconnected so similarly every water source is interconnected you can pretty
much go around the whole world in water itself world is made up of water right so that's how blockchains are also
interconnected that's how vast they are and what we the small boats that that they are that I've shown on this image
those are like you know what we use to navigate the oceans those are like the non-custodial wallets the wallet apps
that we use to navigate the ocean of blockchain so this is kind of depicting how free uh you are in a blockchain When
you entered it that you can catch pretty much any fish you know all the fish is available and you can there is no
restriction on what fish is available and what fish is not available take a moment to observe this image right and
this will you know we'll kind of keep referring back to this and this will keep resonating with you when you
understand and try and more and more understand this this whole video this image is going to kind of resonate to
you more and more when we go along this video right so just a small summary of differences right so the small pawns are
the central exchanges they can be controlled by the private companies they can be controlled by the government
whereas the ocean is as free as the internet allows us in in many countries so again you know if if you believe we
are in a full democracy we should be allowed to access all of the content in the internet but if there are countries
where even the open internet the internet is not as open as it should be so again it it depends on the level of
democracy in our country you know how open the access to the ocean is or all access to the the water sources right so
and in a small pond Only The Limited fish that are decided by the owners are available whereas in in uh in the open C
like in blockchain you can pretty much catch even the newly minted tokens like you know if the token was created like
previous second you can actually start uh buying it this second and you can catch from the Bitcoin which is the
whale to the smallest m coins possible so the the pawns that I shown in the previous image they only connected in
limited way and only if the pond owner decides to allow you a connection to the ocean that you can have connection to
the ocean as well if the uh the centralized exchange owner decides that you can't withdraw funds or you can't
withdraw crypto onto a blockchain then you can't withdraw crypto onto a blockchain a lot of Indian exchanges
used to do that they never allowed you to take funds out of the crypto exchange onto the blockchain so however in
blockchain all the blockchains are interconnected that you can actually Bridge from one blockchain to the other
as a beginner it's probably useful that you know before going out to sea to learn how to fish in a small pond like
you're getting to the you understanding the basics and this is what I was also saying in the beginning that you know
use a central exchange where you are trying to understand the concepts of what fishing is even but once you've
done this then you can actually take a free boat which is a non-custodial wallet and you can go to the ocean and
blockchain is again kind of similar so you can kind of see the relevance here why I used an image like that to to kind
of explain um what I'm trying to say in this video about Central exchange and non- centralized exchanges or
decentralized exchanges so again there is a uh the wallet difference is called custodial wallet the technical name for
it in a central is called custodial wallet and the wallet that you can create on your own is called a
non-custodial wallet so this a custodial wallet has got a centralized login and a password is maintained by a centralized
exchange organization non-custom wallet is not maintained by anyone it is directly created on the blockchain so
technically you will get a um instead of a password you'll get a private key or a 12w pass phrase which you can keep
safely if you've got that then pretty much anywhere that you are allowed to access the internet you should be able
to access the funds in the blockchain in the wall in the wallet that you have created so at any point of time um these
Central exchanges can block you from accessing the custodial wallets they can get hacked and you your funds may not be
accessible from that point onwards or the country regulations may stop you from accessing like you know binance was
blocked in India for a for a long time uh today Mex is blocked in UK um that we cannot access it so like that the
country regulations can stop you from accessing a centralized whereas in decent exchanges there should
technically be no geopolitical uh um blocking but even in some of the developed countries like UK these days
there are some uh even like ad drops are being blocked by the country so it currently depends on the scenario that
we are in that I'm talking about some common myths about D is that you know um it is very complex to create a
decentralized wallet or you know to to create a non-custodial wallet it's actually one of the most easiest things
you know it is it takes like literally few minutes based on my videos and I've got a lot of feedback when I met people
as well people with zero technical background have actually learned to create a non-custodial wallet in few
minutes just watch just like in a few videos they able to go and create a video so episode 24 and 25 is a perfect
example where teach you all the basics about creating a a non- centralized non-custodial wallet another uh common
myth is that you know you need a centralized exchange to put your money into only then you are able to buy
something and then take it to decent so you can you cannot onramp the technical term is called onramp cannot onramp um
money into the blockchain without the cental exchange this is again probably was true to a certain extent in 2020
2021 but today almost every wallet uh and most of the blockchains offer direct and again I'll show you in the Excel
what wallet what options are there and how you can buy uh directly using your debit card credit card bank account uh
the the third party providers who allow you to buy crypto directly on your non-custodial wallet in multiple
blockchains so in episode 60 for example I had shown a demo of depositing um money into arbitrum on metamask directly
in uh in some countries like for example in UK you can deposit using Revenue using Apple pay in some countries you
can do it using debit card credit card online banking Etc so I'll again show this in the Excel that I'm going to show
another common meth is that um okay putting money in is fine but taking money out to offramp the technical term
you still need a centralized exchange this is true to a certain extent because if you're taking out a large amount of
money um then you probably better of taking it through a centralized exchange because there isn't uh as much adoption
to uh the offramp process uh in terms of the decentralization but both visa and MasterCard have actually started
partnering and and uh allowing you to create um or allowing you to connect your uh Visa card or Master cards with
D5 wallets directly which means that you can directly spend money or crypto that is sitting on your D5 Wallets on your
non-custodial wallets uh um right from the metamask wallet itself so metamask itself in fact in Europe it is traling
out something called as a metamask card there is a provider called offramp for example there are multiple providers
that allow you to spend your crypto directly from your non-custodial wallet another common myth that used to
be there was that you know it is really difficult to move from one blockchain to another blockchain again this used to be
difficult in 2020 2021 but in the last four years things have Chang changed drastically that the bridging Concepts
have uh evolved and you know Circle cctp for example they've made it so simpler to move usdc from one blockchain to
another and also there are lot of new bridges that have come up new bridging techniques that have come up and most of
these bridges are cheap and fast uh like you know previously it used to take hours for bridging from one blockchain
to another now it can be bridged in like mere seconds except for ethereum where the gas fees could potentially be higher
except ethereum most other blockchains in between L1 and L2 you can move it quite quickly and fast and cheap uh both
another common D5 myth is that wallets D5 wallets especially nonc WS can easily be hacked or compromised this is again
you know uh very very subjective it's almost as true as you know saying emails and bank accounts can be hacked um
emails can surely be hacked if someone uh you know knows your password or login details and it can be compromised the
same thing here basically so if you are careful if you are as careful as your bank account login or your email login
with your wallet login details then chances of you getting hacked are kind of similar to your back account versus
your uh crypto wallet so and also another good thing to do is probably you know keep multiple wallets you know I
keep for example 10 wallets so that even if one wallet is gone like I'm probably losing about 10% of my funds so I'm
spreading my funds and and allowing me to protect them a little better as well right so some of the safety tips that we
can follow uh is that when you're creating a wallet you'll be shown this 12 recovery phrase this is like your
password and some um wallet apps show you another security setting called private key if you have either of the
wallet uh recovery phrase or your private key then you can recover anyone can recover that is the whole concept so
the the the thing is that you need to keep it very very safe so you shouldn't be um you know you shouldn't be putting
it as it is like if you have a 12 pH I can't just copy it and put it in the email just like that right because if
there's a Brute Force breaking into your email or into your computer and they read the 12w the immediate first thing
that the algorithm or the AI is going to know is that going to take it and try and see if there is a recoverable wallet
behind it so what else do you do you can either uh you can either write it down physically with a bit of twist or if
you're going to keep it in digital format just twist it a little bit you know change a few words that only uh you
will know or you will understand or it's not machine readable at least right and so um but make sure that you can
understand it for sure and also if you're writing it down or if you're keeping it somewhere make sure that your
next tokin your wife or your kids or whoever it is make sure an exofin knows how to access it as well so that it's
safer in case something happens to you then at least they know where to access it how to access it and again you know
like I said already have multiple wallets so that can be the risk can be spread across so uh the other safety tip
is that when you are trying out a new decentralized application let's say there is a new uh Unis swap like uh D
app that is coming so so another big safety tip is that uh when you're exploring a new
decentralized app like you know somebody's given you a new link for example or you've seen it in Twitter so
don't connect your uh main account or your main holding wallet where you've got a lot of funds have a small wallet
for it so connect with that wallet and and make sure that you're comfortable with the new app for you know one or two
days before you connect your main app to it especially you know add drop links or whatever it is do not always click and
and connect with your main wallet because it is always good to trial with a small wallet first especially trying a
a new decentralized application no matter who shared it and several times the most common way people get people
fall for is that a Twitter account or a telegram account has been compromised somebody's you know even you know some
sometimes even you know people like Trump and Elon mus their accounts could get compromised when and you will see
that the link coming from their account saying that urgent ad drop know if you click on this you'll get 100 PS and
that's where people fall for it and click on a suspicious link which then will connect to their wallet and will be
a drainer uh app that that has been built so whenever there is a u um a PSE that it sounds too good to be true don't
believe it just do enough investigation and again make sure connect with the small wallet so and especially if anyone
messages you directly and says uh you know let's tral out let's try and recover your funds let's you know
connect to this particular link never connect to those links in private messages or you know give them any of
your recovery codes or any of the details because most of the time people who message you directly they're all
scammers okay so some more Basics before we go into the Excel wallet now there are a lot of wallet apps like you know
onsan wallet previously it used to be called a c D5 wallet metamask rabi Soul flare Phantom why do we need these many
wallets right so I'll explain it when we go to the Excel um but primarily imagine wallets are like browsers you know your
recovery phases your login details so like how you can uh connect you know you can access the same web page in multiple
browser windows same way you can access the same account potentially with two different wallets by importing and or
what is called as a cloning process so I could have like for example CC info open in one website and Chrome browser I can
have Quick Info open in in Nintendo Explorer in Safari or in different browsers of the same time right same way
I can open the same account in multiple different wallets and the wallets will slightly have different functionalities
different futures for example right so um that's how it works that you could have it open in a phone as well like K
info you can open your mobile as well as you can open in laptop right so same way you can have the same account open on
mobile so I have my same account on my mobile as well as I have the same account on the laptop in in metamask
sometimes the same account I have it in laptop in metamask as well as in r because I want to kind of compare and
contrast using the same account I want to see the differences and in centralized pretty
much all that you can do is you can just trade from one token to another token but when you go into decentralized
applications or you know on the blockchain one category of D app uh decentralized application is called as
the decentralization where you can swap between one token to another token so but like your phone where we can
download multiple apps you can download games you can download you know um Power Tools download Imaging tools you can
download social media tools like you know Instagram WhatsApp so like that even in in in uh blockchain there are a
lot of daa categories so you can have lending staking liquid staking uh artificial intelligence you can have lot
of different uh D apps just like you can have in mobile apps one such category is the decentralized exchange in the D apps
so it's not synonymous like decentralized finance and Dex are not synonymous dexx is a subset of
decentralized Finance it's one of the categories of DS decentralized applications again when how you access a
decentralized application even though it is written in a smart contract the smart contract is hosted on a website so for
example Unis swap which is a DEX is hosted on a website called app. unis.org like this every uh desized application
is hosted on a blockchain enabled website so if you go to a blockchain enabled uh website like fcum or Unis
swap or pancak swap Finance then there will be an option on the right hand top corner to say connect your wallet and
when you click on connect wallet it will show you what are the wallets that that particular uh deset exchange that
particular blockchain support so if you go to a um a website which is a decentralized application written for
Sol then it will tell you that you have to connect with a Solana wallet like Soul flare or Phantom if you go to evm
enabled wallet D app then it will say you need to connect to metamask or you need to connect to rabi or one of those
categories and you'll understand it better when we go into the Exel in a couple of minutes so in Mobile it works
the same way uh when you download uh the app for metamask or Kepler which are all um the the wallet apps in that Wallet
app itself there will be a browser window and if you go to the browser window and put the URL in. then it will
ask you to connect again within the brows within the the the mobile app itself in the browser window it will ask
for connection it'll connect to that mobile app itself so that is how the the connection will work in a mobile
slightly different process but whereas in a in a browser there'll be a browser wallet extension which will then connect
to the website that you're opening at this point of time okay so um finally there's a concept called abstraction of
defi now all that we have talked about know private Keys public Keys the 12 word recovery phase these are all
getting simplified uh with with abstraction protocols and what it means like you know imagine like 25 years back
to just even connect to the internet we had a concept called dialup Model um a lot of people may not know this
especially young people may not know this it used to be an extremely complicated process you need to have a
bit of technical knowledge to operate this dialup model and you need to open a particular software and you need to do a
dialup process to even connect to the internet but today the the connection to the internet has become abstracted you
you open a phone it is a automatically connected to the internet you don't need to do anything complicated you don't
need to have a technical understanding of how to connect to the internet same way abstraction Protocols are trying to
connect you to blockchain without you having to know about wallets recovery phrase private keys and all those things
just use your Mobile and you're able to connect to the wallet is automatically created for you a wallet address is
automatically created and you already can log to your wallet just using your email or just using a Google account for
example that level of obstruction is what will take blockchain usage much much further so uh I will share this
Excel with you so what I've done is I've kind of categorized the wallets that I am using personally and for which
blockchain types so for example uh these blockchain types are written in a particular programming language so evm
is a theum virtual machine um Cosmos is the cosmos SDK mainly using atom and then Solana napos and after Solana has
written rust programming language for example so depending upon the programming language the wallets then
support that particular type of blockchain and most wallets have got a browser extension as well as have a
mobile app on their own some wallets so for example um you know if you take a bifrost wallet um which is used for more
flare bifrost W only has a mobile app it doesn't have a browser extension as far as I know if you take Zaman app for
example Zaman used to be XM it is an xrp Ledger wallet which is only there in mobile app and there is no browser
extension so uh but if you take ghost wallet for example we have only a browser extension
we don't have a mobile app yet but whereas most of the other common uh wallet apps like metamask rabby onchain
Kepler wallet soulare Phantom they all have both the browser extension as well as the mobile app both of them so
um the ones that I shown in green are the ones that I used on a daily basis the one like trust wallet and coinbase
wallet I used to use them I don't actively uh I I don't like the trust wallet so you don't actively use the
trust wallet on the coinbase wallet I feel they're a bit too restrictive and and I don't feel too safe when I'm using
these two wallets so I don't use the trust wallet and coinbase wallet but rest of the other wallet that are shown
in green I use it quite a lot now casar like I said it's not a blockchain itself it's a block DH so uh I had explained
that I was using a wallet called casare wallet obviously there were some initial challenges with it right now I'm using
ghost wallet instead of the cash wallet and there's also telegram bot so uh um a troan telegram bot I had made a video
about it how to use it for Solon and and telegram Bots make the usage a lot more simpler I would say engine wallet and
atomic wallet I think I shared it like in my original videos I had shared explanation of how to use engine wallet
I no longer use these wallets because I think they kind of become outdated with the new wallets that have come in right
now so that is kind of a categorization which wallets to use for which blockchain types and now if I go into
the actual blockchain mapping itself so for for eum smart contract these are the blockchains so ethereum is the L1 chain
just for ethereum Alone um there are some L2 chains that are built on top of ethereum so arbitrum for example polygon
for example base these are all L2 blockchains that are built on top of ethereum and to access all of them we
can use those any of the evm smart contract enabled wallet like you know you can use metamask or you can use
rabby like I shown in my video you can use all of these like for example I can use the onine call it for accessing any
of those other U blockchains so these are the blockchains that I commonly use and I commonly
access and so for the rest of them I'm not kind of categorized them as L1 or L2 because apart from ethereum most of the
other um the ecosystems they only have an L1 so for example atom injective osmo osmosis they are all L1 blockchains so
again if is written rust so right now Solana I'm using Soul flare and Phantom I've explained it in the video as well
so for abstraction layer for Zeon like I said you don't need a wallet you don't
need any of these wallet extensions or wallet types we can just use your email and you
can create a uh an abstraction layer level wallet and I'll show you this in a demo as I'll show you a separate video
uh I'll make a video for the Zion ecosystem separately so these are the blockchain
categories the blockchains that I specifically use and for these blockchains then I use the corresponding
wallets that I have given here as wallet mappings right and then um this is kind of an onr onramp list so in Kepler and
leap Cosmos in both of these you can use buy button on the wallet itself and you can get money onto osmo or usdc onto
osmosis in on injector multiple options are available most of the cosmos sub options you can actually onboard money
directly uh C is one of the common uh providers in in both these options but in Kepler you've got moonpay and trans
as well as more options you can use your net banking you can use your debit card credit card to onramp money onto it in
metamask like I said in my in one of the episodes I even made a demo on how to do it on arbitr but you can pretty much
choose like you can choose Bas you can choose ethereum you can choose multiple chains debit card faster payments even
in UK like I said revolute is also available sepa is available in Europe um Phantom wallet uh you can use for
onboarding money onto Solana this one works slightly differently it connects to something called as a coinbase pay so
if you have a coinbase account then it's actually quite useful because it links to your coinbase account and you can use
coinbase account to do a coinbase pay and onboard direct money onto the Phantom decentralized wallet or the
non-custodial wallet using one of your centralized accounts it's kindly uh is kind of interl here uh again kona's
onchain so the onchain wallet um links to the crypto.com account and you can on ramp even without the crypto.com account
there are other options as well where you can use the Buy button on the onchain wallet to on ramp CR or usdc or
usdt onto kronos's ecosystem Zeon um like I said which is the new obstruction layer wallet you can buy uh Zeon and
usdc directly using um Zeon dob.com zon there is there's a link that I've given you can buy using again c as a provider
you can buy using C uh directly onto your uh decentralized wet here and these are the common Bridge apps that I use
Orbiter uh Orbiter mainly used for evm wallets like especially between arbitrum and ethereum but nowaday I'm using Rhino
wallet which I find it really fast and cheap um especially to connect uh from from Solana to evm and also for ZK krona
evm so ZK Krona evm to arbitrum or any of the other L2 chains on evm uh Rhino is actually quite fast and cheap I would
say and within Cosmos and even between Cosmos and Solana and Cosmos and other um ethereum chains skip go and swap fast
have kind of becoming more and more the norm within the cosmos uh swap fast in fact developed by the same team that is
behind Le Cosmos wallet so it it kind of goes um both of them are kind of us it intermittently or
interchangeably and then Kronos bridge to to moving Kronos to Cosmos uh was actually very very fast much faster than
I expected so I can we can actually move atom token from Kos into Cosmos or atom token from Cosmos into Kronos using the
Kronos Bridge uh however moving between Kronos AVM and Kronos ZK AVM used to be a little tough because there's only one
centralized Bridge available uh which again meant that you need to have a crypto.com account if you're going to
move from Kronos evm to krono ZK EV but this has become faster now because of symbiosis which is kind of easier making
it easier to move between Kronos and Kronos zkm in the other way around Stargate Finance is one wallet that I
have have been using to move from arbitrum or from the evm wallets to flare uh getting money onto flare arbit
Stargate was something that I've been using someone had mentioned a couple of other options uh in the comment of the
Thum video I am yet to explore it if I explore it I'll add it onto new bridges in the bottom of this as a new link when
we are operating across these many blockchains and these many um networks it is essential to have some sort of a
portfolio tracker some sort of a uh a Tracker uh option that that allows you to see across the blockchains and see
you know what you have especially the state tokens especially your LP positions and everything so these are
some of the portfolio trackers that I use uh dbank is probably one of the top portfolio tracker and works for most of
the evm uh addresses so if you put your uh one evm address it tracks it across all the L1 and L2 chains in that wallet
um all the activity it will show in one place it's quite useful to have and quite powerful to have um for cost cosos
there's a uh profile Tacker called pulser um it's not as effective as as dmac because it doesn't show half of the
cosmos blockchains so potentially for Cosmos I prefer to use either the Kepler dashboard or the leap Cosmos itself
again in Cosmos there's no foolproof profile tracker available it most of it will show only up to about 70 to 60% of
your portfolio you will kind of have to live with all three of them to kind of see the overall portfolio at any point
of time and then finally this is all the the defi links that I'm currently using and this is again a work in progress
because when I started compiling it by the time I got about 20% of it the list was just going on and on and on so what
I thought was I'll share this list as a starting point and any other apps I'll keep adding onto it whatever apps that
whatever D apps that I am using and I'm testing and I'm using it on daily basis I'll kind of add to this list so you can
have an access to it or you can you will know that these are the D apps that I'm using at this this point of time and now
find when we come to the tokens that I have mentioned like the top 10 tokens like the ,000 portfolios this is where
you can buy these tokens now the link will start to make more sense okay so osmosis means that I need to have a
capital wallet I need to have a leap Cosmos wallet Unis swap ethereum means that I need to have a metamask or need
to have a rabby wallet Jupiter Solona means that I need to have a soul FL wallet or I need to have a phantom
wallet so now it will start to make more sense if you read this again and and if you now go back to the wallets tab
blockchain tab and you see it you open this Excel file you will start to understand more how these wallets and
how these blockchains and how these tokens are all interconnected and how you what you need to get onboarded with
it so now that you've seen the Excel file and now you've seen um the different wallet options available how
do you create like multiple wallets in the same computer right so what I do is I create in Chrome there is something
called as a browser profile so you can create a separate Gmail account and you can have different groupings available
like you can you can on the same computer you can have like you know up to
uh 10 or more profiles and you can create a profile and and each profile kind of acts like an individual browser
group and you can have one wallet in one browser open at the same time at the same time another uh profile uh in
Chrome you can open another wallet and you can keep both of those active or you can keep up to you know five six Active
at the same time that is how I kind of group my wallets group my browser profiles and that's how I keep the the
ecosystem and I'm able to operate in multiple wallets at the same time so and like I said I have about 10 browser
profiles open with 10 different logins and sometimes it becomes a bit little bit mad but I kind of know how to
navigate across all those wallets and uh each browser profile will have like one matam mask address it will have uh one
Soul flare it will have one Phantom it'll have one uh KLA wallet and so on so so you're able to kind of you know
segregate which which are the main accounts which are the I I won't even open a dog uh website for example in the
actual browser profile where where my main accounts are I'll probably have like I'll have like two or three test
accounts which I'm going to always use for opening some of the new links and some of the new options or when I'm
learning a new blockchain I'll always use it using the the the browser or the the browser profile where I've got a
test account or I've got a a smaller portfolio account so hopefully this video was useful to you um this kind of
like the similar conversation that I've had with multiple people this year explaining to them and like an
introduction to decentralized finance and what these wallets mean that to start hopefully this will give you a new
start to the entry into decentralized Finance as well in the New Year if you're watching it in the New Year I
wish you all a very happy New Year um and if you're watching it in the New Year's Eve you know wish you all uh an
advanced New Year wishes as well uh until next time thank you bye
Heads up!
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