You might be reading whitepapers, watching trading tutorial and reading trading books, reading CoinDesk, Cointelegraph or Decrypt, using Coinmarketcap and CoinGecko or even watching for the tweets of big market players (Ah, Elon Musk, I know you love his tweets. ) but there are more resources that could help you in making well-informed decisions when it comes to investing.
Here are seven (7) underrated websites that you must consider when doing your own research when investing in crypto.
1. Coinmarketcal (https://coinmarketcal.com/en/)
It is the leading economic calendar for reliable cryptocurrency news. It covers all events that help crypto traders make better decisions.
2. Coin Fair Value (https://www.coinfairvalue.com/)
It displays the fair value, P/E Equivalent and fundamental investing data of cryptocurrencies less any speculation.
3. CryptoQuant (https://cryptoquant.com/overview/btc-exchange-flows)
It has all the data that you need to know about the inflows and outflows of crypto to and from exchanges, market indicator, and network indicator, among others.
4. Glassnode (https://studio.glassnode.com/metrics?a=BTCm=addresses.ActiveCount)
It tracks the number of addresses of top cryptocurrencies, how many are active as well as miner activities and exchange balances, inflows and outflows.
5. Messari (https://messari.io/)
It provides curated insights, market data, and research solutions.
6. Altcoin Season Index (https://www.blockchaincenter.net)/altcoin-season-index/
It compares the performance of top 50 cryptos against Bitcoin to determine whether it is altcoins or Bitcoin which is winning in terms of price performance.
7. Airdrops (https://airdrops.io/)
It is an aggregator for crypto airdrops, bounties and competitions.
These are all free services while some may require subscriptions for highly-technical data and research (you do not really need them at all unless you are part of an investment firm's strategy and research division).