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The guides
The fourteen records tell you what specific coins are. These four pieces teach you to read any of them — including ones this archive has never covered.
Three are about method: how supply figures work, what the layer 1 and layer 2 distinction costs you in practice, and what backs the dollar-referenced tokens most people end up holding. The fourth is practical, for the point at which you have finished reading and want to actually buy something.
How to read a token's supply and emission schedule
Total, max and circulating supply are three different numbers; market cap and fully diluted valuation are two more. This is the vocabulary every record on the site assumes, plus the arithmetic that makes an emission curve readable.
Layer 1 vs layer 2: what the difference costs you
Written backwards from the fee and the wait, rather than forwards from an architecture diagram. Covers bridges, withdrawal delays, and why the same coin on two networks is two different balances.
Stablecoins: what actually backs the big ones
Three structures that all say “one to one” and mean different things. Includes the question most explainers skip entirely: whether you personally can redeem, and what it means that you probably cannot.
Buying your first token: from account to storage
The mechanics, including the annoying parts: verification failures, deposit costs, choosing the right pair, and the step most guides omit — deciding where the coins live afterwards. This is the one page carrying the site's referral link, marked as one.
What these guides will not do
They will not tell you which coin to buy, when to buy it, or what it might be worth later. There are no price forecasts anywhere on this site and no ranking of assets against each other, because ranking requires a view about the future and this archive does not have one.
What they do is give you the questions to ask and show you where the answers are published, so that you can go and check a claim rather than take anyone's word for it — including ours.
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