if you want to make money in crypto then you're going to need the right tools but with so many apps daps chains and exchanges to choose from it's easy to get lost before you even begin if you can relate then you're in the right place this video is your ultimate toolkit packed with the top 10 mobile apps every crypto investor should have and best of all they are all completely free so we'll go over their pros and cons and drop a couple of tips about how we use them so you can maximize your crypto gains
my name is Guy stay tuned all right before diving in I want to note that even though these are our top 10 picks they are in no particular order there will also be many other fantastic apps out there that didn't make the list these are just the 10 crypto apps that we here at the coin Bureau use on a daily basis and that we think you will benefit from we'll leave the official links for each app down in the description for your convenience okay so the first app we have for you is binance the world's
largest crypto exchange by trading volume binance is renowned for its robust and simple design offering a wide range of features including spot trading derivatives trading peer-to-peer trading and even saving binance is trusted by more than 260 million investors worldwide and binance users can enjoy some of the lowest trading fees of any centralized exchange and you can even reduce those fees further by using BNB the coin launched by The Exchange the platform also offers 247 customer support via email and online chat so you'll quickly get the help you need if you get stuck and binance is
also known for being super secure in 2018 it introduced the secure asset fund for users or safu for short basically safu is an emergency Reserve established to ensure users don't lose any funds if there is a hack or exploit binance also implements threshold signature schemes or TSS a cryptographic protocol for distributed key signing this means that no single employee can move funds and most importantly binance stores most of its funds in offline cold storage facilities binance's risk management system analyzes every TFA or password reset withdrawal attempt and email address change so if it believes anything
unusual is happening it'll suspend withdrawals for 24 to4 48 hours or longer depending on your responses The Exchange supports more than 600 cryptos and around 1,000 trading Pairs and notably binance has stricter listing criteria than many other exchanges meaning there's a much lower chance of you looking at a shady crypto project binance co-founder yei recently confirmed that for a crypto to be listed The Exchange assesses its Roi its potential to innovate and attract new users and the amount of bug because it can generate in the market there's also a strict focus on Regulatory Compliance so
there's less chance of any potential backlash from Regulators like the SEC as noted earlier binance also has an exceptional choice of flexible earn products that allow you to grow your crypto stack and these include features like defi staking autoinvest liquidity farming and the binance pool which supplies mining services that anyone can leverage so if you're interested in binance you should check out the link below for our written deep dive review over on the coin bureau website and if you don't have an account there yet then you are in luck if you sign up using the
link down there then you'll not only be eligible for a $600 signup bonus but also 20% of trading fees for life so follow that link down below and hit the sign up now okay now if you happen to be someone who's looking to actively trade rather than just buy and sell then one of the best crypto exchanges for that is bibit bibit has risen to prominence for its Ultra fast matching engine High liquidity and instant trade execution and this presents a huge advantage over other exchanges where liquidity can be much lower making it difficult to
execute buy and sell orders efficiently at the time of shooting buybit supports well over 1,700 cryptos and is available in 160 countries like binance bybit features a passive invest investment platform called bybit NN with a range of financial products for all risk appetites when it comes to security meanwhile bybit remains an industry leader all customer funds and the majority of buybits reserves are kept in Cold Storage moving These funds around requires the use of multi- signature technology now unfortunately bit's perfect track record of security was shattered recently in crypto's single largest ever hack by dollar
value for context over $1.4 billion in assets were drained from the platform by North Korean hacking group Lazarus fortunately bibit responded swiftly within an hour of the attack CEO Ben xhia was on a live stream taking questions while confirming that withdrawals would continue and would be fulfilled just two days after what could have been a catastrophic event bit announced it had fully replaced the stolen crypto with proof of reserves soon to follow most importantly though no bybit users lost money and indeed a few days later it emerged that the hack had been executed via an
exploit of a third party systems and not by bits The Exchange and its security protocols were not to blame regardless this setback showcased bit's crisis management skills which were impeccable and stopped the situation from getting any worse that's why despite all of this bybit remains one of our favorite exchanges and you can learn more about buybit by checking out our video guide right over here and if you don't yet have a buybit account then be sure to take advantage of our exclusive buybit deal where you can get up to $60,000 in rewards this is exclusively
for coin Bureau users only and the link is down below right then once you've scooped up some crypto on an exchange the first thing you'll want to do is move it off that exchange that's because you should never leave your crypto on an exchange even one as reputable as binance or buybit as the old saying goes not your keys not your crypto this means moving your crypto into a wallet that you control if you want to maximize security then the best practice is to use a hardware wallet but for actively managing your crypto and using
web 3 you'll need a Mobile Wallet app so why not get the best of both worlds and use a mobile wallet that can connect to your Hardware wallet well the most integrated of the lot has to be metamask many wallets have come along since metamask launched in 2016 but very few have captured anything like the same market share with more than 30 million monthly active users metamask is the go-to wallet for interacting with the ethereum blockchain metamask can also store cryptos on evm chains like Bas BNB chain Avalanche polygon arbitrum optimism and more and in
2023 metamask announced snaps which are sort of like plugins snaps allow metamasks to store cryptos like salana Cosmos and even Bitcoin now aside from the basic deposit withdraw and web browsing functions metamask also has a portfolio feature this allows you to track your cryptos and nfts as well as Buy sell swap bridge and stake all from within your wallet while this is all super convenient there is a trade-off this convenience comes at a cost using metamasks to buy and swap cryptos is pretty expensive the fees you'll pay will likely be significantly more than what you'd
pay on a centralized exchange and metamask swap feature comes with a fee of 0.875 per a little on the Steep Side by crypto standards now if you're setting up metamask for the first time then check out our step-by-step video guide on using metamask below or you can check out our written guide over on coin.com now I have to be honest with you metamask is far from perfect and both its UI and ux leave a lot to be desired but it's been around for a long time and no Contender has yet dethroned it so it remains
an essential tool for pretty much anyone wanting to use web 3 but we can't discuss metamask without mentioning another wallet that's taken the industry by storm phantom phantom is the leading wallet for the salana blockchain ethereum's biggest competitor sana's fast and cheap transactions have made it a go-to chain for many users looking for a much more efficient EXP experience Phantom launched in 2021 5 years after metamask and it already boasts over 15 million monthly active users that's because it was built with the user experience in mind with an interface that's so refined and approachable that
it's hard to think of another crypto app with a better UI of course it helps that salana is so cheap and efficient but Phantom really does deserve Its Own Credit here within the wallet you can view simplified charts for your crypto you can also so buy send receive and Swap and if you're sticking with salana you can even stake your soul all without leaving the app what's great though is that even though metamask doesn't support salana at least not without snaps the Phantom wallet is actually evm compatible this means Phantom can hold ethereum's eth other
erc20 tokens and nfts you can even import your entire metamask wallet into phantom for ultimate convenience Phantom also supports Bitcoin and more recently sui and you can learn more about Phantom and how to set it up by checking out our Deep dive review over on the coin bureau website that too is linked to below okay now while software wallets are a great way to take ownership of your crypto Keys there's really no safer option than an offline Cold Storage Hardware wallet and one of the best hardware wallet Brands out there is ledger now when it
comes to choosing a hardware wallet many people View Simplicity as a main selling point and well not only are Ledger wallets themselves incredibly simple but The Ledger Live app that supports them is super versatile and has one of the most intuitive designs setting up Ledger live is a breeze and once you're in you'll be met with a homepage featuring a handy performance tracker for your stored cryptos your assets are broken down in percentage terms to show you how you've Diversified and you'll also see the cryptos that are trending the most and options to buy sell
Swap and earn directly within the app meanwhile exploring the menu tucked away on the left will also reveal a wide range of options there's the market tab which presents you with a view of the crypto Market with integrated buttons to buy and trade thousands of cryptos there's also the discovery tab allowing you to explore all the web 3 Services Ledger integrates with including liquid staking Solutions on and off ramps yield aggregators and more there are also dedicated tabs for send receive yield buy sell and swap options there's also Ledger recover service which protects your recovery
phrase now normally if you were to lose this then you'd lose your crypto forever however Ledger recovery encrypts your recovery phrase and splits it into three fragments each secured by separate companies so if you do lose it all you need to do is prove your identity and you'll regain access to your crypto Fortune now what we love most about Ledger live though is that you have full control over your crypto with everything you need right at your fingertips and yet at no point does it feel overwhelming so whether you're a beginner or a crypto Pro
you'll feel right at home and if you want to pick up a ledger device then you are in luck because we have an exclusive offer for you where if you buy a ledger Stacks or Flex using the link down below then you'll also get a $10 gift card to load your device up with Bitcoin and this is only available to coin Bureau viewers so reminder that link is down below now on to the next app for every investment it is of course critical that you do your own research for many this involves starting with two
of the only apps in crypto that are often spoken of in the same breath coin market cap and coin gecko these two Market data aggregators are incredibly similar so you'll have everything you need no matter which one you choose for an in-depth comparison you can check out the link in the description for today though we've chosen coin gecko coin gecko streams a ton of live crypto data into a clean userfriendly interface that gives you an easy way to find the information you need at the time of shooting the platform tracks market data for more than
177,000 different cryptos and more than 1,200 exchanges coin gecko also features some great educational content and their courtly report on the state of the market are fantastic we've even covered a few of them here on the channel in the past and one feature you should take advantage of is coin gecko's watch list and portfolio tracker this is where you can group all the cryptos you're interested in onto one page rather than going through each one individually then once you've Ved in you can enter your transaction details and recreate your portfolio this gives you a One-Stop
shop to track your performance which is especially useful if you have crypto stored in multiple wallets across multiple blockchains although we should caveat that it can be a little tedious to enter every detail about each transaction like exactly when you bought how much and what fees you paid but we reckon it's well worth the time as it'll give you roughly the same overview of your portfolio that you'll find in many other paid apps now with coin gecko tracking over 177,000 tokens you'll have probably noticed that this is way more than what's available on centralized exchanges
however that's just the tip of the iceberg 177,000 is nothing compared to the millions of different cryptos that are actually out there you see the vast majority of cryptos exist as tokens on chains like ethereum and salana most of these will only be accessible on a decentralized exchange and very few will ever become big enough to be tracked by coin gecko or coin market cap so then how do we track these obscure tokens well we can use decent centralized Exchange Market aggregators that can detect a crypto the minute it begins trading and our app of
choice here has to be Dex screener at the time of making this video there are well over 160,000 unique trading pairs being tracked there unfortunately the Lion Share of these will be memes dead tokens or scams or all three the good news is that Dex screener provides you with onchain data helping you determine if what you're looking at is legit or something to avoid this data is provided by external Auditors and can reveal things like whether the team can increase the token Supply impose taxes on buys and sells or prevent you from selling entirely assuming
everything looks legit you'll want to double check the token has the right contract address which you can do by copying the address right next to the ticker compare this with the contract address for the crypto you think you're buying to confirm if you're buying the correct token and not a carbon copy with the same ticker created by some lowlife scammer now de screener does a great job of bringing the experience of decentralized exchanges one step closer to that of centralized exchanges which are usually more sophisticated it uses the same industry standard trading view chart interface
as many centralized platforms and allows you to set price alerts for the cryptos you want so for example if a mem coin you're holding moves up or down by 50% well you'll probably want to know about it so it's great that Dex screener sends notifications Fresh Off The the blockchain directly to your phone at this point we'd be remiss if we didn't mention crypto's most popular social media app in today's list and that is telegram almost every crypto project you check out will have its own telegram Channel almost everyone working in crypto uses Telegram and
anyone networking within the industry will almost certainly use telegram to do so in fact some projects are even based on telegram such as a number of play to earn games or Trading Bots that can be operated right within the telegram app itself telegram makes it easy to converse with other DG hunting for Alpha in different channels or groups and some of these will be nothing more than pump and dump groups aiming to build your fomo levels to the max only to dump their bags on you later but there are plenty out there that will help
you keep on top of the market and some will even provide actionable Alpha that could potentially make a huge difference to your portfolio if you're not sure where to start then we actually have a video about our favorite telegram channels which you can find over here and if you want to see all the top news stories of the last 24 hours along with dates for your diary and alerts for when we push a video then you need to subscribe to our telegram Channel coin Bureau Insider the link to that is of course below moving on
though and to stay on top of the latest developments in crypto you'll need a constant feed of both crypto specific news and broader macro related updates that could shake the market unfortunately too many crypto news outlets churn out nothing more than clickbait headlines and biased piss poor editorial slop thankfully though there are a handful doing the industry a great service by keeping their standards to an absolute maximum as such our next app is an absolute must for many members of the coin Bureau team and that's coin Telegraph if you're unfamiliar with coin telegraph's website it's
sort of like an online newspaper for all things crypto but despite being chalk full of news updates nothing feels cluttered and the cover art for each article features a distinct house style that really pops out and what all of this means is that you could quite comfortably spend hours on coin Telegraph without feeling overwhelmed it's the same with the mobile app which is basically a condensed version allowing you to get updates on the Fly you can turn on notifications for breaking news Market updates and even price changes of the top 10 cryptos so your phone
is pinged with updates that are far more reliable able than the crap you get from social media and best of all every article is beautifully written with professionalism behind every word and biases mostly kept to one side to be clear though you shouldn't take any new source at face value and it's best to maintain a critical view of any potential biases but in our experience coin Telegraph is one of the best crypto news sources out there and we couldn't mention social media without mentioning X formerly known as Twitter I say formally but I honestly don't
know anybody that doesn't still call it Twitter crypto X just doesn't have the same ring to it as crypto Twitter and well don't even get me started on tweets anywh who while Twitter's name may have changed since Elon Musk bought it back in 2022 One Thing Remains the Same it's still the home of the crypto Community now pretty much everyone who's in crypto uses Twitter or X or whatever you want to call it these include everyone from crypto projects influencers experts analysts posters scammers trolls heck even AI agents are posting there these days so this
means that the quality of information you get very much depends on the types of accounts you interact with follow the right accounts and you'll have a powerful tool for analyzing Market sentiment crypto industry Dynamics technical analysis and much more besides you'll also stay ahead of the pack since your catch announcements the minute they're made long before new sites like coin telegam can write them up just keep in mind though that some tweets have been known to jump the gun so as a rule of thumb don't trust verify follow the wrong accounts and you'll get bombarded
with a bunch of lowquality clickbait that's posted purely for clout or shitcoins and scams being promoted by those hunting for the next person to use as exit liquidity it is a one-way trip to getting wrecked so keep your guard up out there in the trenches to avoid this happening to you we recommend making use of the apps list feature to create your very own feed of accounts that provide quality valuable information and if you find yourself checking some accounts more than others why not turn on push notifications on that note why not give us a
follow on X we'll tell you the latest Market Shenanigans our thoughts and insights and even throw the odd crypto meme in there for good measure and you can find links to all our socials in the description below along with all of the other fantastic resources we have to offer and okay there you go the top crypto apps you can't do without let us know in the comments which ones you would add to this list and if you found this video helpful like And subscribe for more and if you want our latest video you can find
it right over here thank you all for watching and I'll see you again soon
