A Stellar explorer is a website that lets you search the Stellar ledger by account, transaction, ledger number, or smart contract and read the result in plain form. For Soroban, Stellar’s smart contract platform, the best choice depends on the…
A DigiByte explorer is a website that lets you look up any block, transaction, or address on the DigiByte network and see what happened, without running a node yourself. Paste in a transaction ID and it shows whether the payment…
AML KYC software is the toolset a crypto business uses to answer two questions: who is this customer, and where did their money come from? KYC covers the first, through identity checks. AML covers the second, through wallet screening, transaction…
The best prediction markets in 2026 are Kalshi and Polymarket by volume, followed by a newer group of brokerage and sportsbook-branded apps: Robinhood, Fanatics Markets, OG.com and Crypto.com. A prediction market lets you buy shares in the outcome of a…
DeFi apps are on-chain applications (also called crypto dapps) that let you lend, borrow, trade, or earn yield through smart contracts instead of a bank or broker. The best DeFi apps in 2026 are the ones that kept real capital…
An RPC provider is a service that runs blockchain nodes for you and lets your application read data and send transactions through an API. Most RPC providers speak the same protocol, so the real differences sit in five places: how…
A dedicated node provider runs a blockchain node that only your application uses, so nobody else’s traffic competes with yours for CPU, disk or bandwidth. You pay a flat monthly fee for that isolation instead of paying per request. It…
A flat-rate RPC plan charges a fixed monthly fee for a set amount of capacity, so the bill stays the same however many requests you send or which methods you call. It replaces the usual credit-based bill, where a heavy…
Buying an NFT without checking it first is like buying a signed painting without turning it over to read the back. The image in a marketplace listing tells you almost nothing about whether the token behind it is real, who…
An Ethereum RPC provider is a service that gives your application access to the Ethereum blockchain through hosted nodes, so you can read data and send transactions without running your own infrastructure. NOWNodes, Alchemy, Infura, QuickNode, and Chainstack all offer…