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Everything you need to know about onchain

Onchain for Beginners

Below is a comprehensive glossary of key terms to help beginners understand the world of blockchain, cryptocurrency, and on-chain trading/investment.

Onchain Glossary for Beginners

Onchain analytics is all about analyzing blockchain activity — empowering traders, investors, and researchers with actionable insights. 

Onchain Explained

Crypto investing has gained immense popularity as digital assets like Bitcoin (BTC), Ethereum (ETH), and a variety of altcoins have emerged as viable investment opportunities. Unlike traditional stocks or bonds, crypto operates on decentralized blockchain networks, offering unique benefits and risks.

Crypto Investing for Beginners

Crypto trading involves buying, selling, or exchanging crypto with the goal of making a profit. Unlike traditional stock markets, crypto markets operate 24/7, offering opportunities around the clock. While the potential for profit is significant, the crypto market’s volatility and complexity can make trading daunting for beginners.

Crypto Trading for Beginners

Buying and selling crypto is the starting point for most people. While the mechanics of buying and selling crypto are straightforward, choosing the right platform, managing fees, and securing your funds can make a big difference.

Buying/Selling Crypto for Beginners

Staking is one of the most popular ways to earn passive income with your crypto. It allows you to lock up your crypto to support the operations of a blockchain network, such as transaction validation, and in return, you earn rewards. Staking is most commonly associated with Proof of Stake (PoS) blockchains, where participants contribute to the network’s security and efficiency.

Staking Crypto for Beginners

Nansen Academy

About Nansen

Who is Nansen For?

Affiliate Program

Navigate Nansen with ease by learning the basics

Nansen 101

Stop switching between analytics and trading platforms. From Smart Money signals to executed trades—all in one seamless workflow. 

Nansen Trading 101

Your entire onchain research and trading workflow, now conversational—ask questions, execute trades, monitor markets, all through one agent that follows you everywhere.

Nansen AI 101

Our loyalty program that helps Nansen users win by subscribing, staking, and referring.

Nansen Points 101

With over $2B in AUM, securely earn on crypto assets across multichain ecosystems through Proof-of-Stake mechanism.

Nansen Staking 101

Nansen's Crypto Portfolio is your all-in-one solution for tracking and analyzing your crypto investments across multiple chains and protocols. From monitoring real-time performance to simulating market scenarios, this powerful tool helps you make data-driven decisions with confidence.


Nansen Portfolio 101

AI-powered real-time alerts for significant onchain events across multiple blockchains. Monitor token movements, Smart Money flows, and emerging opportunities to stay informed and ready to act on market developments.

AI Signals 101

Catch whale movements, token transfers, and Smart Money activity before the market reacts. AI-powered alerts to understand what’s happening onchain — never miss another alpha move.

AI Smart Alerts 101

Get comprehensive AI-powered wallet analysis to identify connections between wallets and specific entities. Particularly effective for wallet ownership analysis and behavioral patterns.

Deep Research 101

Nansen API and MCP gives users programmatic access to high-quality real-time onchain data across numerous networks.

Nansen API/MCP 101

Track activities of the most profitable crypto traders and investors, from venture funds to whale wallets. Analyze movements of top market performers to gain insights that inform your investment strategy.

Smart Money 101

Nansen Labels and Watchlists helps you organize and track onchain wallets with ease. Instead of sorting through complex address numbers, personalize your Nansen experience and monitor important wallets, and tokens by labeling them according to how you want, tracking them in a watchlist.


Labels & Watchlists 101

Token Screener is a powerful discovery tool for identifying high-potential tokens using onchain data and market trends. From tracking Smart Money movements to analyzing trading volumes and market caps, this comprehensive tool helps you spot crypto token opportunities before they go big.


Token Screener 101

Token God Mode is a comprehensive view for diving into a token in detail. From tracking Smart Money movements to analyzing holder distributions and exchange flows, this powerful tool gives you a complete view of any token's activity.


Token God Mode 101

Dive deep into 500M+ labeled addresses and explore token relationships, connections between entities, and everything you need to understand everything onchain.


Nansen Profiler 101

Chains Growth dashboard provides a comprehensive view of onchain activity across multiple chains. From comparing key metrics to analyzing specific chain performance, this powerful tool helps you understand ecosystem dynamics and track network growth.

Chains Growth 101

Copy proven workflows from Nansen Power Users

Nansen Playbook

Understanding the difficulty levels of each playbook

Playbook Levels

Smart Alerts

Monitor Onchain Moves with Smart Alerts

Setting Up Smart Money Alerts

Portfolio Defense: Exit Triggers Using Smart Alerts on Top Holders

Automating Token Discovery with Smart Alerts

Smart Money

Finding Consistent Winners with Smart Money Leaderboard

High-Conviction Entry Signal via Smart Money Live Trades

Tracking Smart Money Soaking Up Supply

Token God Mode

Layered Due Diligence with Token God Mode

How to Use Token God Mode to Compare Holder Distribution and Assess Risk 

Detecting Accumulation Patterns in Token God Mode

Using Balance Divergences in Token God Mode

Track Smart Money Accumulation Early Using Token God Mode + Profiler

Using Token God Mode’s Top Holders Tab to Spot Exit Signals

Token Screener

Daily Token Discovery Using Nansen Homepage

Finding High-Potential Tokens with Token Screener

Discovering Fresh Memecoins with Token Screener

Identifying High-Signal Tokens with Token Screener

Nansen Profiler

Track Individual Wallets Over Time with Profiler

Evaluating Wallet Conviction Using Profiler PnL Analysis

How to Confirm Conviction by Identifying Holding Patterns with Profiler

Use Transaction History and Reverse-Engineer Entry Points

Workflows for other key features on Nansen

Other Features

Monitoring Your Portfolio and Exporting Data

Using AI Signals to Filter High-Signal Tokens

Smart Segments: Build Your Own Alpha Wallet Tracker

Building Watchlists with Smart Segments

Use Smart Segments to Filter for New Narratives

Using Hot Contracts for Token Discovery

Frequently asked questions to help you navigate Nansen

Learn everything you need to about trading with Nansen

Nansen Trading (Open Beta)

About Nansen Trading

 Get Started with Nansen Trading

Fees & Pricing

Features & Functionality

Security, Trust, & Troubleshooting

Everything you need to know about Solana data on Nansen

Solana on Nansen

Solana on Nansen Explained

Solana on Nansen for All Users

Everything you need to know about Nansen AI

Nansen AI

About Nansen AI

Get Started with Nansen AI

Everything you need to know about Nansen Points Program

Nansen Points

Everything you need to know about Nansen Points

About Nansen Points

About Season 03

Points, Tiers, and Rewards

Points from Staking

About Permissionless Rewards

About Points Partners

About Referral Program

Technical Issues

Frequently asked questions about Nansen Staking

Nansen Staking

About Nansen Staking

Staking Security

Questions about staking on a specific chain.

Staking Chains

About Liquid Staking Tokens (LSTs)

Everything you need to know about Nansen Pro

Nansen Pro

Pro Plan Explained

New Pricing Explained

Frequently asked questions about Nansen API/MCP

Nansen API/MCP

About Nansen API/MCP

Get Started w/ API

Get Started w/ Nansen MCP

Get Started w/ Research Agent

Data & Coverage for Nansen MCP

Specific questions about Nansen's products

Key Features

About Nansen 2

We've integrated over 28 different chains into our product and with every chain, we have different integrations throughout. Below is a comprehensive overview of Nansen's key features and how they benefit users across different blockchains.