Guides

Guides for choosing and operating crypto tools.

Short checklists for the parts that usually get skipped: method support, wallet recovery, app metadata, imports, reconciliation, and launch ownership.

How to Choose a Crypto RPC Provider

A checklist for choosing managed blockchain access without treating public RPC endpoints as production infrastructure.

Base RPC Provider Checklist

What Base builders should compare before choosing managed RPC infrastructure.

Base App Discovery Checklist

A builder checklist for preparing an app for Base App and ecosystem discovery.

Crypto Tax Software for DeFi Users

What to check before relying on a crypto tax product for wallets, DEX trades, bridges, NFTs, staking, and DeFi activity.

How to Choose a Crypto Accounting Stack

A finance-team checklist for onchain revenue, treasury, payments, wallets, and month-end close.

How to Choose a Base Wallet

A wallet checklist for Base users and app teams.

Base Chain ID and RPC Context

Where Crypto.club sends users for Base chain ID, RPC, explorer, and setup details.

How to Choose a Stablecoin Payment Stack

A checklist for merchants, platforms, and finance teams evaluating stablecoin payment products.

What Is a Crypto RPC Provider?

A plain-English explanation of RPC providers for wallets, apps, dashboards, and indexers.

What Is Base RPC?

How Base RPC endpoints connect apps to Base chain data and transactions.

Best Base RPC for Small Apps

What a small Base app should check before choosing a free or low-cost RPC plan.

Base RPC Provider vs Public Endpoint

When to use the public Base endpoint and when to compare managed RPC providers.

What Is an Archive Node?

Why archive access matters for historical balances, traces, DeFi analytics, and tax work.

WebSocket RPC vs HTTP RPC

How to choose between HTTP and WebSocket RPC for crypto apps.

How to Compare RPC Pricing

A simple way to compare RPC pricing models across credits, units, requests, and bursts.

What Is RPC Rate Limiting?

How RPC rate limits affect wallets, trading apps, games, and indexers.

What Is a Wallet SDK?

How wallet SDKs help apps add connection, signing, account, and recovery flows.

Embedded Wallet vs External Wallet

How teams should compare embedded wallet flows with external self-custody wallets.

What Is a Smart Wallet?

A short guide to smart wallets, account abstraction, passkeys, batching, and recovery.

What Is WalletConnect Used For?

Where WalletConnect fits in app-to-wallet connection flows.

What Is a Crypto Payment Processor?

How crypto and stablecoin payment processors help with checkout, invoices, payouts, and settlement.

Stablecoin Payments vs Card Payments

What teams should compare before adding stablecoin checkout or payouts.

Stablecoin Invoices for SaaS

A SaaS checklist for stablecoin invoices, renewals, refunds, and finance exports.

Stablecoin Payouts for Contractors

How to evaluate stablecoin payout operations for contractors and global teams.

What Is Crypto Tax Software?

How crypto tax software imports, classifies, and exports wallet and exchange activity.

Crypto Tax Software vs Crypto Accounting

Why individual tax tools and company accounting platforms solve different problems.

How to Fix Missing Cost Basis

A careful checklist for missing cost basis in crypto tax and accounting tools.

How to Review DeFi Tax Imports

A DeFi import checklist for swaps, bridges, liquidity, staking, NFTs, and rewards.

What Is Wallet Reconciliation?

How finance teams reconcile crypto wallets, exchanges, and accounting exports.

What Is a Crypto Treasury Policy?

What finance and operations teams should define before holding crypto assets.

Crypto Accounting for Month-End Close

A month-end close checklist for crypto finance teams.

What Is a Crypto Bridge?

A basic explanation of crypto bridges and bridge-risk diligence.

How to Choose a Base Bridge

What Base users should verify before bridging assets to or from Base.

What Is a Block Explorer?

How block explorers help users inspect addresses, transactions, contracts, and token activity.

Basescan vs Blockscout

How to think about Basescan and Blockscout when inspecting Base activity.

What Is Crypto Analytics Software?

How crypto analytics tools support dashboards, token research, ecosystem monitoring, and investigations.

Dune vs DefiLlama

How to compare query-first dashboards with curated DeFi metrics.

What Is a Crypto Data API?

How crypto data APIs differ from RPC endpoints, explorers, and analytics dashboards.

What Is a Crypto Compliance Tool?

A buyer-oriented explanation of screening, monitoring, policies, and compliance evidence.

Wallet Screening vs Transaction Monitoring

How compliance buyers should separate one-time wallet checks from ongoing monitoring.