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193 guides on dapp basics, newest first.
dApp basics · Explainer
A dApp discovery widget can help you find decentralized apps, but its rankings are snapshots, not endorsements. This guide explains what these widgets show, how to read their data, and the checks to run before you connect a wallet.
dApp basics · How-to
A dApp is a web app that runs on a blockchain instead of a company's server, so you use it with a crypto wallet rather than a username and password. This guide shows the steps for connecting a wallet, reading each prompt and approving an action safely.
dApp basics · Explainer
International Women's Day is a useful moment to look at who shapes decentralized apps, but the public record on women in this field is scattered. This guide explains which roles carry real influence, how to check a claim about someone's work, and where to look for verified information in 2026.
dApp basics · Explainer
The metaverse hype of the early 2020s has faded, but the underlying ideas of shared 3D spaces, digital ownership and virtual economies have not gone away. This guide explains what the term means, why it keeps returning, and how to judge projects before you commit time or money.
dApp basics · Review
Isotile is a small, cute virtual room, but the sources available for this guide do not confirm its features, team, chain or costs. This review explains what can and cannot be verified and gives a checklist for judging any cute metaverse space before you connect a wallet or spend money.
dApp basics · Explainer
A jump of more than 1000% in 30-day transaction volume sounds dramatic, but the percentage alone says little about whether a swap venue is healthy. This guide explains where volume figures come from, what usually drives a spike, and how to check a claim like the one made about JulSwap.
dApp basics · How-to
A dApp landing page has to explain what the product does, what a visitor should do next, and what risks come with using it. This guide covers how developers can plan, write, build, secure and measure that page without relying on hype.
dApp basics · Explainer
Lunar Strategy is a crypto and NFT marketing agency whose leadership has been vocal about how brands can use NFTs and community-led promotion. This explainer covers what that approach involves, what happened to NFT marketing after its 2021 to 2022 peak, and how to judge the strategies that remain useful in 2026.
dApp basics · Explainer
In 2021 Microsoft outlined how its Mesh technology, Teams and Office apps could work inside a 3D, mixed-reality workplace. This explainer covers what was announced, what was promised for later, and how to check the current status of those features.
dApp basics · Explainer
The Million Dollar Homepage was a 2005 pixel-ad page that many people later linked to metaverse hype. This guide explains what it was, what metaverse tokens are, and how to check any metaverse token before you buy.
dApp basics · Explainer
Mirror World proposed an open asset delivery network aimed at lowering the cost of trading and exchanging assets across blockchains. This guide explains what that kind of proposal means, how to tell it apart from similarly named projects, and how to check whether it has moved past the idea stage.
dApp basics · Explainer
Multichain dApp discovery is the work of finding useful decentralized apps across many blockchains at once. This guide explains how it works, how to read usage data without being misled, and how to check an app before you connect a wallet.
dApp basics · Explainer
OpenOcean is a multi-chain DEX aggregator that routes token swaps across many exchanges, and Polygon is one of the networks it serves. This guide explains what a Polygon launch means for swappers, how to trade there safely, and where to check current details.
dApp basics · Explainer
PayPal is one of the most widely used ways to pay online, and its buyer protection is genuinely useful. Its account holds, seller fees and gaps in coverage are worth understanding before you rely on it.
dApp basics · Explainer
Polylion is a name readers have been searching alongside the Polygon network, but this guide cannot verify its current status from the sources available to it. Here is what is stable about Polygon, and a practical method for checking any new project before you connect a wallet or buy its token.
dApp basics · Explainer
Protocol Labs builds the open-source networking and storage protocols behind IPFS and Filecoin. This guide explains how those pieces fit together, what each one does, and what to check before relying on them.
dApp basics · Explainer
Public reporting did not contain an announcement for Radar's second anniversary quests, so this guide explains what can be confirmed, how to check official channels, and how to join any campaign safely.
dApp basics · Explainer
The RADAR token community vote asks holders to weigh in on how the token and its staking program should evolve across multiple blockchains. This guide explains the two proposals in plain terms, how staking works, and what to check before taking part.
dApp basics · Explainer
Radar's contribute-to-earn model paid users in its RADAR token for adding useful input to a dApp-tracking platform. This guide explains how that kind of program works, what it offered businesses and dApp communities, and what the November 2025 shutdown reports mean for anyone who took part.
dApp basics · Explainer
Public reporting supplied for this topic are weather radar pages for US cities, not a crypto product. This guide explains what they do and do not show, and how to check safely whether a crypto project called Radar has launched.
dApp basics · Explainer
Radar, Layer3 and Dework all connect people with paid tasks, but they serve different needs and public reporting do not confirm what Radar's bounty and voting product currently does. This guide explains each model, shows what to verify, and gives a checklist for choosing safely.
dApp basics · Explainer
ROFL is Oasis Protocol's framework for running heavy application logic offchain inside secure enclaves while keeping the results verifiable onchain. This guide explains how the pieces fit, what the 2025 mainnet launch changed, and what trust you still need to place in the hardware and code.
dApp basics · Explainer
A brand launch inside a virtual world is easy to misread as a product that exists in that world. This guide explains what the Samsung Galaxy S22 Decentraland event was, how Decentraland works, and how to check whether a similar virtual event is live, archived or over.
dApp basics · Explainer
Secretum is positioned as a way to protect data in Solana messaging and trading. This guide explains the privacy problem on public blockchains, how privacy tools on Solana work at a high level, and how to judge any such tool before you rely on it.