Before you add anything new, count what you already hold
How to Count Crypto, Cash and Stocks Across All Your Accounts
If you follow new projects closely, you probably have more accounts than you'd like to admit. Each launch you got into, each exchange that listed something first, each wallet you set up for one airdrop. It adds up.
After a year or two, the honest answer to "what do you hold?" is often "let me check five apps". And by the time you've checked, you've usually opened a new tab to read about something else.
Andrei, an example we've made up but one plenty of readers will recognise, had three exchanges and two wallets. Plus a bank account and a broker app. One weekend he set himself a rule: no new research until he'd counted what he already had.
It sounds obvious. It isn't how most people work. When you're watching what's new, your attention points forward, to the next listing or the next announcement. The position you already hold just sits there, split across five platforms, each showing its own balance and none of them showing how it relates to the rest.
He went through them one at a time, writing each holding down before opening the next.
On the second exchange, tucked away at the bottom of the account, was a small balance of a token he'd received in an airdrop more than a year earlier. He'd forgotten it existed. It wasn't worth much, but it rattled him a little. If he'd missed that, what else was he wrong about?
That's the uncomfortable part of counting. You go in expecting to confirm what you know and come out with corrections. Besides the forgotten token, one exchange held more than he'd assumed and one wallet held less. Nothing dramatic, but together it meant the picture he'd been deciding from was a little off.
By Sunday evening the count was done: coins from five places, the bank savings and the stocks, all in one list and one currency. It didn't tell him what to do next, and it wasn't supposed to. What it did was give every new idea in his notes something real to be measured against.
He noticed something about his own habits, too. Most of what he'd bought in the past year was small amounts in lots of different projects. Spread over five platforms, each one looked insignificant. Added up, they were a bigger share of his money than he'd have said. Nothing wrong with that, but worth knowing before adding the next one.
He used the Portfolio tool on TOKERO, a social network about money. Listed coins and shares get their prices automatically, and anything without a market price you value yourself. The result is one chart with the biggest holdings first, which is a sobering thing to look at before buying more of anything.
Visitors only see percentages unless you choose to show amounts. The tool doesn't move money, list projects or make predictions. The free plan tracks up to 20 assets across crypto, cash and stocks/ETFs; paid plans raise the limit and add categories. It's not a place to find the next token.
One tip if you try it: write each holding down before you open the next platform. Jumping between tabs is how things get counted twice, or not at all.
The next announcement will still be there next week. Count first.
Octavia Mateescu is a software developer at TOKERO, where she builds the tools creators use to publish and share their work across networks.
Summary for the listing: People who follow new crypto projects often hold coins across many platforms with no total. Counting them first shows where you stand before adding more.
