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What Entiende Cripto is and why it exists
“La serie donde analizo una por una las 100 criptomonedas más importantes del mercado. Sin filtros. Sin humo.” (“The series where I analyze the 100 most important cryptocurrencies on the market, one by one. No filters. No hype.”)
The series kicked off on April 27, 2026 with Bitcoin and reached EP.14, Tether, on June 16. Since then the episodes have dropped the numbers but kept the “Qué es…” (What is…) format: Dogecoin, Shiba Inu, Polygon, Arbitrum, TRON, HYPE (Hyperliquid), Monero and, on October 10, Quant. Twenty-two coins out of the hundred promised, as of October 2026.
22
episodes published as of October 2026, out of 100 planned
4 h
of video in total, roughly: about 11 minutes per episode
17,392
combined views as of October 17, 2026
3,592
views for the most watched, EP.10 on Cardano
The idea is simple, and rare in this corner of the internet: explain what each crypto is before talking about its price. First the problem it claims to solve and how it works; then the risks, with no sugar-coating; and finally the scenarios. If you're just starting out, EP.01 is the way in.
Chapters (10)
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How an episode is put together
Go through the chapters of the fourteen numbered episodes and the same skeleton shows up almost every time. Knowing it saves you time, because you can jump straight to the part you care about.
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The hook
A contradiction to open with, often right in the title: “la cripto de Google, IBM y Boeing que NO consigue subir de precio” (the crypto of Google, IBM and Boeing that can't get its price up); “la cripto que eligieron Toyota, FIFA y Wall Street (y cayó un 64%)” (the one Toyota, FIFA and Wall Street chose, and it fell 64%); “la cripto que no debería existir y sin embargo domina el mercado” (the crypto that shouldn't exist and yet dominates the market).
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The problem
Which flaw it claims to fix: smart contracts that can't see data from the outside world (Chainlink), an outdated international payments system (XRP), graphics power nobody is using (Render).
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Origins and mechanics
Who created it and how it really works: Hoskinson and Cardano, “Sergey Nazarov y los 10 años con SWIFT” (Sergey Nazarov and the 10 years with SWIFT) for Chainlink, “La pelea de Jed McCaleb con Ripple” (Jed McCaleb's fight with Ripple) for Stellar.
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Catalysts
What could move it: institutional deals, network upgrades, ETFs or real adoption. It's the most optimistic part, so watch it with your filter on.
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The B-side
The risk chapter gets a new name in every episode, and on YouTube it's in Spanish: “Los riesgos reales (sin endulzar)” (the real risks, no sugar-coating), “La cara B que nadie te cuenta” (the B-side nobody tells you about), “El elefante de la centralización” (the centralization elephant), “La cara oscura que casi nadie te cuenta” (the dark side almost nobody tells you about). It's the one you should watch most.
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How to buy in, and scenarios
How to buy without making the usual mistakes (with staking when it exists) and, at the end, my predictions. They're scenarios tied to a specific date, not promises: I keep stressing that it isn't financial advice.
The unnumbered episodes, from late June 2026 on, are shorter (about 9 minutes on average, versus almost 12 for the numbered ones) and cut straight to one specific question. In several of them it's the same one: why does a network that gets used so much have such a battered token? The Polygon episode frames it as “good network, bad token?” and the TRON one as “the paradox: so much money, a stagnant token.”
Chapters (9)
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The coins in the series at a glance
Basic facts checked against each network's official documentation and general sources, as of October 2026. The launch year refers to the network or to the token, as indicated.
The cryptocurrencies section brings together the Bitcoin guide and the videos on each coin. Below, group by group, I walk you through what each episode zeroes in on.
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Bitcoin, the store of value that opens the series
Bitcoin was born from a nine-page paper signed in 2008 by Satoshi Nakamoto. The network started on January 3, 2009 and runs on proof of work: miners spend energy solving a math problem, and whoever cracks it adds the next block. Issuance is fixed in advance: there will be 21 million at most, the reward is cut in half every 210,000 blocks (the halving), and more than 20 million have been issued since March 2026.
“A purely peer-to-peer version of electronic cash would allow online payments to be sent directly from one party to another without going through a financial institution.”
EP.01 is the longest in the series, almost 16 minutes, and the one most geared to beginners: the problem with the financial system, who created Bitcoin and why, how it really works, why it has value, the risks with no sugar-coating and how to get started step by step. If you'd rather read, the guide to what Bitcoin is walks through it calmly, and the one on Bitcoin cycles and the halving explains why its price moves in waves.
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Smart contract platforms: Ethereum, Solana, BNB, Cardano and Avalanche
Ethereum (2015) is the big shared computer: a blockchain where anyone can deploy programs, called smart contracts, that move money according to rules written in code. Vitalik Buterin described it in late 2013, and in September 2022 it dropped mining for proof of stake with The Merge, which cut its energy use by roughly 99.95%. EP.02 explains the problem it set out to solve, how it works and why it has value.
Solana (2020), founded by Anatoly Yakovenko and Raj Gokal, pairs proof of stake with Proof of History, a kind of cryptographic clock that orders transactions so the chain can go faster. EP.03's title calls it “la criptomoneda que casi muere” (the cryptocurrency that almost died), and with reason: after FTX collapsed in November 2022, SOL fell as much as 40% in a single day. The episode covers that crash, the comeback that followed and its risks.
BNB (2017) was born as the token for paying fees on Binance. It started out on Ethereum and today it's the gas and staking token of BNB Smart Chain, which as of October 2026 runs, according to its documentation, with 45 validators under a model called Proof of Staked Authority. EP.04 presents it as “la cripto que no debería existir” (the crypto that shouldn't exist): in November 2023 Binance pleaded guilty in the United States to violating anti-money-laundering and sanctions laws and agreed to pay $4.3 billion, and its founder, Changpeng Zhao, was sentenced to four months in prison, served them in 2024 and was pardoned in October 2025. Even so, the episode looks at why the market keeps betting on it.
Cardano (2017) was launched by Charles Hoskinson, one of Ethereum's co-founders, after he left that project. It uses a proof-of-stake protocol called Ouroboros, with a very academic approach, and it has on-chain governance: it started with the Chang upgrade in 2024 and was completed by the Plomin hard fork in January 2025, so ADA holders can propose changes and vote on them, directly or by delegating to representatives (DReps). EP.10, the most watched in the series, starts from a claim the video attributes to Hoskinson, made during a live broadcast: that ADA could rise a thousandfold. And it examines that claim, in the description's words, “without defending it and without attacking it.”
Avalanche (2020), from Ava Labs, reaches consensus through repeated voting: each node polls a small random sample of validators, weighted by how much they have staked, until the whole network converges. EP.11 starts from a contradiction: companies like Toyota and FIFA build on it, and yet AVAX had fallen 64% over the previous year.
Smart contracts, episode by episode
Qué es Ethereum y por qué va a cambiar el mundo
· 271 views
Qué es Solana: la criptomoneda que casi muere y hoy amenaza a Ethereum
· 895 views
Qué es BNB: la cripto que no debería existir y sin embargo domina el mercado
· 1,420 views
Qué es Avalanche: la cripto que eligieron Toyota, FIFA y Wall Street (y cayó un 64%)
· 1,000 views
Chapters (8)
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Infrastructure, oracles and real-world assets: Chainlink, Quant, Ondo, XRP, Stellar and Hedera
This group isn't competing to be “the next Ethereum.” They're plumbing: they bring data, payments or traditional assets onto the blockchain, which is why banks show up so often in their episodes.
Chainlink solves the oracle problem: a smart contract can't see on its own what happens outside its blockchain, whether that's a price, an interest rate or the outcome of an event. Its whitepaper dates from 2017, signed by Sergey Nazarov and Steve Ellis together with Cornell professor Ari Juels, and the network launched in 2019. LINK pays node operators and can be staked. EP.06 has chapters on “Sergey Nazarov y los 10 años con SWIFT” (Sergey Nazarov and the 10 years with SWIFT), on “the institutional avalanche nobody sees” and on “the 3 real criticisms you need to know.”
Quant (QNT) is the most corporate case in the series. Behind it is Quant Network, a British company incorporated in 2015 and run by its founder, Gilbert Verdian, which sells banks and financial institutions interoperability and programmable-money software: Overledger, Quant Flow and PayScript. QNT is an ERC-20 token on Ethereum, and in the episode, from October 10, 2026, I devote a whole chapter to its danger: the token trap almost nobody talks about. Before that I cover the man behind it, the problem it claims to solve and “Los 25 bancos y el Reino Unido” (the 25 banks and the United Kingdom).
Chapters (7)
Ondo Finance is pure tokenization: it offers tokens backed mainly by short-term US Treasuries (OUSG, USDY) and tokenized stocks and ETFs for investors outside the United States. The ONDO token is used to govern Ondo DAO and has been freely transferable since January 2024. EP.07 explains USDY, OUSG and Global Markets, a five-second transaction with JPMorgan and the project's three real risks.
XRP lives on the XRP Ledger, launched in 2012 by David Schwartz, Jed McCaleb and Arthur Britto. There's no mining: each node trusts a list of validators (the UNL), and the network closes a new ledger version every few seconds. All 100 billion XRP were created at once, and 80 billion of them went to Ripple. EP.05 tells the story of the war with the SEC: the lawsuit came in December 2020, a judge ruled in 2023 that the token itself is not a security (although certain sales to institutional buyers were), and in August 2025 both sides dropped their appeals.
Stellar (2014) was founded by Jed McCaleb, a Ripple co-founder, and Joyce Kim. It runs on the Stellar Consensus Protocol, designed by Stanford professor David Mazières, and is supported by a nonprofit foundation. EP.09 opens with McCaleb's fight with Ripple and focuses on real use cases and on why the price had been stuck for eight years.
Hedera (mainnet since 2019) isn't even a blockchain. It uses hashgraph, an algorithm by Leemon Baird in which nodes tell each other what they know (“gossip about gossip”) instead of chaining blocks together, and it's governed by a council of large organizations with equal votes and limited terms. EP.08 puts its finger on the sore spot: if giants like Google and IBM sit on that council (they still do as of October 2026), why doesn't the price move? And it devotes a chapter to “the elephant of centralization.”
Oracles, payments and real-world assets
Qué es Ondo Finance: la cripto que BlackRock y la Casa Blanca están construyendo en silencio
· 273 views
Qué es XRP: la guerra de 5 años contra el gobierno americano que lo cambió todo
· 180 views
Qué es Stellar: la cripto que acaba de SUBIR +30% por el acuerdo con DTCC y Wall Street
· 303 views
Qué es Hedera: la cripto de Google, IBM y Boeing que NO consigue subir de precio
· 196 views
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AI and stablecoins: Bittensor, Render and Tether
Bittensor (TAO) was introduced in March 2020, in a paper posted on arXiv, as a decentralized marketplace for artificial intelligence. Today it works through specialized subnets that produce digital services such as compute, AI inference or storage: miners do the work, validators score it, and a mechanism called Yuma Consensus hands out new coins based on those scores, weighted by each validator's stake. From Bitcoin it borrows the 21 million cap and the halvings. EP.12 calls it “el Bitcoin de la IA” (the Bitcoin of AI) and doesn't skip its dark side.
Render connects people with idle graphics cards to people who need computing power for rendering or AI. It was created by OTOY, Jules Urbach's company: the token dates from 2017 and the network opened to the public in 2020. In 2023 it moved from Ethereum to Solana, and it uses a burn-and-mint model in which the amount burned depends on how much the network is used. EP.13 explains it as the “Airbnb de las tarjetas gráficas” (the Airbnb of graphics cards) and analyzes its pivot to AI.
Tether (USDT, 2014) is a stablecoin: a token that aims to always be worth one dollar because its issuer says it holds equivalent reserves. EP.14 goes straight to the uncomfortable question of what's really behind those reserves, and there's precedent: in 2021 the US CFTC fined Tether $41 million because between 2016 and 2018 it held enough reserves on only 27.6% of the days examined. A note for readers in Spain or elsewhere in the EU: under MiCA, a stablecoin pegged to a single currency is an e-money token, and in the EU only credit institutions or e-money institutions can offer one to the public, as the European supervisors' factsheet points out.
AI and stablecoins
Qué es Bittensor (TAO): el Bitcoin de la Inteligencia Artificial que está a punto de explotar
· 1,225 views
Qué es Render el 'Airbnb de las tarjetas gráficas' que la IA está disparando
· 778 views
Qué es Tether (USDT): la cripto que usas cada día sin saber lo que esconde
· 212 views
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Memecoins: Dogecoin and Shiba Inu
The European supervisors define memecoins as crypto-assets named after trends or humorous topics, usually created to engage a community, which can be used for peer-to-peer payments, speculative investing or trading. Both coins in the series fit that description perfectly.
Dogecoin was born on December 6, 2013 as a joke by two engineers, Billy Markus and Jackson Palmer, poking fun at crypto speculation. It uses proof of work (Scrypt), produces one block per minute and has no supply cap: since 2015, about 5 billion new DOGE have been added every year. Its episode covers the Elon Musk effect, the hidden flaw almost nobody talks about and both sides of the debate: scam or jackpot.
Shiba Inu (SHIB) appeared in August 2020, launched by an anonymous creator who went by “Ryoshi,” as an Ethereum token with a supply of almost one quadrillion units. In May 2021, Vitalik Buterin, who had been gifted part of those tokens, donated more than 50 trillion SHIB to a COVID relief fund in India. The episode talks about the millionaires it created, an “impossible math problem” tied to that gigantic supply, and Shibarium, its attempt to become something serious.
The two memecoins in the series
Qué es Dogecoin: ¿la mayor estafa o el mayor pelotazo de la historia cripto?
· 728 views
Qué es Shiba Inu: la cripto sin creador, sin utilidad y sin sentido... que lo está petando
· 187 views
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Scaling, DeFi and payments: Polygon, Arbitrum, TRON and Hyperliquid
The last group shares a question the episodes keep coming back to: can a network do really well while its token does really badly? Polygon, Arbitrum and TRON are used heavily and, according to the videos themselves, their tokens aren't keeping up: when the episodes were recorded, POL was 95% below its high, ARB more than 90% below, and TRX, in the episode's words, just won't take off. Hyperliquid is the opposite case.
Polygon started in 2017 as Matic Network, founded by Jaynti Kanani, Sandeep Nailwal, Anurag Arjun and Mihailo Bjelic, and its mainnet has been running since 2020. It's an Ethereum-compatible chain that processes transactions on its own and periodically records checkpoints on Ethereum. Its token, POL, replaced MATIC in a 1:1 migration and is used to pay fees and for staking. The episode untangles the MATIC-to-POL mess, lays out the unvarnished numbers and covers its bet on becoming a payments network.
Arbitrum One opened to the public on August 31, 2021. It's an optimistic-rollup layer 2 on Ethereum: it executes transactions off-chain, posts the compressed data to Ethereum and treats the result as valid unless someone proves it's wrong. The ARB token, partly distributed through an airdrop in March 2023, is used to vote in the DAO. The episode covers the token's big problem and what's being built on top, with Robinhood and MetaMask as examples.
TRON was founded by Justin Sun in 2017; it started as an Ethereum token and moved to its own chain in 2018. It runs on delegated proof of stake: stakers vote, and the 27 candidates with the most votes, the Super Representatives, produce the blocks. According to the episode, it moves more than $80 billion in stablecoins, and it's also one of the most controversial networks: in March 2023 the SEC sued Sun and three of his companies, including the Tron Foundation, and the case closed in March 2026 with a consent judgment that orders one of them, Rainberry, to pay $10 million. The video tells its story, the paradox of its token and its dark side.
Hyperliquid is its own layer 1, with a consensus mechanism called HyperBFT and an order book for perpetual futures and spot trading that runs entirely on-chain; on top of it sits HyperEVM for smart contracts. Its token, HYPE, launched on November 29, 2024, and the genesis block spread it across more than 94,000 addresses; according to its documentation, development has been fully self-funded, with no VCs or outside capital. The episode, the second most watched in the series, focuses on something rare in crypto: how the protocol actually makes money and how part of that money reaches token holders. And, as the format demands, it devotes a chapter to its danger.
Scaling, DeFi and payments, episode by episode
Qué es Polygon (POL): ¿el gigante caído que va a explotar o una trampa? (análisis 2026)
· 885 views
Qué es Arbitrum (ARB): ¿explota o muere la nº1 de Ethereum? (análisis 2026)
· 702 views
Qué es TRON (TRX): el imperio cripto más polémico
· 372 views
Qué es HYPE (Hyperliquid): la criptomoneda que TODOS miran en 2026
· 2,729 views
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Privacy: Monero and the EU's 2027 rule
Monero (XMR) launched on April 18, 2014, built on the CryptoNote protocol. It was originally called Bitmonero, and it was the community that decided to split from the original maintainer and take over the project: today it's open-source software maintained by volunteers, with no company behind it. Unlike Bitcoin, where anyone can follow coins moving on the chain, on Monero every transaction is private by mandate: ring signatures hide the sender, RingCT hides the amount and stealth addresses protect the recipient, as its official documentation explains.
It's mined with RandomX, an algorithm designed for ordinary computers that it adopted in November 2019, and it has no supply cap: the block reward stays at 0.6 XMR forever, an inflation rate of about 1% at first that trends toward zero over the years. Its big battlefront is regulation. The EU's anti-money laundering regulation bars banks, financial institutions and crypto-asset service providers from keeping accounts that allow transactions to be obscured, including through anonymity-enhancing coins, and it applies from July 10, 2027. Binance had already delisted it in February 2024.
In the episode, from October 3, 2026, I explain without jargon why Bitcoin isn't anonymous, how Monero works, its movie-worthy origin, its dark side, the attack that nearly sank it in 2025 and whether it's legal to hold in Spain. One practical detail: OKX, the exchange I use, doesn't list Monero.
Chapters (7)
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How to get the most out of the series
Twenty-two episodes add up to about four hours of video. You don't need to watch them all, or in order. Three routes that work:
- If you're starting from zero: EP.01 (Bitcoin), EP.02 (Ethereum) and EP.14 (Tether). Those three cover digital money, smart contracts and the stablecoins you'll use to move from one crypto to another.
- If tokenization is your thing: EP.06 (Chainlink), EP.07 (Ondo), EP.05 (XRP), EP.09 (Stellar) and Quant.
- If you have a taste for high risk: Bittensor, Render, Hyperliquid, Monero and the memecoins, always starting with their risk chapters.
Two warnings so you don't get burned. The predictions at the end are my scenarios, tied to the date of the video; don't turn them into a buy order. And an episode explains a coin; it doesn't tell you how much to put in. For that there's the guide on how to start in crypto, the one on exchanges and MiCA for buying on a platform licensed in the EU, the one on crypto scams and, if you're moving what you buy off the exchange, the security section.
If you want to compare coins against each other, my rankings are under best and worst cryptos. And if the series is useful to you, subscribe to the channel: the goal is a hundred coins, and twenty-two are done.