Etherscan is amazing. 

Here are few tips to take full advantage of Etherscan:

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a) Tracking Transaction Status 

Live tracking helps you validate a transaction's authenticity. You are assured of settlement from one address to another. 

You can also validate sender and receiver addresses on Etherscan

2/ Understand on-chain metrics of your favourite ERC-20 tokens. 

All ERC-20 tokens have a unique smart contract address. 
 
On the contract address page on Etherscan, you can see: 
- Price
- Fully diluted market cap
- Max total supply
- Holders

4/ Some other interesting charts are Daily active ERC-20 addresses, D, ERC-721 (NFTs) Tracker

https://etherscan.io/chart/erc20-active-address
https://etherscan.io/tokens-nft?sort=7d&order=desc

5/ You can also now Google any Ethereum address and see the balance, made possible by Etherscan   https://i.imgur.com/TsGgN3Q.jpg

Originally posted here:
https://twitter.com/JunoFinanceHQ/status/1595420401752215552

3/ Etherscan also gives you a macro picture of how the Ethereum network performs over time

Here is a chart of Daily active addresses on Ethereum; this includes Ethereum's on-chain and on and off-ramp transactions (from CEX to MetaMask or vice-versa)

https://etherscan.io/chart/active-address