Blockchain & Crypto Education

Crypto Academy

Learn crypto and blockchain for free — 33 lessons and 80 glossary terms. No hype, no signals. Just the mechanics, the costs, and the mistakes that actually cost people money.

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3Learning tracks
80Glossary terms
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Crypto Starter

11 lessons · 63 min total · Beginner

Everything you need before you touch a wallet. Start here if crypto still feels like a foreign language.

1 Crypto Basics: Blocks, Fees, and Why Prices Move 5 min 2 Setting Up a Web3 Wallet Safely 6 min 3 What a Wallet Actually Stores — Addresses, Keys and Why It Matters 5 min 4 Seed Backup Before You Trade: A Practical Routine 5 min 5 What Is an Airdrop (and How Farming Works) 8 min 6 How to Avoid Crypto Scams 7 min 7 Stablecoins: What They Are and How They Break 7 min 8 How to Read a Crypto Exchange's Order Book 5 min 9 Spot vs Derivatives: Choosing Your First Market 5 min 10 What a Token Unlock Schedule Is and Why It Matters 5 min 11 Reading a Project's Team and Treasury Wallets 5 min

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Beginner

12 lessons
Crypto Basics: Blocks, Fees, and Why Prices Move 🕐 5 min read → Setting Up a Web3 Wallet Safely 🕐 6 min read → What Is an Airdrop (and How Farming Works) 🕐 8 min read → How to Avoid Crypto Scams 🕐 7 min read → Stablecoins: What They Are and How They Break 🕐 7 min read → Introduction to Impermanent Loss 🕐 7 min read → What a Wallet Actually Stores — Addresses, Keys and Why It Matters 🕐 5 min read → Seed Backup Before You Trade: A Practical Routine 🕐 5 min read → How to Read a Crypto Exchange's Order Book 🕐 5 min read → Spot vs Derivatives: Choosing Your First Market 🕐 5 min read → What a Token Unlock Schedule Is and Why It Matters 🕐 5 min read → Reading a Project's Team and Treasury Wallets 🕐 5 min read →

Intermediate

12 lessons
Farming L2 Airdrops Without Wasting Gas 🕐 10 min read → How to Do Your Own Research (DYOR) on a Token 🕐 8 min read → Cross-Chain Bridges and Their Risks 🕐 9 min read → Gas Fees: Why They Spike and How to Pay Less 🕐 7 min read → Staking vs Yield Farming: The Difference 🕐 8 min read → Reading a Crypto Chart: Candlesticks Explained 🕐 9 min read → Layer 2 Fees Compared: Optimistic vs ZK Rollups in Practice 🕐 7 min read → How Liquidity Pools Price Assets Without an Order Book 🕐 7 min read → Yield Farming Risk: Where the Yield Comes From 🕐 7 min read → Restaking and Its Risk Surface 🕐 6 min read → Perpetual Funding Rates and Basis Trades 🕐 6 min read → Reading On-Chain Activity Without Fooling Yourself 🕐 6 min read →

Advanced

9 lessons
Understanding Supertrend (95, 5) and Multi-Indicator Setups 🕐 12 min read → How Mempool Transactions Work and Where MEV Comes From 🕐 9 min read → Options Greeks: Delta, Theta, Vega and Implied Volatility Explained 🕐 10 min read → Liquidation Mechanics: Health Factors, Maintenance Margins and Liquidations 🕐 9 min read → Concentrated Liquidity: Choosing a Price Range That Survives Volatility 🕐 10 min read → Decentralised Perpetuals: Funding, Oracle Prices and Counterparty Exposure 🕐 10 min read → How to Build a Structured Crypto Strategy With Position Sizing and Risk Units 🕐 10 min read → Reading Token Unlock Schedules and Vesting Cliffs for Supply Pressure 🕐 9 min read → Oracle Price Manipulation and How DeFi Protocols Get Prices Wrong 🕐 10 min read →

Crypto glossary

All 80 terms →

Plain-English definitions for the words that get thrown around without explanation.

Airdrop Free tokens distributed to wallet addresses, usually to reward early users of a protocol. AMM Automated Market Maker — a protocol that prices assets with a formula instead of an order book. APR vs APY APR is the yearly rate without compounding; APY includes compounding and is always higher. ATH All-Time High — the highest price an asset has ever traded at. Bear Market A prolonged decline, conventionally 20% or more from recent highs. Bull Market A prolonged rise driven by new demand, easy credit and rising confidence. Block Explorer A site for viewing every transaction, wallet and contract on a blockchain. Bridge A protocol that moves assets from one blockchain to another. CEX Centralized Exchange — a company like Binance or Bybit that holds user funds and matches trades. Cold Wallet A hardware wallet that keeps private keys offline, never touching the internet. DEX Decentralized Exchange — trading directly from your wallet against smart contracts, no custodian. DeFi Decentralized Finance — lending, trading and earning rebuilt on smart contracts without banks.