Level 1 · Crypto Foundations
How money works, where Bitcoin came from, how Bitcoin and blockchains work, and how to check claims for yourself, ending with your first blockchain investigation.
OPEN COURSE →A structured education journey from money and Bitcoin fundamentals through blockchain infrastructure, DeFi, market analysis and crypto trading.
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How money works, where Bitcoin came from, how Bitcoin and blockchains work, and how to check claims for yourself, ending with your first blockchain investigation.
OPEN COURSE →Wallets, keys and seed phrases; how a transaction moves from the mempool to finality; Bitcoin, Ethereum, layer 2 networks, bridges and oracles; and a closing infrastructure investigation.
VIEW COURSE →Classifying crypto assets, from bitcoin to stablecoins and governance tokens, and reading supply, emissions, unlocks, market capitalisation and token distribution. You finish with a tokenomics research project.
VIEW COURSE →How exchanges work, from KYC and rand deposits to order books, order types, fees and withdrawals to your own wallet. The last lesson is a simulated purchase and withdrawal.
VIEW COURSE →Security as a system: protecting seed phrases, accounts and devices, and recognising phishing, fake exchanges, support scams, wallet drainers, rug pulls and contract exploits, ending with a security challenge.
VIEW COURSE →What DeFi is and how its parts work: exchanges, automated market makers, liquidity pools, lending, collateral, liquidations and staking, with their costs and risks, ending with a DeFi risk investigation.
VIEW COURSE →How crypto markets work: participants, liquidity, order books, volume, volatility, dominance and breadth, market cycles and the behaviour behind them, with a case study of one past cycle.
VIEW COURSE →How to research a crypto project: its product, team, governance, adoption, revenue, treasury and tokenomics, and what on-chain data can and cannot show. You then write a complete research report.
VIEW COURSE →Reading charts and their limits: candlesticks, volume, support and resistance, trends, structure, chart patterns and indicators such as moving averages and RSI, ending with a complete technical analysis exercise.
VIEW COURSE →Trading versus investing; spot, margin and futures; orders, position sizing and risk per trade; strategy types, psychology and journals. You finish by writing your own trading plan.
VIEW COURSE →Advanced market structure, order blocks, fair value gaps and volume profile; futures mechanics, open interest, funding and liquidations; and backtesting, risk management and strategy development.
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