Learn Crypto
Plain-English explainers on crypto, blockchain and trading, for total beginners through experienced traders. No sign-up, no jargon left unexplained.
Most crypto writing is either a press release or a thread trying to sell you something. These are neither. Each article takes one idea — what a blockchain actually is, why funding rates exist, what happens mechanically when a position gets liquidated — and explains it the way you would explain it to a friend who is smart but new. Where something is genuinely risky, we say so plainly rather than burying it in a disclaimer.
Read them in any order. If you would rather be pointed somewhere, the learning paths below sequence them toward a specific goal, and the glossary is there for any term that turns up before you have met it.
Not sure where to start? Follow a step-by-step learning path toward a goal like options, perps or reading charts. Browse paths →What Is Cryptocurrency? A Beginner's Guide
The basics of digital money that isn't controlled by any bank or government, explained without the jargon.
Read the guide · 5 min read →Blockchain & Wallet Fundamentals
What Is Blockchain and How Does It Work?
How transactions get bundled into blocks, confirmed by the network, and made effectively tamper-proof.
Read the guide · 5 min read →Crypto Wallets Explained
Hot vs cold, custodial vs non-custodial, and how to think about where to actually keep your crypto.
Read the guide · 5 min read →Private Keys and Seed Phrases
What they actually are, and the practical do's and don'ts for keeping yours safe from scams and mistakes.
Read the guide · 5 min read →Layer 1 vs Layer 2: What's the Difference?
Why L2s like Arbitrum and Base exist, and how they inherit their security from Ethereum.
Read the guide · 4 min read →Ethereum, Solana, Bitcoin and the Rest
A clear-eyed tour of the major blockchains and how to actually think about picking one.
Read the guide · 6 min read →Blockchain Infrastructure
What Are Rollups? Optimistic vs ZK Explained
How rollups bundle transactions off-chain and post them to the L1, and the real mechanical difference between optimistic and zk designs.
Read the guide · 5 min read →What Is Account Abstraction? Smart Wallets
Account abstraction turns your wallet into a smart contract, enabling social recovery, gas sponsorship, and batched transactions instead of a simple key pair.
Read the guide · 5 min read →Blockchain Bridges Explained: Why They're Risky
How blockchain bridges let you move assets between chains, why wrapped tokens carry extra risk, and what to check before you bridge.
Read the guide · 6 min read →Modular Blockchains Explained
How modular blockchains split execution, settlement, data availability and consensus across separate specialized layers.
Read the guide · 6 min read →Consensus, Fees & DeFi
Proof of Work vs Proof of Stake
How Bitcoin and Ethereum secure their networks differently, explained without the engineering jargon.
Read the guide · 5 min read →What Is Gas and Why Do Fees Exist?
Why transaction costs fluctuate, and why you always need a bit of the native token in your wallet.
Read the guide · 5 min read →What Is DeFi? Decentralized Finance Explained
Lending, trading and earning yield without a bank, and the real risks behind the appeal.
Read the guide · 6 min read →What Are Stablecoins?
How coins pegged to the dollar actually hold their value, and what "depegging" means.
Read the guide · 5 min read →DeFi Mechanics
What Is Impermanent Loss and How to Avoid It
Impermanent loss explained with a worked example: what causes it, why it's called impermanent, and how to weigh it against LP fees.
Read the guide · 5 min read →What Is a Flash Loan?
A flash loan lets you borrow huge sums with no collateral, as long as you repay it within the same transaction, or the loan never happened.
Read the guide · 5 min read →Lending and Borrowing in DeFi Explained
How DeFi lending pools work, why loans require overcollateralization, how liquidation protects lenders, and why borrowers use it anyway.
Read the guide · 5 min read →What Is MEV (Maximal Extractable Value)?
MEV is profit bots extract by controlling transaction order in a block, from mempool front-running to arbitrage. Here's how it works.
Read the guide · 5 min read →How to Swap on a DEX, Step by Step
What actually happens when you swap, why slippage and token approvals matter, and a pre-swap safety checklist.
Read the guide · 6 min read →Spot Trading Basics
How to Buy Your First Crypto Safely
A step-by-step walkthrough from choosing an exchange to avoiding the most common beginner mistakes.
Read the guide · 5 min read →Order Types Explained
Market, limit and stop orders, and a practical framework for which one to use when.
Read the guide · 5 min read →How to Read a Candlestick Chart
What open, high, low and close actually mean, and how to read basic patterns without overreading them.
Read the guide · 5 min read →Market Cap vs Fully Diluted Valuation
Why a "cheap looking" token can be far more expensive once you account for future supply unlocks.
Read the guide · 5 min read →Technical Analysis Basics: Support and Resistance
What technical analysis actually is, how support and resistance form, why broken levels flip roles, and a grounded look at trend lines and volume.
Read the guide · 5 min read →Common Chart Patterns Explained
Head and shoulders, double tops, triangles and flags explained, including why patterns fail and how to trade them responsibly.
Read the guide · 6 min read →Indicators 101: Moving Averages & RSI
SMA vs EMA, moving average crossovers, RSI and RSI divergence, and the biggest mistake beginners make: using indicators alone.
Read the guide · 6 min read →Trading & Reference
What Are Perpetual Futures?
How perps trading actually works: leverage, funding rates and liquidation, explained from zero.
Read the guide · 6 min read →Crypto & Trading Glossary
Over 100 terms explained in plain English, grouped by topic, from blockchain basics to DeFi.
Read the guide · Reference →Perps & Risk Management
Long vs Short: How Directional Trading Works
The full mechanics of betting on a price rise versus a fall, and why shorting carries different risk.
Read the guide · 5 min read →Leverage and Margin Explained
Isolated vs cross margin, and how much room high leverage actually leaves you before liquidation.
Read the guide · 6 min read →How Liquidation Actually Works
Why forced closes happen, how liquidation cascades form, and practical ways to manage the risk.
Read the guide · 5 min read →Risk Management and Position Sizing
How to size trades using a risk-per-trade framework, why it matters more than being right, and how it changes with leverage.
Read the guide · 5 min read →Options & Staking
What Are Crypto Options?
Calls and puts explained from zero, and why the risk profile is fundamentally different from perps.
Read the guide · 6 min read →Options Greeks for Beginners
Delta, Gamma, Theta and Vega, and why you can be "right" on direction and still lose money.
Read the guide · 6 min read →Spot vs Perps vs Options
A practical comparison to help you decide which one actually fits what you're trying to do.
Read the guide · 6 min read →What Is Staking and How Does It Work?
Validator vs delegated staking, and the risks beginners tend to miss: slashing and lock-up periods.
Read the guide · 5 min read →Liquid Staking and Restaking, Explained
How locked capital gets freed up and reused, and why the extra yield compensates for extra risk.
Read the guide · 6 min read →Implied Volatility Explained
What IV actually measures, how it differs from historical volatility, and why an option's price is a bet on volatility as much as direction.
Read the guide · 6 min read →Basic Options Strategies: Covered Calls & Spreads
The payoff logic behind covered calls, cash-secured puts and vertical spreads, and when each one actually fits your view.
Read the guide · 7 min read →Advanced & On-Chain
What Is a DAO?
Token-based governance explained honestly, including why "decentralized" doesn't always mean well-governed.
Read the guide · 5 min read →What Are NFTs, Really?
What non-fungible actually means, what the boom and bust taught us, and the use cases that survived it.
Read the guide · 5 min read →On-Chain Analysis 101
What whale wallets and exchange flows actually tell you, and where those signals fall apart.
Read the guide · 7 min read →Tokenomics Explained
Allocation, vesting and unlock schedules, and how to read a token's incentive design before you buy.
Read the guide · 7 min read →What Is a Prediction Market?
What a prediction market is, how share prices show implied probability, why crypto fits it well, and the risks to know first.
Read the guide · 5 min read →How Macro Economics Affects Crypto Markets
How interest rates, dollar strength and market liquidity increasingly move crypto prices, and why the "uncorrelated asset" story is fading.
Read the guide · 6 min read →Market Cycles & Safety
Market Cycles Explained
Halvings, bull and bear markets, and why cycle patterns are context, not a trading system.
Read the guide · 7 min read →What Is RWA Tokenization?
Real-world assets on-chain, and the counterparty trust it reintroduces that crypto usually avoids.
Read the guide · 6 min read →Common Crypto Scams and How to Avoid Them
Phishing, rug pulls, fake giveaways and pig butchering scams, and the habits that defend against all of them.
Read the guide · 6 min read →Token Due Diligence Checklist
A practical checklist for evaluating any new token or project before you put money into it.
Read the guide · 6 min read →Multi-Signature Wallets Explained
How multi-signature wallets use M-of-N approvals to remove the single point of failure that comes with relying on one private key.
Read the guide · 5 min read →What Is a 51% Attack?
What a 51% attack really lets someone do on a blockchain, why it's mostly about double-spending, and why small chains are far more at risk.
Read the guide · 5 min read →Smart Contract Audits: What They Guarantee
What a smart contract audit actually checks, what it can't guarantee, and how to treat one as a signal rather than a safety stamp.
Read the guide · 5 min read →Crypto Taxes 101: What to Actually Track
The general principles behind crypto tax record-keeping: taxable events, cost basis, and habits to build. Not tax advice for any country.
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