Crypto guides: learn crypto from A to Z

Learn crypto from A to Z, for free: a clear 13-step path, jargon-free, from your first purchase to securing your funds.

The beginner path in 13 steps

  1. Understanding crypto without the jargon : Bitcoin, blockchain, tokens and transactions: the basics to understand crypto before you invest.
  2. Bitcoin: what is it for and how does it work? : Learn how Bitcoin works, its supply cap, its fees and its real risks.
  3. Wallet, private key and recovery phrase : Learn how to choose a wallet and protect your recovery phrase without mistakes.
  4. Buying your first crypto : A step-by-step guide to choosing a platform, buying a small amount and checking the fees.
  5. Sending crypto on the right network : Address, network, memo and test transaction: the method to avoid transfer mistakes.
  6. Ethereum, EVM, gas and layer 2 : Understand why one address can exist on several networks and how fees work.
  7. Stablecoins: uses and risks : What stablecoins are for, why they can lose their peg and what to check before holding them.
  8. DEX and DeFi: making your first swap : Wallet, liquidity, slippage, approvals and costs: the steps of a decentralized trade.
  9. Getting started with Solana and SPL tokens : The basics of Solana, its fees in SOL and the checks to make before sending or swapping a token.
  10. Monero and privacy : Discover Monero, its wallets, syncing and the practical limits of privacy.
  11. Airdrops: taking part without getting trapped : Understand airdrops, measure their costs and spot fake sites and dangerous signatures.
  12. Securing your accounts and avoiding scams : A concrete routine to protect your accounts, wallets and transactions against phishing.
  13. Investing without confusing conviction and risk : Build a simple method to manage volatility, fees and the size of your positions.

Farm Perp DEXs

The Entropy + Arcus duo, waitlists, delta-neutral, maker volume, scoring and tools.

Airdrops and points

Points, farming, sybil, testnets, claims.

The basics

Blockchain, Bitcoin, Ethereum, tokens: the foundations.

Glossary and tips

Crypto jargon from A to Z (DYOR, NFA, WAGMI, dig…) and tips to search faster.

First steps

Choose a platform, buy, send, invest regularly.

Trading and perps

Charts, leverage, funding, liquidation, risk management.

Wallets and security

Keep your keys, avoid drainers, protect your accounts.

Blockchains and networks

Solana, layer 2s, bridges, Lightning, Hyperliquid…

DeFi

Swaps, pools, lending, staking, restaking, RWA.

NFTs, memecoins and launches

Launchpads, bonding curves, rug pulls, on-chain analysis.

Privacy

Traceability, Monero, CoinJoin, ZK.

Regulation

MiCA, CASP and PSAN: who is allowed to do what.

Advanced and niche

MEV, intents, account abstraction, DA, governance, nodes.

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Assets

Advanced

Basics

Crypto cards

  • The Gnosis Card : The Gnosis Card is a "self-custodial" Visa debit card: it runs on the Gnosis Pay network, which presents itself as the first decentralized payment network connecting traditional finance and decentralized finance.
  • The Kraken card (Krak) : Krak is the Kraken ecosystem's financial app, combining traditional banking services and crypto management. It comes with a Mastercard usable worldwide that lets you spend more than 400 different assets directly.
  • The OKX card : The OKX Card works as a virtual card linked to your OKX Pay wallet. Conversion to euros happens in real time, at the exact moment of the transaction — this is what's called a "smart wallet" setup: your crypto stays in your wallet until the second you pay, with no manual conversion or top-up to plan ahead.
  • Crypto cards : frais réels et cashback comparés (FR)

Privacy

DeFi

Method

Opportunities

Perp DEX

  • Delta-neutral between two Perp DEXs : A long on one Perp DEX, a short of the same size on another: the foundation of farming strategies. Choosing your two legs, setting leverage, watching liquidation and ADL, with a worked example.
  • Boost your points on Arcus and Entropy: the SanDisk delta-neutral : Our best play right now: a SanDisk long and short of the same size, one leg on Arcus, the other on Entropy. You farm both programs without being exposed to the price. The step-by-step, the costs and the traps.
  • Farming Arcus: the complete guide : The points system of Arcus, the dYdX team's DEX on Robinhood Chain, is live. The criteria, the 3 boosts, the SanDisk delta-neutral with Entropy and our passive technique: turning your spot bags into 1x perps.
  • Farming Entropy: the complete guide : Pre-IPO, stock and index perps on Hyperliquid: signing up, depositing, placing your first maker orders and positioning early on Entropy, with the real fees and the risks specific to these markets.
  • Building volume with maker orders : On a Perp DEX, volume mostly costs fees. With post-only limit orders, by hand or with a bot, it costs far less than with market orders. Method, costs per platform and limits.
  • Matching the points scoring instead of spamming volume : Each Perp DEX weights its points in its own way. Low open interest pairs, holding time, PnL, multipliers and multi-farming: what often counts, and how to work out a program's scoring.
  • TitanX: joining the waitlist (early access) : Titan, the private, compliant 24/7 exchange on Canton Network, hasn't launched yet: only the waitlist is open. How to sign up in two minutes, with no gas, and what we really know about the project.
  • Tread: looping volume with the market-maker bot : Tread's market-maker bot places maker orders on both sides of the book to generate volume on Extended, Hyperliquid or Pacifica. Settings, the real cost of $100,000 of volume and the risks.
  • VOOI: opening a delta-neutral in one click : VOOI Ultra's Arbitrage Desk compares funding and prices across Perp DEXs, then opens both legs of a delta-neutral in a single action. How to use it, fees, farming combinations and limits.

First steps

Regulation

Networks

Security

Tokens & NFTs

Trading