CoinBeaver Learn

Learn crypto from the ground up.

Follow a clear path from first principles to safer decisions and deeper market understanding.

CoinBeaver builds a learning tree above distributed roots and a flowing transaction route

Your crypto learning map

Four stages, from roots to leaves.

Each stage builds on the one before it. Follow the order if you are new, or jump straight to the question in front of you.

Part 1 · Root

Know what you are buying

What crypto assets actually are: coins versus tokens, Bitcoin versus stablecoins, and how wallets and custody work.

Start with the 10 articles

Part 2 · Trunk

Read the market

How to read price, volume, market cap, and ETF flows - the numbers behind every CoinBeaver data page.

Read the market
  1. Crypto Treasury Companies: What You Own and What Makes Them Sell
    How digital asset treasury companies finance their coin purchases, who ranks ahead of common shareholders, why the buying stops, and what forces a sale.
  2. How Exchanges Build the Index Price: The Basket Behind Your Liquidation
    Every venue builds its index from its own basket of spot exchanges, with its own rule for what to do when one of them dislocates. Work through the published methodologies at Binance, Bybit, OKX and Deribit, and see why the same position carries a different liquidation price on each.
  3. Why the Memecoin Craze Happens
    Attention as the scarce resource, lottery preference, community as the product, and why knowing the base rate does not change behaviour — the mechanism behind the odds.
  4. What "Beta" Actually Means in Crypto (And Why Most Portfolios Are All Beta)
    Beta gets used three incompatible ways in the same conversation. Work through the real definition, why the benchmark is contested when Bitcoin is 56% of it, why crypto beta will not hold still, and why a ten-coin basket is closer to a leverage decision than a diversification one.
  5. Pre-Launch Perps: Trading a Price That Doesn't Exist Yet
    A pre-launch perp has no spot market to reference, so the contract becomes its own oracle. Work through how Hyperliquid and Binance each solve that, why arbitrage cannot anchor the price, and the XPL case where the pre-launch market printed a price the token never reached.
  6. Auto-Deleveraging (ADL) Explained: When the Exchange Closes Your Winner
    How the ADL queue is ranked, what price your position is closed at, why the settlement gap matters less than the forced exit, and how to read the indicator on your position row.

Part 3 · Branches

Choose a safe route

Buying routes, exchange fees, and custody risk - the checks to make before choosing where to transact.

Explore your options

Part 4 · Leaves

Go deeper

Deeper topics once the basics hold: individual assets like Ethereum and Solana, ETF mechanics, and tax questions.

Explore deep dives
  1. Leveraged ETF Perps: Three Kinds of Leverage in One Position
    SOXL, TQQQ, SOXS and TZA trade as perpetual futures on crypto venues. Work through the daily-reset arithmetic that makes a flat index cost money in both directions, what the perp wrapper adds on top, and why shorting both sides is a path bet rather than a free harvest.
  2. Zcash vs Monero: Optional Privacy, Mandatory Privacy, and What Each One Costs
    ZEC and XMR disagree about who has to be private. Compare shielding models, ring signatures against zero-knowledge proofs, the 2026 Orchard bug and Ironwood upgrade, Monero's pending FCMP++, exchange access, and the EU rule that lands in July 2027.
  3. Advanced DeFi Yield and Hedging Strategies for Active Traders
    How on-chain markets price fixed against floating yield, how delta-neutral basis trades work, and why leverage loops multiply risk faster than income.
  4. DEX Perps: GMX GM Pools, Virtual AMMs, and Counterparty Risk
    How perpetual DEXs source liquidity: GM pools and GLV vaults, virtual AMMs, the delta exposure LPs actually take, and Synthetix v3 credit delegation.
  5. Ethena and USDe: Deconstructing the Delta-Neutral Synthetic Dollar
    How USDe's delta-neutral structure works, where the yield comes from, what negative funding does to it, and how off-exchange custody works.
  6. Trading Funding Rates on Margin: The Boros Protocol and Rate Hedging
    How Boros makes perpetual funding rates tradable: Yield Units, fixed vs floating sides, hedging funding cost, and why margin scales with time to maturity.

Reviews & analysis

Evidence-led comparisons and CoinBeaver's own judgment, with methodology and conflicts stated clearly.