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Crypto Basics #14 — Understanding Crypto Lending

Crypto lending applies a familiar idea, lending and borrowing, to digital assets. One side lends out their crypto and earns interest. The other side borrows it and pays interest for the privilege.

Crypto Basics #13 — Understanding DeFi

DeFi is short for decentralized finance. It's the name for financial services, lending, borrowing, trading, saving, that run on a blockchain instead of through a bank.

Crypto Basics #12 — Understanding Stablecoins

Most cryptocurrencies move in price constantly. A stablecoin is the deliberate exception. It's a crypto token designed to hold a steady value, most often pegged one-to-one to a national currency like the US dollar.

RM Mechanics #4 — Understanding Leverage

Leverage lets you open a position larger than the money you actually put up. Trade $1,000 at 10x and you're controlling a $10,000 position. The appeal is obvious: a 5% move in your favor becomes a 50% gain on your capital. The part that gets less attention is that it works in exactly th...

Crypto Basics #11 — Understanding Solana (SOL)

Solana is a blockchain built around one priority: speed. Where some networks focus on being maximally decentralized or maximally secure, Solana was designed to process a very high number of transactions quickly and cheaply.

Mindset #3 — Why a Big Win Should Make You Slow Down

After a significant winning trade, most people feel the opposite of cautious. They feel confident, validated, ready to press their edge. Sometimes they double their next position size. Sometimes they take more setups than usual. Almost always, they give back a meaningful chunk of what t...

Crypto Basics #10 — Understanding Gas Fees

Doing anything on a blockchain costs a small fee. On Ethereum and many other networks, that fee is called gas.

RM Mechanics #3 — Cost Averaging vs. Buying the Dip (They're Not the Same)

Both involve buying more when price goes down. The logic behind them is completely different — and mixing them up is one of the quieter ways traders turn a manageable loss into a serious one.

Crypto Basics #9 — Understanding Staking

Staking is what proof of stake looks like from a regular user's side. Once you understand that a network is secured by tokens locked up as collateral, staking is simply how you take part in that.

Mindset #2 — Losing a Trade vs. Being a Bad Trader

Every trader loses trades. Including professional ones. Including people who do this full-time. The market doesn't owe anyone a winning streak, and five losing trades in a row doesn't mean your system is broken.