
Learn to analyze crypto white papers and perform pre-investment checks with a practical checklist. Identify core components—project outline, team, token information, and roadmap—to spot red flags and assess viability.
Learn to read a white paper by understanding its high-level purpose and terminology, then evaluate projects like Quant, The Graph, Uniswap, and Aave to grasp interoperability, governance, and tokenomics.
Analyze the total addressable market to estimate a project's value by applying percentage capture of TAM, using CAGR and market size to assess upside and risk.
Analyze tokenomics to assess project ownership, token circulation, and how security, utility, and network tokens determine overall value.
Identify token types from white papers, noting GPT as a utility token, Quant for securing gateways and earning fees, and Zcash as a network token enabling transfers.
Understand tokenomics basics, including circulating supply, total supply, and max supply, and how these metrics reveal a crypto project's health and investment quality.
Explore how token supply—circulating, total, and max supply—shapes value by examining minting and burning and inflationary, deflationary, and fixed models, with BTC, GT, and Quant examples.
Assess market cap, circulating supply, and price to value crypto projects across large and micro caps. Analyze inflationary and deflationary mechanisms, evaluate the white paper for red flags before investing.
Explore how network effects create value as user bases grow and drive adoption. Compare Sarnoff's, Metcalfe's, and Reed's laws to assess which structures yield the strongest network effects.
Assess the project team by checking if they are public or anonymous, their industry experience and connections, their social activity including LinkedIn, and their conference participation to gauge credibility.
Explore funding sources for crypto projects: private sales, angel, VC backing, private equity, and company treasury, and analyze release schedules, exit liquidity, and VC wallet addresses.
Compare web3 projects to web2 incumbents in the competitive landscape, assess market size and barriers to entry, and identify defensive moats and niche opportunities with tokenomics and active teams.
Explore on-chain insights with Etherscan and bubble maps to assess token holder distribution, live transfers, and exit liquidity risks for a well distributed project.
Analyze a micro-cap project using the crypto cat checklist, reviewing the whitepaper, tokenomics, team, distribution, go-to-market plan, and market approach, while exploring competition, funding, and network effects.
Investing in blockchain and cryptocurrency projects can be an exciting opportunity, but it can also be a confusing and complex process. This course is designed to give you the tools and knowledge you need to make informed decisions. With our blockchain investment checklist, information about risk assessment, and whitepaper analysis guide, you will learn how to choose and audit crypto projects with confidence.
In this course, you will put the skills and knowledge you have gained to the test. You will choose a crypto project and use our downloadable project analysis checklist to evaluate its potential. You will consider various factors such as the team behind the project, their goals and objectives, and the technology they are using.
Next, you will assess the risk involved with investing in the project, taking into account the market conditions and regulatory environment. You will also research the competition and any potential challenges the project may face.
Finally, you will read and analyze the project's whitepaper. This document is a crucial piece of information that provides a detailed description of the project's goals, technology, and financial model. You will use your newly acquired whitepaper analysis skills to evaluate the viability of the project and determine its potential for success.
At the end of this course, you will have a comprehensive understanding of how to choose and evaluate crypto projects and make informed investment decisions. You will be equipped with the tools and knowledge you need to navigate the exciting world of blockchain and cryptocurrency with confidence.