
Blockchain fundamentals:
What is a blockchain
What is Bitcoin
What is Ethereum
What are smart contracts
Ethereum Virtual Machine
Use cases of blockchain technology:
Cryptocurrencies
Stablecoins
DeFi
NFTs
DAOs
Blockchain fundamentals:
What is a consensus mechanism
What are alt L1’s and what are they trying to achieve
Layer 2 scaling solutions
What is gas?
Self custody and security practises
Security practises
Setting up centralised exchange accounts and on-ramping fiat
Self custody and wallets
Setting up a MetaMask
DeFi Basics:
Transferring funds between wallets
Adding chains to MetaMask
Adding tokens to MetaMask
Bridging between blockchains
DEX trading/aggregators
Setting parameters of a DEX trade
Manually setting gas levels
Slippage
DeFi Basics:
Liquidity principles
Liquidity providing in DeFi
Risks associated with liquidity providing (Impermanent loss)
Staking in DeFi
Risk associated with staking
APR/APY
Auto compounders
DeFi Llama/Where to find yield information
Advanced DeFi:
MEV
Sandwich attacks
Arbitrage
Fixing a stuck transaction
Borrowing
Lending
Leverage
Stablecoins
DeFi tools:
Etherscan (Applicable to all blockchain explorers)
Zapper
DeBank
Nansen
Tracking wallets
Dune Analytics
Surviving and keeping your gains:
Risk management
Barbell strategy
Understanding market cycles
Basic support and resistance using candlestick charts
Finding an edge:
Researching projects - How to DYOR
Understanding tokenomics
Finding alpha
Understanding VC/Influencer psyops
Airdrop hunting
Hi and welcome to The DeFi Blueprint.
The DeFi Blueprint are a team of passionate DeFi educators that combine their experience over the last 5 years to deliver easy to understand and important content, without the hidden agendas that will be found on other content platforms.
There are no sponsorships or paid advertising, just lessons learned by professionals in the space with the aim of educating and hopefully saving money due to mistakes for the viewer.
This is all our personal experience and everything we have learnt, we want to help retail investors and newbies break away from losing money non-stop, getting hacked or rugged. We want to educate people on how to navigate the space and find their own edge in the market.
This course will be a good overview of some of the fundamentals such as:
Blockchain Fundamentals
Cryptocurrencies, NFTs and DAOs
Self-custody and security
Creating and funding your first self custody web3 wallet
Transferring funds, bridging, trading and operating on chain
Basic DeFi
Advanced DeFi
Lending/Borrowing, leverage and stablecoins
DeFi tools
Risk Management
Basic candlestick trading principles
Researching projects
Understanding tokenomics
Finding alpha and understanding the space
Airdrop hunting
We want to help everyone to be able to research and find their own alpha, keep their money and practice good risk management whilst also understanding the tech and the exciting places this space is headed.
We hope you enjoy!