Course library
DeFi University Courses
31 courses in eight stages, each lesson with an exercise and each module with a quiz. Stage 1 is free with your email. The membership opens every stage.
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Stage 1 · Beginner · Free with sign-in
Foundations
How money and crypto work, your first wallet, and the habits that keep your funds safe.
Money Basics
Understand what money really is, how banks work, and why crypto is a fundamentally different system.
12 lessons · about 3 hoursFreeCrypto Fundamentals
Learn what makes crypto different from traditional assets, how blockchains work, and how wallets protect your funds.
12 lessons · about 3 hoursFreeFirst Crypto Steps
Buy your first crypto, set up a wallet, and safely move it off an exchange.
12 lessons · about 3 hoursFreeStaying Safe in Crypto
Identify scams, protect your seed phrase, and build habits that keep your funds safe.
12 lessons · about 3 hoursFree
Stage 2 · Beginner · Members
DeFi Basics
What DeFi is, the mindset of a consistent operator, and the vocabulary every later course uses.
Introduction to DeFi
Understand what DeFi is, how smart contracts work, and why decentralized finance exists.
12 lessons · about 3 hoursMembersInvestor Mindset
Master the psychology behind consistent DeFi performance. Eliminate emotional decision-making and build elite trading habits.
12 lessons · about 6 hoursMembersDecentralized Finance Concepts
Deep dive into DeFi infrastructure — smart contracts, wallets, DEXes, lending, stablecoins, and Layer 2s.
12 lessons · about 6 hoursMembers
Stage 3 · Beginner · Members
Bitcoin and the Open Web
Hold and send sats, use Lightning and Nostr, and finish by building on them.
Bitcoin Basics
Understand what Bitcoin is, how it works, why the 21M cap matters, and how to buy, store, and self-custody your sats.
12 lessons · about 3 hoursMembersThe Lightning Network
Learn how Lightning solves Bitcoin's scaling problem, set up a wallet, and send instant micropayments.
12 lessons · about 3 hoursMembersNostr Protocol
Discover the open protocol for censorship-resistant communication. Build your sovereign identity on the Bitcoin-native social web.
12 lessons · about 3 hoursMembersZaps & Payments
Master Bitcoin transactions, send your first Zap, and connect any app to your wallet with Nostr Wallet Connect.
12 lessons · about 3 hoursMembersBuilding the Open Web
Earn sats as a creator, accept Bitcoin as a merchant, and build apps on Nostr and Lightning.
12 lessons · about 4 hoursMembers
Stage 4 · Intermediate · Members
DeFi Operator
Lending, perps and the one-page portfolio policy that the advanced courses build on.
DeFi Money Market Mastery
Master DeFi lending and borrowing on Aave, Morpho, and Euler. Build a professional yield optimization system.
12 lessons · about 8 hoursMembersPerpetual Futures Trading
Trade perpetuals on Hyperliquid, GMX V2, and Drift. Master funding rate arbitrage and professional risk management.
12 lessons · about 8 hoursMembersCrypto and DeFi Portfolio Construction
Master reserve, beta, and carry across BTC, ETH, and stables, including Aave and Morpho supply. Size from crash depth and write the one-page policy the later courses cite.
26 lessons · about 17 hoursMembers
Stage 5 · Intermediate · Members
Yield and Carry
Concentrated liquidity, rate spreads across lending venues, and fixed income on Pendle.
Concentrated Liquidity Provision
Master Uniswap V3/V4 concentrated liquidity, manage impermanent loss, and build a professional LP system.
12 lessons · about 8 hoursMembersCrypto and DeFi Interest-Rate Spreads
Master utilization and the supply-rate split on Aave, Morpho, Euler, Kamino, and HyperLend. Separate a cross-venue carry from a loop and finish with a spread memo.
27 lessons · about 18 hoursMembersFixed Income in Decentralized Finance
Master dated redemption on Pendle — SY, PT, and YT — and how a bond ladder, barbell, and bullet map onto PT maturities. Keep implied yield and the underlying APR on separate lines.
28 lessons · about 19 hoursMembers
Stage 6 · Advanced · Members
Trading Desk
Read charts and crowding, run funding and basis spreads, and trade defined-risk options.
Technical Analysis for Operators
Master chart structure, candles, and indicators as labels for past trade. On Hyperliquid, read funding and open interest as crowding beside a level.
30 lessons · about 20 hoursMembersFunding-Rate and Basis Spreads
Master funding and basis spreads on Hyperliquid, Bybit, OKX, Binance, dYdX, GMX, and Velocity. Keep each clock, oracle notional, and fee hurdle with the venue that printed it.
24 lessons · about 16 hoursMembersOptions: The Tastytrade Mechanical Approach
Master calls, puts, and defined-risk spreads on US listed equity and index options and Deribit BTC and ETH options, testing the mechanical approach tastylive documents. Work max profit, max loss, and breakevens with assignment as OCC describes it.
39 lessons · about 26 hoursMembers
Stage 7 · Advanced · Members
Quant Lab
Statistical arbitrage on Hyperliquid: discovery, spreads, honest backtests, execution and risk.
Two-Clock Stat-Arb Foundations
What statistical arbitrage is, why two clocks matter, log-price spreads, and the Hyperliquid native-perp study setting.
12 lessons · about 4 hoursMembersReady Conjunction and Pair Discovery
Five hard gates (stale bars through PELT) plus FDR, with Johansen as an advisory score, so a 300-pair scan does not invent cointegration.
12 lessons · about 4 hoursMembersSpreads, Signals, and Friction
Log-price spreads, frozen z-scores, next-bar fills, and perp costs — fees, slippage, and hourly funding.
12 lessons · about 4 hoursMembersHonest Backtesting on Hyperliquid
Purged walk-forward, concatenated out-of-sample Sharpe, data traps, DSR/PBO, and go/no-go hurdles.
12 lessons · about 4.5 hoursMembersExecution FSM, Risk, and Venue
Trade-state machine, hysteresis, RMT portfolio caps, native vs HIP-3 books, and a capstone study design.
12 lessons · about 4 hoursMembers
Stage 8 · Advanced · Members
Enterprise Ledgers
Canton Network for institutions: architecture, privacy, Daml, node operations and compliance.
Architectural Foundations & Core Topology
Network-of-networks vs public/private DLT, participant nodes and synchronizers, and the UTXO-style active contract set.
3 lessons · about 2.5 hoursMembersPrivacy, Consensus & Cross-Synchronizer Atomicity
Sub-transaction privacy, proof-of-stakeholder consensus, and atomic composability across synchronizers.
3 lessons · about 2.5 hoursMembersDaml Smart Contract Engineering
Daml developer stack, templates/parties/authorization, and building a DvP settlement engine.
3 lessons · about 2.5 hoursMembersIntegration, Deployment & Node Operations
Ledger API and JWT codegen, packaging and topology admin, and enterprise security with KMS.
3 lessons · about 2.5 hoursMembersCompliance, Economics & Strategy
Pruning and GDPR alignment, traffic control and Canton Coin, and institutional deployment evaluation.
3 lessons · about 2.5 hoursMembers
Membership
Every stage, $97 a month.
Every live call with David, all 31 courses, and the community. 7 days free, then $97 a month. Stage 1 stays free with your email.