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Curriculum

Everything we teach,in the order it holds together.

Five years and a graduate track, 101 courses, 484 lessons. Every course opens with a documented failure and every figure carries a source. Start at the diagnostic if you do not know where you belong, and expect the honest answer to be a shorter path than you assumed.

Lessons
484
Courses
101
Lesson hours, measured
264
Open to read
Orientation + Year One

Pathways

Six ways through

The years are the full sequence. These are routes through the same courses for a learner who knows what they came for, each stating what it ends in. The placement diagnostic recommends one; you can choose another.

Protect what I hold

Every holder. Most people should take this and stop.

67 lessons · 31.9 hrs

Custody, keys, signing, the threat model, third-party access, continuity and verification. Year One in full, because the Custody Practical examines all of it.

  1. O100
  2. F101
  3. F102
  4. F103
  5. F104
  6. F105
  7. F106
  8. F107
  9. F108
  10. F109
  11. F110
  12. F111

Ends in

The Custody Practical, and the XDRIP Academy Certificate in Self-Custody (XA-C).

Decide whether to invest

Investors who will not trade.

104 lessons · 52.1 hrs

After Year One: how a market clears, what an asset is worth, where the data comes from, how to write an investment policy and how to measure your own returns. Chart reading is available in S203 and is not required.

  1. O100
  2. F101
  3. F102
  4. F103
  5. F104
  6. F105
  7. F106
  8. F107
  9. F108
  10. F109
  11. F110
  12. F111
  13. S201
  14. S202
  15. S205
  16. S206
  17. S207
  18. S208
  19. S211

Ends in

The Analyst Practical, and the XDRIP Academy Certificate in Digital Asset Analysis (XA-A). Since 2026-09-09 the gate scores the teardown, the investment policy and the returns paper; chart reading is taught in S203 and not required for the certificate.

Run payments and records

Merchants, freelancers and finance staff.

49 lessons · 23.5 hrs

What a chain is, why the rails differ, custody and signing, exchanges and on-ramps, and records you can reconcile. Ends at the practical business job rather than at a trading year.

  1. O100
  2. F101
  3. F102
  4. F103
  5. F104
  6. F105
  7. F107
  8. F108
  9. F109

Ends in

No gate yet. The payments practical lives in graduate track G6, which is a topic list today; the reviews propose bringing it forward as its own small gate.

Operate on chain

Protocol users and operators.

121 lessons · 61.8 hrs

After Year One and the Sophomore market-structure and data courses: contracts, permissions, bridges, swaps, liquidity, lending, yield and stablecoin operations, with the risk each one adds.

  1. O100
  2. F101
  3. F102
  4. F103
  5. F104
  6. F105
  7. F106
  8. F107
  9. F108
  10. F109
  11. F110
  12. F111
  13. S201
  14. S205
  15. J301
  16. J302
  17. J303
  18. J304
  19. J305
  20. J306
  21. J310

Ends in

The Operator Practical requires the Sophomore gate first and all of Junior, so this pathway is the shortest route to the material rather than a shortcut to XA-O.

Trade with leverage

The Senior destination, unchanged.

264 lessons · 144.1 hrs

Everything through Junior, then the Senior year: sizing from risk rather than ambition, derivatives, automation, and the base-rate acknowledgment before the Risk Practical.

  1. O100
  2. F101
  3. F102
  4. F103
  5. F104
  6. F105
  7. F106
  8. F107
  9. F108
  10. F109
  11. F110
  12. F111
  13. S201
  14. S202
  15. S203
  16. S205
  17. S206
  18. S207
  19. S208
  20. S209
  21. S210
  22. S211
  23. S212
  24. J301
  25. J302
  26. J303
  27. J304
  28. J305
  29. J306
  30. J307
  31. J308
  32. J310
  33. J311
  34. J312
  35. J313
  36. R401
  37. R402
  38. R403
  39. R404
  40. R405
  41. R406
  42. R407
  43. R408
  44. R409
  45. R410
  46. R411

Ends in

The Risk Practical, and the XDRIP Academy Certificate in Risk-Managed Trading (XA-R).

Own what I make

Creators and community operators.

74 lessons · 35.8 hrs

Year One, then digital ownership and the creator economy: what a platform can take from you, what a DOT actually records, and a platform-exit plan.

  1. O100
  2. F101
  3. F102
  4. F103
  5. F104
  6. F105
  7. F106
  8. F107
  9. F108
  10. F109
  11. F110
  12. F111
  13. J307

Ends in

No gate yet. J307 sits in Junior today and inherits Junior's account requirement; the reviews propose an artifact gate, a platform-exit plan, which does not exist.

The corridor · ReimsBefore Year One
Before Year One · 4.6 hrs · 9 lessonsOpen

Orientation

Placement and Priming

Find out what the learner already knows, what they are actually here for, how much they can afford to lose, and how badly calibrated their confidence is.

O100Placement and Priming5 lessons2.6 hrs›
O101After a Loss4 lessons2 hrs›
The lecture roomYear One
Year One · 29.3 hrs · 62 lessonsOpen

Freshman

Custody, Safety and First Principles

You will not lose money to theft, error, or misunderstanding. You can hold, send, receive, and recover value on your own.

Gate · XA-C · 12 months · sittable

The Custody Practical

6 pass-required components. XDRIP Academy Certificate in Self-Custody. See the pass standards.

F101What a Blockchain Actually Is5 lessons2.5 hrs›
F102Money, Trust, and Why Any of This Exists5 lessons2.6 hrs›
F103Keys, Addresses, and What Custody Means5 lessons2.5 hrs›
F104Wallet Architecture, Done Properly9 lessons4.2 hrs›
F105Transactions: What You Are Actually Signing6 lessons2.4 hrs›
F106The Threat Model6 lessons3 hrs›
F107Exchanges, On-Ramps, and Off-Ramps5 lessons2.5 hrs›
F108Records, Taxes, and Operating Like an Adult4 lessons2 hrs›
F109Third-Party Access and Delegated Control5 lessons2.2 hrs›
F110Inheritance and Continuity6 lessons2.4 hrs›
F111AI-Era Threats and Verification6 lessons3 hrs›
The reading deskYear Two
Year Two · 36.1 hrs · 66 lessonsEnrolled

Sophomore

Markets, Assets and Valuation

Understand what you are actually buying, how it gets priced, and how to evaluate it, before you ever take a leveraged position.

Gate · XA-A · 24 months · sittable

The Analyst Practical

3 pass-required components. XDRIP Academy Certificate in Digital Asset Analysis. See the pass standards.

S201Market Structure and Price Formation5 lessons2.8 hrs›
S202Token Analysis and Tokenomics6 lessons3.4 hrs›
S203Chart Literacy and Evidence12 lessons6.7 hrs›
S205On-Chain and Fundamental Data5 lessons2.5 hrs›
S206Macro, Cycles, and Narrative5 lessons2.5 hrs›
S207Investing Frameworks (Unleveraged)6 lessons3.3 hrs›
S208Behavioral Finance and the Operator5 lessons2.6 hrs›
S209The Centralized Exchange in Depth7 lessons3.8 hrs›
S210Automation Literacy: What Bots Actually Do6 lessons3 hrs›
S211Portfolio Analytics and Performance Measurement5 lessons3.1 hrs›
S212TradFi Access Rails: ETFs, ETPs, and Treasuries4 lessons2.4 hrs›
The street, lateYear Three
Year Three · 39.1 hrs · 69 lessonsEnrolled

Junior

On-Chain Operator

Operate across chains and protocols with a correct model of every risk you are absorbing, including the ones nobody discloses.

Gate · XA-O · 24 months · sittable

The Operator Practical

4 pass-required components. XDRIP Academy Certificate in On-Chain Operations. See the pass standards.

J301Chains, Layer 2s, and Bridges5 lessons2.7 hrs›
J302Swap Execution: AMMs, MEV, and DEX Architectures12 lessons6.8 hrs›
J303Liquidity Provision and Impermanent Loss5 lessons3 hrs›
J304Lending, Borrowing, and Collateralized Leverage5 lessons2.9 hrs›
J305Staking, Restaking, and Yield Architecture5 lessons2.8 hrs›
J306Smart Contract Risk for Non-Developers5 lessons2.7 hrs›
J307Digital Ownership and the Creator Economy7 lessons3.9 hrs›
J308Governance, DAOs, and Airdrop Economics4 lessons2.2 hrs›
J310Real World Assets: Tokenized Finance7 lessons3.7 hrs›
J311Privacy, Surveillance, and Compliance Exposure5 lessons2.9 hrs›
J312Insurance, Hedging, and On-Chain Risk Transfer4 lessons2.4 hrs›
J313Mining, Validating, and Running Infrastructure5 lessons3.1 hrs›
The window · AmsterdamYear Four
Year Four · 37 hrs · 62 lessonsEnrolled

Senior

Derivatives, Leverage and Risk Management

If you are going to use leverage, you will use it as a professional does: sized from risk, not from ambition, with the math done before the position opens.

Gate · XA-R · 24 months · sittable

The Risk Practical

7 pass-required components. XDRIP Academy Certificate in Risk-Managed Trading. See the pass standards.

R401Derivatives Foundations5 lessons2.9 hrs›
R402Margin and Liquidation Mathematics6 lessons3.8 hrs›
R403Risk Management as the Actual Product6 lessons3.9 hrs›
R404Execution and Trade Craft5 lessons3.1 hrs›
R405Strategy Development and Validation5 lessons2.9 hrs›
R406Options and Structured Positions5 lessons3.1 hrs›
R407Advanced Market Mechanics5 lessons2.9 hrs›
R408The Professional Operating System6 lessons3.2 hrs›
R409Grid, DCA, and Rule-Based Automation7 lessons4.6 hrs›
R410Copy Trading, Vaults, and Agentic Execution6 lessons3.4 hrs›
R411Building, Validating, and Operating Your Own Automation6 lessons3.2 hrs›
Lecture hall, after hoursAfter

Graduate

Specialization tracks

9 of 9 tracks authored. The rest are scoped and listed so the shape of what comes after is visible rather than implied.

G1On-Chain AnalystRequires junior · 12.3 hrs measured · Enrolled

Strongest individual demand.

G101Querying On-Chain Data4 lessons2 hrs›
G102Wallet Clustering and Heuristics4 lessons2 hrs›
G103Fund-Flow Tracing and Forensics4 lessons2.1 hrs›
G104MEV Analysis4 lessons2 hrs›
G105Protocol Financial Statements4 lessons2.1 hrs›
G106The Research Report4 lessons2.1 hrs›
G2Security and Self-AuditRequires junior · 12.2 hrs measured · Enrolled

Explicit handoff to Cyfrin Updraft's SSCD+ path for anyone going further.

G201Invariant Thinking4 lessons2 hrs›
G202Vulnerability Classes a User Must Understand4 lessons2 hrs›
G203Reading Audit Reports4 lessons2 hrs›
G204Tools a Non-Developer Can Run4 lessons2 hrs›
G205Monitoring, Alerting, and Response4 lessons2.1 hrs›
G206Running a Security Review for a Small Team4 lessons2.1 hrs›
G3Builder BridgeRequires freshman · 13.6 hrs measured · Enrolled

Deliberately shallow and deliberately short. We do not compete with best-in-class free developer education; we prepare people for it and say so.

G301Solidity Mental Models4 lessons2.2 hrs›
G302The EVM: Gas, Calls, and Reverts4 lessons2.3 hrs›
G303Storage, Upgrades, and Trust4 lessons2.3 hrs›
G304Testing and the Toolchain4 lessons2.3 hrs›
G305Reading Contracts Fluently4 lessons2.3 hrs›
G306The Handoff: Learning to Build Safely4 lessons2.2 hrs›
G4Institutional and ComplianceRequires junior · 13 hrs measured · Enrolled

The enterprise product. Likely strongest enterprise demand alongside G6.

G401Custody Operations and Key Ceremonies4 lessons2.1 hrs›
G402Treasury and Operational Controls4 lessons2.1 hrs›
G403The Regulatory Map4 lessons2.2 hrs›
G404AML, KYC, and the Travel Rule4 lessons2.2 hrs›
G405Blockchain Analytics from the Compliance Side4 lessons2.2 hrs›
G406Audit, Reporting, and the Board4 lessons2.2 hrs›
G5Professional TraderRequires senior · 13.7 hrs measured · Enrolled
G501Market Making and Liquidity Provision4 lessons2.3 hrs›
G502Quantitative Methods and Model Risk4 lessons2.2 hrs›
G503Risk Systems and Position Limits4 lessons2.3 hrs›
G504The Rogue Trader and the Control Failure4 lessons2.3 hrs›
G505The Retail and Funded-Account Landscape4 lessons2.3 hrs›
G506Building a Track Record That Survives Due Diligence4 lessons2.3 hrs›
G6Payments and Stablecoin OperationsRequires sophomore · 13.2 hrs measured · Enrolled

The most forward-looking track and the one most likely to matter commercially in three years.

G601Stablecoin Mechanics and Issuer Risk4 lessons2.2 hrs›
G602Merchant Acceptance and Settlement Rails4 lessons2.2 hrs›
G603Payroll, Contractors, and Held Balances4 lessons2.2 hrs›
G604Cross-Border Settlement and Corridor Economics4 lessons2.2 hrs›
G605The GENIUS Compliance Surface4 lessons2.2 hrs›
G606Agentic Payments and the Machine-to-Machine Economy4 lessons2.2 hrs›
G7Educator and CommunityRequires junior · 12.7 hrs measured · Enrolled

Requires Junior plus any one graduate track. Feeds the instructor pipeline and the licensing model, and is the assessor pipeline: hand-marked artifacts are reviewed by named assessors on a ten-day turnaround, and this track is where the next assessors come from.

G701How to Teach This Material4 lessons2.2 hrs›
G702Pedagogical Fundamentals4 lessons2.1 hrs›
G703Disclosure Ethics and How Crypto Educators Get Compromised4 lessons2.1 hrs›
G704Community Moderation4 lessons2.1 hrs›
G705Scam Response for Community Leaders4 lessons2.1 hrs›
G706Running a Cohort4 lessons2.1 hrs›
G8Tokenized Finance and RWA StructuringRequires junior · 13.4 hrs measured · Enrolled

Requires J310. Aimed at issuers, asset managers, fund operations staff, and the legal-adjacent roles this sector is hiring for fastest.

G801Securities Law for Tokenized Assets4 lessons2.2 hrs›
G802The SPV and Bankruptcy Remoteness4 lessons2.2 hrs›
G803Custody, Attestation, and the Off-Chain Link4 lessons2.2 hrs›
G804Programmable Compliance and Valuation Governance4 lessons2.2 hrs›
G805Redemption, Gating, and Secondary Liquidity4 lessons2.3 hrs›
G806Cross-Border Distribution and RWA as Collateral4 lessons2.3 hrs›
G9Systematic Trading EngineeringRequires senior · 13.8 hrs measured · Enrolled

Requires the full Automation Block. The bridge from 'I use a bot platform' to 'I operate a system'.

G901Market Data and Its Failure Modes4 lessons2.3 hrs›
G902Exchange and Venue APIs4 lessons2.3 hrs›
G903Order Management and Reconciliation4 lessons2.3 hrs›
G904Execution Algorithms4 lessons2.3 hrs›
G905Backtesting and Validation4 lessons2.3 hrs›
G906Live Risk and Kill Switches4 lessons2.3 hrs›