Brown Belt (1 Month)

Once you’ve consumed all of the resources in the “Purple Belt” section, it’s time to deepen and broaden your understanding of key concepts, as well as start paying attention to developing trends in the space. You can do so by following the below roadmap:

1. Deepen Your Understanding of Key Concepts: While books on the crypto space are often dated the moment they are released, I still find them extremely helpful in gaining a deeper understanding of important concepts. My list of favorites (in rough order of preference) is below:

• Token Economy by Shermin Voshmgir

• The Internet of Money by Andreas M. Antonopoulos

• How to DeFi: Basic by CoinGecko

• How to DeFi: Advanced by CoinGecko

• How to NFT by CoinGecko

• The Sovereign Individual by James Dale Davidson and William Rees-Mogg

• The Bitcoin Standard: The Decentralized Alternative to Central Banking by Saifedean Ammous

• The Metaverse by Matthew Ball

• Blockchain Revolution: How the Technology Behind Bitcoin and Other Cryptocurrencies is Changing the World The Age of Cryptocurrency by Don Tapscott

• Economics in One Lesson by Henry Hazlitt

• The Network State by Balaji S. Srinivasan

• Cryptoassets by Chris Burniske and Jack Tatar

• A History of Money by Glyn Davies

• Mastering Bitcoin by Andreas M. Antonopoulos

• Creature from Jekyll Island by G. Edward Griffin

• How to Bitcoin by CoinGecko

• Digital Gold by Nathaniel Popper

• Bitcoin Billionaires by Ben Mezrich

• Proof of Stake by Vitalik Buterin

• The Infinite Machine: How an Army of Crypto-hackers Is Building the Next Internet with Ethereum by Camila Russo

• The Cryptopians by Laura Shin

• Debt the First 5000 Years by David Graeber

• Money: The Unauthorised Biography by Felix Martin

• Bitcoin: The Future of Money? by Dominic Frisby

• Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency Technologies by Arvind Narayanan et al

2. Broaden Your Understanding of the Space: We’ve covered many of the high-level concepts in crypto above, but to the extent that you don’t understand something, now is the time to fill the gap. As such, I would recommend reviewing the YouTube Channels of both Whiteboard Crypto and Finematics and watching any video on 1) a topic that you’re unfamiliar with or 2) don’t understand well. These videos are generally 10 – 20 minutes max and they break things down really well.

(Note: if you’re more of a podcast person you can also do the same on Bankless or Unchained)

3. Stay Updated on Current Developments: Like with learning any topic in business or technology, it’s always helpful to stay on top of the news. As such, you can find a couple of my favorite news and research sources here. But what’s infinitely more helpful, in my opinion, is to follow the top accounts on “crypto twitter”. Many of these accounts provide breaking news and very thoughtful commentary (although you often have to take a contrarian mindset and do you own research, as everyone is wrong from time to time and many accounts are, unfortunately, paid to hype projects). A list of my favorite twitter accounts can be found here.