The class
Learn it here
Two different things. The Ledger Academy is the school. Go there if you want the lesson. The terms under it are one minute each. They are the words, not the course.
The school · about an hour if you walk it
The Ledger Academy
This is the lesson. The show is the talk. On the other site you get three stops: Ride the trail, the wallet workshop, and the land walk. No wallet inside a lesson. Leave here, learn it, come back. Not financial advice.
Open the schoolShow prep · not the class
Top 50. What they actually do.
The binder, in plain sentences. The first ten are written. The rest are named and still blank. Snapshot November 5, 2026. Not a buy list.
Open the binder →
One-minute terms
Optional. About a minute. Not the class.
1 min
Blockchain
The ledger. Blocks of transactions chained together. Public, checkable, nobody in the middle rewriting the book.
1 min
Not your keys
If you don’t hold the keys, you don’t hold the coins. Custody is the whole game.
1 min
Hot vs cold wallet
Hot is online and handy. Cold is offline and harder to steal. Know which one you’re using and why.
1 min
DYOR
Do your own research. Don’t ape a screenshot. Read it yourself.
1 min
DCA beats timing
Dollar cost average. Same amount, on a schedule. Timing the top is a hobby. DCA is a habit.
1 min
HODL
Hold on for dear life. Not a dare. A reminder that panic sells are how people get wrecked.
1 min
FOMO
Fear of missing out. That’s how bags get bought at the top. Slow down.
1 min
ATH
All time high. The peak so far. Not a promise it keeps going.
1 min
Gas fees
Network fuel. You pay to move. When the chain is busy, lunch money disappears.
1 min
Stablecoin
A digital dollar — or it claims to be. Peg, reserves, and who backs it still matter.
1 min
Smart contract
Code that runs when the conditions hit. No clerk. Read it before you sign it with a wallet.
1 min
NFT
A token that points at a thing. Art, a ticket, a receipt. The file isn’t always on the chain.
1 min
Liquidation
Force closed. Leverage works until it doesn’t. The house takes the position.
1 min
Clarity — is and isn’t
What the rules say. What they don’t. Don’t trade a headline.