Unit 4 · Level 5 · Protocol due diligence: capstone
Boss: Crypto master
The full framework: vet anything, size it for the frontier, and graduate scam-proof.
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What you get asked
From the very beginning: what problem did Bitcoin solve that made all of this possible?
One public ledger, verified by thousands of computers, made digital scarcity possible without a middleman. Every unit you've studied (DeFi, staking, RWAs, agents) builds on that foundation.
A polished 'wallet support' agent (perfect voice, real-looking dashboard) needs your 12 words to 'sync your account'. What's true?
The seed phrase IS the wallet: anyone holding it can drain everything, hardware or not, and there's no 'changing' it after exposure short of moving funds. No legitimate party ever asks.
Span the whole course: match each concept to its core truth
Five leagues in five lines: how DeFi works, how tokens dilute, how receipts depeg, how real yield arrives on-chain, and the one thing you never give away.
A hot new protocol tempts you. Order the graduate's full playbook
Diligence, yield source, cycle awareness, sizing, custody: the whole course in five moves. Skipping any one step is how each famous blowup found its victims.
A token pays '19% staking yield' funded almost entirely by new token emissions, insiders hold 70%, unlocking next month. What happens to a buyer chasing that 19%?
Printing-funded yield dilutes everyone while a 70% insider stash waits to sell into the hype. You've seen this exact machine in tokenomics, staking, AND AI-coin lessons, and it always ends the same way.
Final question of the course. Someone asks what crypto mastery actually is. The graduate's answer?
From 'don't trust, verify' in your first lesson to barbell sizing in your last, that one sentence is the whole journey. Course complete. You walked the frontier and came back with a map. 🐜
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The full framework: vet anything, size it for the frontier, and graduate scam-proof.