Threat model before tools
Design around concrete failures and the people who must recover.
About 14 minutes with practice · Marked complete
Sikh Bitcoin · Expert · 21 lessons
Sovereignty & Self-Custody
Design recovery and accountable operations. Compare native Bitcoin and Lightning with wrapped collateral, USDC and lending without hiding the dependencies.
21 lessons · About 5 hours including practice. Comfort with Deep Dive. Scenarios use fictional records; no funds or credentials are needed.
What you will be able to do
Create a defensible custody and treasury design, including the evidence needed to decide not to deploy.
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Your 21-lesson path
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Design a custody architecture
Separate routine use, authorization and observation.
About 14 minutes with practice · Marked complete
Entropy, mnemonics and passphrase tradeoffs
Understand recovery inputs without improvising cryptography.
About 14 minutes with practice · Marked complete
Hardware signing and trusted displays
A separate device helps only when its checks are understood.
About 14 minutes with practice · Marked complete
Multisig and independent control
Count independent failure domains, not just signatures.
About 14 minutes with practice · Marked complete
Recovery and continuity across people
Make a plan that remains understandable when its author is absent.
About 14 minutes with practice · Marked complete
Coin control and privacy tradeoffs
Understand how transaction construction can connect histories.
About 14 minutes with practice · Marked complete
Lightning operations and recovery
Operate a payment service with channel state and continuity in mind.
About 14 minutes with practice · Marked complete
Payment operations and reconciliation
Design clear records from an invoice to an authorized refund.
About 14 minutes with practice · Marked complete
Native bitcoin and wrapped claims
Follow the asset and the extra trust assumptions.
About 14 minutes with practice · Marked complete
USDC, reserves and redemption
Separate issuer commitments from market prices and access.
About 14 minutes with practice · Marked complete
Identify a Morpho market precisely
A symbol pair is not a complete lending specification.
About 14 minutes with practice · Marked complete
Oracles, prices and measurement risk
Understand which price a lending contract actually uses.
About 14 minutes with practice · Marked complete
LTV, liquidation and nonlinear losses
Work through a hypothetical balance sheet without taking a loan.
About 14 minutes with practice · Marked complete
Variable rates and growing debt
Read a rate as a changing input, not a promise.
About 14 minutes with practice · Marked complete
Vaults, allocation and exit liquidity
Look through a share balance to the underlying exposures.
About 14 minutes with practice · Marked complete
Arc, Base and cross-chain dependencies
Name the settlement rules behind the interface.
About 14 minutes with practice · Marked complete
Allowances, signing and simulation
Understand what a token authorization permits.
About 14 minutes with practice · Marked complete
Treasury accounting and restricted funds
Make obligations and permissions visible beside asset balances.
About 14 minutes with practice · Marked complete
Incident response with clear human authority
Respond to uncertainty without creating a second incident.
About 14 minutes with practice · Marked complete
Capstone: a defensible treasury design
Compare options and write a decision that another person can challenge.
About 14 minutes with practice · Marked complete
AI-assisted educational material. Sources checked October 1, 2026; independent curriculum review is pending. The final capstone is a self-directed exercise, not a credential or permission to transact.