eventually you’ll realise that you can just do things in 2026 • you can learn how DeFi actually works • you can learn how to DYOR properly • you can study onchain analysis and wallet behavior • you can understand liquidity, slippage, and depth • you can learn tokenomics and emission design • you can study incentives and why protocols grow or die • you can learn AMMs, orderbooks, and aggregators • you can read whitepapers and governance proposals * you can learn risk management in DeFi • you can study stablecoins and how they break • you can learn bridges, L2s, and cross-chain mechanics • you can learn MEV and how it affects your trades • you can learn yield strategies beyond farming hype • you can learn how to track whales and smart money • you can improve your DeFi writing and threads • you can learn how to market yourself as a DeFi researcher • you can build dashboards, bots, or simple DeFi tools • you can ship a DeFi product or SaaS • you can contribute to protocols early • you can turn curiosity into onchain skill