Introduction
Some centuries ago, different organizations across Europe and Asia were accused of conspiracies and polemics. Mostly these accusations were provoked by the information that these sects or groups kept for themselves. or Myth or reality, what cannot be denied is that in the Middle Ages, knowledge was something considered hermetic and exclusive to certain groups that wisdom for them and the exclusive members of their circle.
Fortunately, things have changed in the last decades and in this era of information, we have more access to things we could not have imagined a few years ago. On the other hand, it may be shocking and paradoxical that in this era, we are less cultivated and informed.
"If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability." - Henry Ford
Knowledge is enough motivation for most of us to learn about new topics, but apart what if I tell you that apart from learning interesting topics and state of the art technologies you can also get rewarded?
As discussed in previous articles, the best investment you can make is learning. It’s undeniable the benefits that the continuous learning brings in the long term.
Although, learning by itself is already a rewarding and motivating activity, some of use will also appreciate additional bonuses. Keeping us updated is important in the competitive world we all live in. Not just for now, but for future years. By reward, I don’t mean just the new information or benefits you get, but new tokens, coins, or discounts you may get.
This post is not merely about getting free coins, but also new skills that you can get and apply in your professional world. Let’s dig deeper to see what these options are.
Learn to Earn Programs
The first group of this article is related to those programs where you learn the theory, or the basic concepts of a given blockchain or token. In the subsections below, you don’t just learn something new, but you also have the chance of getting rewarded with crypto currencies.
These are some of the most famous Learn to Earn programs out there, where you learn interesting new topics and you are rewarded in different manners.
Please bear in mind that these courses do not have any requirements such as “deposit 10 to earn 20, etc.”. Apart from learning and reading/watching the information, the only other requirement is that in some cases you may need to verify and pass the KYC checks.
Coinbase
Coinbase is sometimes criticized for different reasons such as business-related topics (dismissal of employees, business plan) or the trading fees. However, since they started in 2018, they have promoted different initiatives in the crypto community. One of the most famous ones is the Learning Rewards program, where users can earn different tokens. The process is quite easy and just watching a short video and answering some questions you can get some free tokens.
There is no surprise here and you can exchange as soon as you receive. The rewards are not a big amount, but, lately, they tend to occur quite often. Regardless of the rewards, videos are nice to watch and very well done. In addition to these videos, you may also see different articles.
Coinbase Information
One of the first ones to start with this initiative, Coinbase keeps offering these courses from time to time
Coinbase Learning Rewards
Binance
Binance is without any doubt, the largest crypto exchange in the world. In my opinion, the initially based Chinese exchange may be quite annoying with several daily notifications, but Changpeng Zhao’s organization have also several nice initiatives for their customers.
Since 2022, they have followed what Coinbase started and offer some small rewards for watching some videos and answering different questions. There are several courses, and the rewards are quite small. However, it is nice to understand and be aware of new projects, and in addition to learning and getting new ideas, being rewarded for so.
Binance Information
Binance offers several short courses about new altcoins and tradings
Binance Learn and Earn
Cake DeFi
Cake DeFi is a quite new player in the Decentralized Finance sector and now quite known for many people. However, with their current solutions, it is likely that you will get hear from them more and more. They are a company based in Singapore specialized in passive income, being the main pillars of these platform the following s
1. Liquidity mining: as opposed to centralized exchanges, in a DEX, liquidity is needed in order to enable trades between the different pairs. With liquidity mining you provide your crypto assets so other can use these to trade.
2. Staking: Via the Proof of Stake protocol, you lock your tokens to protect the network., and you get rewarded with additional tokens
3. Lending: The last strategy one is income generated from lending your coins to other DeFi participants.
With the available courses, you can at the moment earn the following tokens.
- DFI (DeFiChain) tokens
- BTC-DFI Tokens
Both of them are allocated to Staking and Liquidity mining, but after you unfreeze them you can do whatever you want with the coins you got in the courses plus the ones you got from the freeze period.
There is also a course coming soon related to Ethereum, where you will also learn something new and get rewarded.
Cake DeFi Information
With short quizzes you can learn different Decentralized Finance and crypto topics while you have fun
Cake DeFi Learn
Revolut
Revolut is very good for many aspects such as banking, currency conversion, travelling and the super cool features of the app such as virtual cards or instant transfers. However, when it comes to their investment features such as purchasing stock or crypto, there are still some aspects that should be improved.
That’s probably why in order to take off, Revolut has launched a Learn & Earn Program related to Polkadot. Compared to other courses, the lessons are related to one of the most important blockchains and the amounts are also higher.
In addition to the videos, you have also the option to see the glossary, where some important crypto and blockchain terms are explained.
There is no referral program here and you will get those tokens for you. You decide if you want to sell them for fiat or exchange them the moment you receive them.
Revolut Information
The purpose of the program is to learn about a specific cryptocurrency and familiarise with the world of crypto.
Revolut Learn & Earn Site
Technical Courses & Sites
Although the previous courses will reward you with direct tokens and the ones below will not, given the lack of technical skills that we will see in the future, the courses below may have a more relevant reward in upcoming years.
Once we have focused described the most important courses related to business and blockchains, we can also get more technical and in this matter, there are also very good courses to add new skills.
Uniswap
Uniswap, named as the name of the company that created it, is one of the most famous decentralized exchanges. Apart from the exchange and being an example of governance, Uniswap explains clearly very important topics related to DeFi.
They offer some projects located in GitHub and the open-source interface for their protocol is available in GitHub.
On top of these resources and what you may swap or earn in the exchange, you can also build different apps that integrate with the protocol and get paid from their grant program.
Uniswap Information
With the detailed documentation, you can learn about different topics and contribute to UniSwap in infinite ways.
Uniswap Site
Documentation Uniswap
Uniswap Interface
Ethernaut
Probably you have been hearing recently about the Ethereum Merge and the consequences that the fork may have not just for the Ethereum network but the whole crypto scene. Ethernaut is a war game played in an Ethereum Virtual Machine. developed by the OpenZeppelin, Ethernaut is a Web3 application developed with Solidity, where you can also learn this programming language.
The purpose of the game is both having fun and learning about Ethereum with different coding exercises at the same time you assimilate understand the Ethereum concepts with some practice.
Ethernaut Information
Inpspired by other game overthewire.org , each level of Ethernaut is a Smart Contract that you must hack to pass the level.
Visit Ethernaut
Visit GitHub Ethernaut
Crypto Zombies
Similar to Ethernaut, Crypto Zombies is a game where you can build a Zombie Factory to build your personal army composed of unique zombies.
Once you have created the zombies, the fun is not over. It’s now where you can fight other learners’ armies. Furthermore, you also get unique collectibles like other games. As with Ethernaut, you will also learn blockchain specific topics such as ERC721, Web3 or zkSync, making this website quite complete in order to have basic knowledge about dApp creation.
Crypto Zombies Information
With Crypto Zombies, the player can learn every aspect of how blockchains works while having fun.
Visit Crypto Zombies
Conclusion
As with many things in life, the best learning is practicing. Therefore, simple, or complex, why don’t start creating your own project once you know the basics? We are privileged to live in an era where information is accessible for everyone with infinite level of resources.
As you may see from the links, the technical courses may require more time, so it would be better to start learning the basic concepts from the first websites.
With new technologies and the expected growth, these technologies will eliminate several jobs, but there will a job shortage and companies not able to hire new talent because there are too few professionals with the required skills. One of them may be blockchain and everything that surrounds this industry.
"Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.” — Mahatma Gandhi