Crypto is no longer a curiosity on the edge of finance. Trading firms, market makers, and funds now run dedicated digital-asset desks, and they are hiring for them. If you want one of those seats, you need more than a view on whether Bitcoin is here to stay. You need to understand how this market actually works, and how it differs from the traditional markets you already know.
That is what this course is built for. It starts with the foundations: what a cryptocurrency is, how blockchains reach consensus, keys and custody, coins versus tokens, smart contracts, and DeFi. It then moves to the part a desk actually cares about: how crypto markets are structured across fragmented, around-the-clock venues, why stablecoins are the settlement rail, and how prices form on order books and automated market makers. From there you cover the instruments traders live in, perpetual futures and funding rates, the cash-and-carry basis trade, and market making, before finishing on the forces that shape the desk: spot ETFs, custody and prime brokerage, counterparty risk after FTX, and the regulatory landscape.
Throughout, the goal is interview readiness. Each lesson builds the intuition on a plain, everyday example first, then maps it onto the trading desk, with worked numerical examples and a clear sense of how the topic shows up in an interview. The content is the theory behind the technology and the market, the same information scattered across the internet, gathered and organised so you do not have to hunt for it.
Whether you are targeting a quant trading or research role with a crypto mandate, or you just want a grounded, current picture of how digital-asset markets work, this course gets you prepared and keeps you up to date with a market that keeps moving.