Crypto & Money Basics
Start from zero: what money is, what cryptocurrency is and the problem it solves, how a blockchain works, and what a wallet is.
Courses
Pick a course and work through the lessons in order. Each level builds on the last.
Beginner courses
What Is Monero?
What Monero is, why it's unique, where it came from, and the ideas — privacy and fungibility — that set it apart.
Your First Monero Wallet
Everything about wallets and keys: the wallet types, public vs private (spend and view) keys, your seed phrase, and how to create, receive and send safely.
Security & Self-Custody
Hold your own Monero safely: the self-custody mindset, securing your seed, passphrases, spotting scams, backups, and inheritance.
Spending Monero in the Real World
How to actually use your Monero day to day: paying merchants that accept XMR, finding places to spend, gift cards and prepaid cards, swapping to pay Bitcoin-only merchants, everyday categories like VPNs and travel, and keeping your spending private and safe.
Troubleshooting & Common Mistakes
The problems people actually hit — a pending transaction, a wallet that won't sync, a zero balance after restoring, locked funds, sending to the wrong place, and swap issues — plus a checklist to avoid the common mistakes in the first place.
Intermediate courses
Getting Monero
Every way to get XMR — exchanges, no-KYC instant swaps, peer-to-peer, earning and mining — and how to choose based on privacy.
Swapping Monero
Everything you need to convert other crypto into Monero (and back) without an account: how swaps work, doing one step by step, picking a trustworthy service, and understanding rates, fees and the privacy picture.
How Monero Works
The technology behind the privacy: what a Monero output actually is, stealth addresses, ring signatures, RingCT, network privacy, confirmations and fees — explained simply.
Using Monero in Practice
The day-to-day skills: checking your transactions without a public explorer, subaddresses, payment proofs, paying with XMR, and using a node over Tor.
Monero Hardware: Nodes & Devices
Run Monero on real hardware: plug-and-play node appliances like MoneroNodo, building your own node on a Raspberry Pi, using your hardware node day to day, and hardware wallets for key storage.
Mining Monero
Earn XMR with your CPU: how RandomX mining works, solo vs pool, P2Pool, and what to consider before you start.
Accepting Monero as a Business
The merchant's side of the circular economy: why a business would accept XMR, how to price and handle volatility, in-person and online payment setups, converting and managing cash flow, and refunds, records and day-to-day operations. Practical, not tax or legal advice.
Monero, Records & the Regulatory Landscape
An educational, international overview — not tax or legal advice. How Monero combines privacy with owner-controlled transparency (view keys and payment proofs), the idea of keeping your own records, and a neutral, descriptive look at how regulators and exchanges approach privacy assets. Rules vary by country and change; consult a qualified professional in your jurisdiction.
Advanced courses
Privacy Best Practices
Use Monero well: threat modeling, network privacy, avoiding metadata leaks, the truth about churning, and real-world OPSEC.
Coin Control & Advanced Wallet Use
Take full control: how outputs work, managing them to avoid linking, dusting attacks, multisig, hardware/cold storage, and watch-only auditing.
Running & Operating a Node
Go beyond using a node to operating one: run a public remote node over Tor for the community, read live network stats like fees and circulating supply, and prune your blockchain to save space.
Monero Internals: Cryptography & Protocol Deep Dive
For people who find the rest too easy. The real math and machinery: the Ed25519 group and key derivation, stealth-address ECDH, CLSAG ring signatures and key images, RingCT with Pedersen commitments and Bulletproofs+, the byte-level anatomy of a transaction, and RandomX, block weight and the fee algorithm. Ends with a brutal quiz.
Monero Protocol Engineering: For Contributors
The level a Monero core or research contributor is expected to know. Implementation-grade detail: the Ed25519 cofactor-8 pitfalls and point validation, decoy selection and the output-age distribution, CLSAG's exact aggregated construction, the Bulletproofs+ weighted inner-product argument, multisig with the Janus and burning-bug edge cases, and the Seraphis/Jamtis/FCMP++ roadmap. Ends with a quiz built to gate real contributors.
Building on Monero: Developer Integrations
For developers: build your own Monero integration — a wallet, a BTCPay-style payment processor, or an instant-swap exchange — using monerod, the daemon RPC, monero-wallet-rpc, accounts and subaddresses, watch-only and hot/cold wallets, and light-wallet servers. By the end you understand how Cake Wallet, BTCPay and swap services are actually built, and could build your own.
The Math of Monero: Cryptography Across Blockchains
The mathematics every cryptocurrency shares — finite fields, elliptic curves, the discrete-log problem, hashes and signatures — and exactly where Monero re-points that same toolkit from 'reveal and audit' to 'prove and conceal'. A comparative tour across Bitcoin, Ethereum, Zcash and Monero: same skeleton, different choices. By the end you can read any chain's math and name what it hides and how.
How Monero Is Attacked — and Defends
The adversary's perspective on Monero privacy, and the defenses for each attack: the threat model, the pre-RingCT traceability lessons, decoy-flooding and poisoned-output (EAE) attacks, timing and transaction-graph analysis, network-level de-anonymization, and a sober look at chain-analysis claims versus reality.