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Finance, trading, crypto, DeFi, taxes, and the legal side. Everything we work out building BASED in the open gets written down and posted here. No paywall, no upsell, no email gate. Read it, use it, keep it.

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markets & options

Selling premium, start to finish

live

The seller side of options in plain words. The greeks, selling premium, the wheel, position sizing, and the terms you keep hearing but never got explained. Every day we post two screenshots from a real account and read every number on them.

for: anyone who already trades theta and wants to actually understand it · not advice Start the course →

Reading a chart without fooling yourself

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Candles, volume, and liquidity taught straight, then the published evidence on how retail technical trading actually performs. A chart records the past. Nobody sells you the future.

for: anyone who feels smarter after drawing a trend line · not advice Read the guide →

Position sizing, or how not to blow up

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Risk of ruin, drawdown math, and why sizing beats being right. Down 50% needs up 100% to get back. The math that keeps accounts alive, computed and shown, not asserted.

for: anyone who has ever doubled down to win it back · not advice Read the guide →
taxes & law

Keep what you make

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Taxes for traders in plain english. Short-term vs long-term, the 60/40 rule, wash sales, crypto events, quarterlies, and a set-aside calculator so the bill never surprises you.

for: anyone who had a green year and got a scary bill · not advice Read the guide →

Entities, structure, and the legal side

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LLCs, trader tax status, 475(f) mark-to-market, the S-corp move, how accounts get structured, and the snake oil that doesn't hold up. The stuff people pay a lawyer to explain once, with a TTS self-check built in.

for: anyone being sold an LLC as a tax hack · not advice Read the guide →
how the bots work

Copy Scout

paper

How the Polymarket copy screener tells skilled leaders from lucky ones. Out-of-sample testing, survivorship bias, and the delay tax of copying a trade after the fact. The honest story of why most great-looking leaders fail the screen.

for: anyone curious how copy-trading actually gets vetted · paper only How it works →

Polymarket 5-min

paper

The risk-free pair strategy, market-making, and inventory risk, plus the honest story of what happened when we cost-loaded every fill. Spoiler: the edge got a lot smaller.

for: anyone who wants to see a strategy tested with real costs · paper only How it works →

Meme Sniper

paper

Anti-rug screening on pump.fun, why 99% of launches get rejected, and sniping framed as an auction and infrastructure problem. Modeled with failed-transaction costs and depth-adjusted exits.

for: anyone who wants to understand launch risk before touching it · paper only How it works →
build & automation

Automate your video editing

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Eight lessons on the pipeline that turns a folder of raw footage into edited cuts, captioned shorts, and a tweet draft. ffmpeg, Whisper, and Python, every step explained so you can build your own.

for: anyone who shoots more than they can edit · code included Start the course →

Dev resources

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The $BASED contract, the APIs, and step-by-step ways to verify every number yourself or build on top. Nothing here asks you to trust us. Check the receipts.

for: developers and anyone who wants to audit the numbers Open resources →
crypto & defi

Crypto, from first wallet to first swap

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Wallets, keys, swaps, and staying safe on-chain, taught the way it gets taught in person. Phantom install to first swap, plus the exact ways people lose everything. Plain words, nothing to buy.

for: anyone touching a wallet for the first time · not advice Read the guide →

DeFi, past the buzzwords

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Liquidity, lending, yield, and where the risk actually hides. The math worked out, the honest question to ask about any yield, and a graveyard of real losses to learn on.

for: anyone being quoted an APY they can't explain · not advice Read the guide →

Self-custody vs the exchange

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Your coins never leave the chain. Keys sign, chains record, and the only real question is who holds the key. What Mt. Gox, FTX, and Celsius actually cost people, with the receipts.

for: anyone with more on a platform than they can afford to lose · not advice Read the guide →

Spot the rug

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Rug pulls, honeypots, wallet drainers, and address poisoning. How each one works mechanically, real documented losses with dates, and the checks that catch most of them before you click.

for: anyone who has ever aped into anything · defensive education Read the guide →

Stablecoins and moving money

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What actually backs a dollar token, the weekends the big ones broke, and how people really move money on them. Attestation is not an audit, and the difference matters.

for: anyone parking real money in a "stable" anything · not advice Read the guide →

Educational content only. Not financial, legal, or tax advice. The trading pages describe strategies and real accounts so the community can follow along in the open. Nothing here is a recommendation or a signal to copy any trade. Markets carry real risk, including losses. Trade your own plan and talk to a licensed professional before making decisions.

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