Concepts

Web3 Academy treats DeFi as one connected system. Begin with the execution and settlement substrate, then follow assets into financial primitives, packaged products, and their failure paths.

• Foundations — blockchain state, authorization, execution, finality, and bridges.
• Money and assets — direct assets, tokens, backing, and claims.
• Trading — exchange, liquidity, price formation, and inventory risk.
• Lending — collateral, debt, interest, liquidation, and bad debt.
• Derivatives — margin, funding, contingent exposure, and hedging.
• Staking — consensus participation, rewards, slashing, and layered staking claims.
• Products and vaults — strategies, shares, NAV, fees, and packaged positions.
• Supporting systems — market information, oracles, governance, incentives, treasuries, cover, and bridges.
• Risk — failure mechanisms, loss propagation, and security properties.

Every concept page keeps beginner explanation, practitioner context, and engineer or auditor boundaries in static HTML. Structured concept entries own reusable categories, prerequisites, relationships, risks, and security properties so future maps and learning paths derive from the same validated source.