Learning Path

Blockchain and stablecoins, taught for payments people.

An interactive curriculum on how the new rails actually work — blockchains, stablecoins and on-chain data — written for pricing managers, analysts and strategy teams. Every concept maps onto something you already use daily; code appears as illustrations to read, not exercises to run.

Learning path

Blockchain for Payments Professionals

A technical learning path for pricing managers, analysts and strategy people who need to read on-chain data without becoming developers. Code appears as illustrations to read, not exercises to run — every concept maps onto a payments equivalent you already use daily.

3 of 4 chapters published

  1. 01The plumbing: what a blockchain transaction actually isDraft

    Send one payment through a local sandbox chain, then dissect its signed instruction, receipt, block and logs — the primitive records behind every stablecoin dashboard and on-chain payment claim.

    11 September 2026 · 18 min read

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  2. 02Same tools, real money: reading Ethereum mainnetDraft

    Point the exact same commands at Ethereum mainnet and read it directly — no explorer, no vendor dashboard. Dissect a real USDC transfer from raw bytes, decode live stablecoin movements from the newest block, catch fresh USDC being minted, and collect the single most important caveat in stablecoin analytics.

    11 September 2026 · 17 min read

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  3. 03Reading the chain with codeDraft

    Same blockchain, same data — but now a program fetches it. Balances, receipts and event logs read programmatically with a five-layer stack that maps onto any payments API, and why a raw “stablecoin volume” figure built from those logs is one of the most misleading numbers in the industry.

    11 September 2026 · 16 min read

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