As a beginner, it's crucial to approach with caution, understanding that while crypto offers fun opportunities, it also carries inherent risks such as price volatility, security concerns, and regulatory uncertainties, making it essential to educate yourself thoroughly before diving in.

If you're comfy using Coinbase, then you're well on your way to further explore the onchain world. You can continue to expand your knowledge of security best practices including hardware wallets, how to to buy tokens on a DEX, NFTs and more.

DeFi refers to decentralized financial services that are built on blockchain networks, such as Ethereum, or Solana. It includes things like borrowing and lending, NFTs, trading tokens, and insurance – all without the need for traditional financial intermediaries.

If you've already had some experience with DeFi there are many different directions you could take to continue exploring and building in this space – as a developer, founder, investor, or community member.

As a DeFi degen – someone who is deep in the DeFi weeds and understands all its secret language, there are several areas one might find interesting and challenging to explore including flash loans, arbitrage, LPing and more advanced yield farming.

Farcaster is a sufficiently decentralized social network. It is an open protocol that can support many clients, just like email.

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The home for web3 publishing. Built on web3 for web3, Mirror’s robust publishing platform pushes the boundaries of writing online—whether it’s the next big white paper or a weekly community update.

Mode is the Modular DeFi L2 building the Superchain alongside Optimism. The goal of Mode is to empower developers and users to grow an ecosystem of world-class applications and be directly rewarded for their contribution. Mode builds new onchain economic systems to enable developers to scale their applications, provide higher yields for users. If you have ever deployed to any EVM chains you can deploy to Mode quickly and easily.

Bebop, is an app and an API suite that brings seamless and efficient token trading in DeFi to everyone. Bebop offers confidence for every trade: best execution, guaranteed pricing, top security, industry leading reliability, alongside carefully crafted user and developer experience.

Smart DeFi Data Labelling and Analytics. Octav’s collaborative DeFi database streamlines your portfolio labeling, profit & loss reporting, and cross-chain tracking.

Ionic is a decentralised non-custodial money market protocol, supported by a comprehensive security monitoring and failsafe systems. Ionic gives users the complete control over their funds by providing best interest rates on Mode Network. With meticulously designed tokenonomics model, Ionic aims for robust and long-lasting growth, cultivating exemplary conduct among all participants for the collective benefit of every stakeholder.

Aave is a decentralized money market protocol where people can lend out their assets to earn interest, or borrow various cryptocurrencies against their deposited collateral. The protocol has a native token AAVE, which is used by its community to make collective decisions on the direction of the protocol.

The Yield Protocol. Yearn is a decentralized suite of products helping individuals, DAOs, and other protocols earn yield on their digital assets.

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Morpho Blue is a decentralized protocol enabling the overcollateralized lending and borrowing of crypto assets (ERC20 Tokens) on the Ethereum Virtual Machine. The protocol is implemented as an immutable smart contract, engineered to serve as a trustless base layer for lenders, borrowers, and applications.

Dune Analytics is a platform that provides tools for querying, visualizing, and sharing blockchain data. It allows users to create custom dashboards and analyses from a wide range of blockchain and DeFi data sources. The platform is widely used for its ability to offer deep insights into cryptocurrency markets, user behaviors, and protocol metrics, making complex data accessible and understandable for both technical and non-technical users.

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Fun, powerful, and secure wallets for everyday use. Rainbow is a fun, simple, and secure way to create an Ethereum wallet, collect NFTs, and explore the new world of Web3.

SEAL 911: A free 24/7 emergency hotline for help with incident response, vulnerability disclosure, or any other security problem. WHITEHAT SAFE HARBOR AGREEMENT: Legal protection and incentives for whitehats to rescue funds under active exploit. SEAL WARGAMES: Free red team exercises to help prepare your developers for the next war room.

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Easily and cheaply bridge $50 for up to 50 L2s in a single transaction. Perfect for funding your Zora and Base transactions. Gas.zip is the fastest one-stop gas refuel bridge for over 100+ chains and counting. Users can instantly bridge to multiple destination blockchains with a single inbound transaction. Gas.zip has a deposit contract deployed on Ethereum, Arbitrum, Optimism, Base, Polygon and Avalanche that splits a user's inbound deposit and instantly settles it across all selected destination chains.

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Opensea is an NFT exchange platform that allows users to buy and sell NFTs on the ethereum network.

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