EODHD Academy

Crypto Markets & Data

Crypto as a market — the 24/7 clock, fragmented venues and constructed prices, the perpetual future and its funding rate, and on-chain data with its limits stated honestly.

4 units · 16 lessons · 68 min read · plus hands-on practice, at your pace

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What actually changes when a market never closes?

A Market That Never Closes · 4 min read · practitioner

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Unit 1 A Market That Never Closes

  1. What actually changes when a market never closes? 4 min
  2. What happens to risk when nothing can be halted? 4 min
  3. Why is the weekend the thinnest part of the crypto week? 4 min
  4. How does crypto volatility compare with other asset classes? 4 min
Practice Check · Unit 1 A short check · cannot be failed Start

Unit 2 Venues & Fragmented Liquidity

  1. What are you actually trading on a centralised exchange versus a DEX? 4 min
  2. Why does the same coin have a different price on every exchange? 4 min
  3. If prices differ everywhere, why doesn't arbitrage close the gap? 4 min
  4. How much of the reported volume is real, and whose number is "the" price? 5 min
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Unit 3 Perpetuals & Funding

  1. What is a perpetual future, and why did crypto invent it? 5 min
  2. What is a funding rate, and why does it exist? 4 min
  3. What do positive and negative funding actually tell you? 4 min
  4. How does one liquidation become a cascade? 5 min
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Unit 4 On-Chain Data and Its Limits

  1. What can you see on-chain that no equity market lets you see? 4 min
  2. What do exchange inflows and outflows actually measure? 4 min
  3. What does realised value claim to know about cost basis? 4 min
  4. Crypto markets and data — course checkpoint 5 min
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Last Course exam

One exam, the whole course Unlocks when you have read all 16 lessons

Passing it earns the course certificate. It also counts toward the Builder track (course 8 of 13): pass every course exam in a track to earn its track certificate.