Joybites: crypto education for moms, by a mom.
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Day 44: What is Open Interest? (Reading the Market Like an Insider)
When I started this 100 Days of Crypto journey, all I wanted was to understand the basics.Wallets. Bridges. Gas fees.Just enough so I could survive conversations without smiling and pretending I knew what was going on. Then life took a turn. I unexpectedly landed a role in derivatives research, a space I never imagined myself…
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Day 43: Understanding Volatility, The Market’s Mood Swings
After connecting perps and options yesterday, the “now” behaviour and the “later” behaviour, I woke up still thinking about one question: “But what decides the mood of the market itself?” Because honestly, the market can be dramatic. Some days it sprints like it drank a triple espresso.Some days it moves like it’s half-asleep.Some days it…
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Day 42: The Moment I Realised Trading Isn’t Just About “Direction”
Something clicked in my brain today, the kind of small discovery that feels like you quietly unlocked a new level. It happened while I was reviewing my notes on perpetuals and options from my last two posts, trying to understand why they still felt like two different worlds even after breaking them down separately. Then…
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Day 41: What Are Options (The Insurance, Like Side of Crypto Trading)
The quieter cousin of perpetual futures, and the one that teaches you patience. In Day 40, we talked about perpetual futures, the “no-expiry” contracts that let you bet on price without owning the coin. Perps are loud, fast, emotional, and sometimes overwhelming, especially when leverage enters the picture. Today, we step into something a little…
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Day 40: What Are Perpetual Futures (The No-Expiry Trades Traders Love)
The “forever contract” that lets you bet on price without owning the coin. By now, we’ve talked about wallets, DEXs, staking, liquidity pools, yield farming, real yield, bridging, and gas tokens.All of those live in the spot world, you buy something, you own it, you hold it. Today, we step into a different room: the…
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Day 39: What Are Gas Tokens (And Why Some People Hoard Them)
The tiny coins that quietly control everything you do on-chain. Back in Day 15–17, we talked about gas fees, those little costs you pay every time you send, swap, or stake crypto. We said gas is like the “service fee” for using a blockchain, paid to the network so your transaction can be processed. But…
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Day 38: What Is Bridging (And Why It Feels Like an Airport Transfer)
How your crypto “flies” from one blockchain to another. By now, we’ve walked through wallets, DEXs, staking, liquidity pools, yield farming, and even real yield. One pattern keeps showing up: crypto doesn’t live in just one place anymore. There’s Ethereum.There’s Base.There’s Solana, Arbitrum, Polygon, BSC… Each one is like its own country with its own…
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Day 37: What is Real Yield?
When your earnings come from real activity, not magic numbers. Yesterday (Day 36), we learned about yield and yield farming: It was fun and exciting, but as we saw, not all yield is created equal. That’s why today we’re talking about real yield, the type of earnings that’s actually grounded in reality. Real Yield Starts…
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Day 36: What Is Yield Farming (and Why It Sounds More Complicated Than It Is)
Turning your liquidity into a working machine, and why patience matters. In Day 35, we talked about liquidity pools, the quiet engines that power decentralized exchanges. You learned how users deposit pairs of tokens so others can trade smoothly, earning a share of the fees in return. But then DeFi asked a tempting question: what…
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Day 35: What Are Liquidity Pools (and LP Tokens)
The quiet power behind every crypto swap. When we talked about DEXs back in Day 33, we said they let people trade crypto without banks, brokers, or middlemen. But that freedom raises a big question: if there’s no middleman, then who provides the money to make those swaps possible? Enter liquidity pools, the invisible engines…
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