The three jobs money does, why fiat works on trust alone, and the gap crypto claims to fill.

A share is a slice of a company — ownership, a claim on profits, and a vote. The TradFi primitive crypto keeps comparing itself to.

Bid, ask, and the matching engine — how every exchange (TradFi or crypto CEX) actually sets a price.

A database thousands of strangers maintain together, where no one can quietly edit the past — the substrate all of DeFi runs on.

A wallet doesn't hold coins — it holds the keys that prove they're yours. Lose the key, lose the funds. There is no reset.

ERC-20 made every token speak the same language — the standard that turned Ethereum into a financial Lego set.

The honest comparison: where tokens rhyme with stocks, where the analogy quietly breaks, and what's genuinely new.