How to earn while you learn

“Earn crypto while learning about crypto” is the simple slogan of the educational portal from cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase.

In return for watching videos and taking quizzes on cryptocurrency projects whose tokens are listed on Coinbase, you can earn a small portion of that token.

For example, you can earn $6 of MKR tokens for learning about how Maker works, and an impressive $50 of XLM for learning about Stellar.

The table below shows that if you look at all the Learn and Earn courses Coinbase have ever supported and held on to the crypto rewards you have you would have made $460 as of January 18th 2022, with an aggregate price increase for all the coins rewarded of 58%.

Bear in mind that these figures will have come down since the All Time Highs hit by most cryptocurrencies in August 2021 but still show that with patience, you can earn significant sums of crypto over the long run just for learning about new projects.

Crypto	Date Added	Reward ($)	Value At  Launch	Value 18/01/2022	Reward 01/07/21	% Change
BAT	06/02/2019	10	0.1	0.98	98	880
ZEC	15/02/2019	3	51.43	133.06	7.76	158.72
XLM	26/03/2019	50	0.10	0.25	125	150
ZRX	01/04/2019	3	0.34	0.71	6.26	109
DAI	23/04/2019	20	1.00	1.00	20	0
EOS	01/06/2019	50	7.85	2.80	17.83	-64
XTZ	06/11/2019	6	1.31	3.95	18.27	205
OXT	18/12/2019	52	0.34	0.31	47.41	-9
COMP	23/07/2020	9	160.93	176.82	9.89	9.9
CELO	3/09/2020	6	4.32	4.45	6.18	3
MKR	01/10/2020	6	574.57	2,057	21.49	258
ALGO	16/11/2020	6	0.27	1.32	29.33	389
BAND	09/12/2020	3	6.65	5.10	2.30	-23
GRT	10/12/2020	3	0.27	0.53	5.89	96.30
FIL	10/12/2020	6	30.70	60.37	11.80	96.7
NU	21/01/2021	3	0.21	0.60	8.57	186
KNC	27/07/2020	6	1.37	1.55	6.79	13
NMR	26/02/2021	3	37.01	27.22	2.20	-26
UMA	26/03/2021	6	21.89	8.00	2.19	-63
FORTH	23/04/2021	3	39.41	7.13	0.54	-82
SKL	13/05/2021	3	0.47	0.15	0.96	-68
MATIC	19/05/2021	3	1.66	2.13	3.85	-28.3
AMP	11/06/2021	3	0.073	0.04	1.64	-45
BOND	28/06/2021	3	28.38	14.60	1.54	-47
CLV	16/07/2021	3	0.78	0.56	2.15	-28
FET	12/08/2021	3	0.49	0.45	2.76	-8
RLY	24/08/2021	3	0.58	0.33	1.71	-43
BAL	23/07/2021	3	18.65	15.57	2.50	-17
MLN	16/11/2021	3	116.62	73.7	1.90	-37
	Total	$291			$459.59	58%

Coinbase is a trusted and regulated US exchange now a publicly listed company, and thus the quality of the content on its educational portal is high. Unlike many of the bitcoin faucet sites on the web, Coinbase’s platform doesn’t feel spammy, and the information you will acquire through completing its educational primers is very useful.

$460
The profit as of January 18th, 2022 if you'd completed
 all Coinbase Learn free crypto campaigns

Not only this, but because of Coinbase’s influence, when it lists new coins it tends to have a very significant impact on their price, as a huge new audience are exposed to them, bringing volume. This has been estimated at an average of 91% increase in the price of newly listed coins over five days, according to Messari.

The relevance here is that Coinbase Earn and Learn campaigns go live in tandem with the coins being listed for trading.

91%
The average increase in price in the first five days 
of new coins listed on Coinbase