Monero Academy

What it is. A free Monero education site published by the Monerica Project (the same operators behind the long-running monerica.com directory). The curriculum is split into three tiers — beginner, intermediate, advanced — with multi-lesson tracks covering money basics, what cryptocurrency is, how blockchains work, your first Monero wallet, security and self-custody, how to get XMR (exchanges vs no-KYC swaps vs P2P vs mining), how to swap Monero privately, threat modelling, network privacy with Tor and I2P, and avoiding metadata leaks. Each course track is bookended by quizzes you can take without an account. Optional login exists if you want to track progress; reading any lesson works fully logged-out.

Why Grade B. Listed at B on the strength of operator identity — the Monerica Project is a known good actor in the Monero ecosystem and one of the peer directories xmr.club itself cross-reads against. The curriculum structure (beginner → intermediate → advanced with explicit threat-modelling and metadata-leak coverage at the advanced tier) is the same shape we'd recommend if asked to design one from scratch. Grade A is withheld only because the site launched 2026-06-30 — there is no operational history yet, no community discussion of the lessons' factual accuracy, and the platform features (quizzes, progress tracking) have not been observed running over time.

Trust failure modes. This is read-only education. The site holds no funds, processes no payments, and the only account-state it can hold is *which-lessons-have-you-finished*. The real failure modes reduce to (a) the site being down (low cost), (b) a lesson rendering misleading or out-of-date information (UX-quality concern, not a custodial-risk concern), and (c) the optional account leaking the email you sign up with (mitigated by not creating an account, which is the default flow).

Sponsorship — how to read it. The homepage shows a *Featured Sponsors via Monerica* panel — the same sponsor pool that funds the parent directory also funds Monero Academy. That is the editorial-funding model disclosed up front, which is the honest way to do it: readers see which projects pay to be visible inside the educational frame rather than discovering an undisclosed pay-for-placement later. Reader judgement still applies — a featured-sponsor mention is editorial-supported, not an independent endorsement.

Operational specs.

• Live site: `https://moneroacademy.com`. SPA shell; lessons load without JavaScript for the most part.
• Course tracks identified: Crypto & Money Basics (beginner) · Your First Monero Wallet · Security & Self-Custody · Getting Monero (intermediate) · Swapping Monero · Privacy Best Practices (advanced, with threat modelling / network privacy / metadata leaks lessons).
• Operator: Monerica Project (`@MonericaProject` on X). The launch announcement (2026-06-30) explicitly frames the site as free and supported by the existing Monerica sponsor pool.
• Account: Optional. Default read flow needs no signup.
• Pricing: Free.
• Tor mirror: Not advertised at launch — readers using Tor reach the site via the clearnet host.

Path to A. Six months of operation without significant factual regressions or quiz-content errors, an independent peer-dir mention (kycnot.me's tools section, a Reddit / monero.town discussion thread, or a curator review elsewhere), and the lesson tracks staying current as FCMP++, Carrot, Seraphis, and Jamtis ship on Monero mainnet (the advanced tier needs to track those primitives accurately, not just describe RingCT + stealth addresses).