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crypto-education-en-corpus

url stringlengths 26 127	title stringlengths 2 103	markdown stringlengths 619 44.5k	word_count int64 100 7.26k	source stringclasses 7 values	related_topics stringlengths 2 1.18k
https://www.investopedia.com/terms/g/gas-ethereum.asp	Understanding Ethereum Gas Fees: Their Role and Calculation	Gas fees on the Ethereum blockchain are essential for conducting transactions and executing contracts. Priced in gwei, smaller fractions of Ethereum's cryptocurrency, ETH, these fees compensate validators for the resources expended during transaction processing. The price of gas fluctuates based on supply, demand, and ...	894	investopedia.com	[]
https://www.investopedia.com/non-fungible-tokens-nft-5115211	Non-Fungible Token (NFT): What It Means and How It Works	Non-fungible tokens (NFTs) are assets like artworks, digital content, or videos that have been tokenized via a blockchain. Tokens are unique identification codes created from metadata via an encryption function. These tokens are then stored on a digital ledger, while the assets themselves are stored in other places. Th...	1,821	investopedia.com	[]
https://academy.binance.com/en/articles/5-common-cryptocurrency-scams-and-how-to-avoid-them	5 Common Cryptocurrency Scams and How to Avoid Them	is an incredibly valuable asset to criminals. It’s liquid, highly portable and, once a transaction has been made, it’s almost impossible to revert it. As a result, a wave of scams (both decades-old classics and cryptocurrency-specific swindles) has flooded the digital realm. It’s amazing, nowadays, how everyone seems ...	1,378	academy.binance.com	[]
https://academy.binance.com/en/articles/what-are-smart-contracts	What Are Smart Contracts and How Do They Work?	is a self-executing digital agreement written in code and stored on a blockchain. It can operate without the need for intermediaries, leveraging blockchain technology for increased security and transparency, providing users with a way to enforce agreements and streamline various processes. Smart contracts are particula...	1,203	academy.binance.com	[]
https://www.coinbase.com/learn/crypto-basics/what-is-a-crypto-wallet	What is a crypto wallet? \| Coinbase	Crypto wallets are designed to store your private key, keeping your crypto accessible at all times. They also allow you to send, receive, and spend cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin and Ethereum. Unlike a normal wallet, which can hold actual cash, crypto wallets technically don’t store your crypto. Your holdings live on th...	990	coinbase.com	[]
https://www.investopedia.com/terms/a/altcoin.asp	Understanding Altcoins: Types, Benefits, and Market Potential	Altcoins represent all cryptocurrencies and tokens that are not Bitcoin, with some interpretations excluding Ethereum from this category. They're crafted by developers with unique visions, often using distinct consensus mechanisms. These digital currencies attempt to build on the limitations of Bitcoin or craft new fun...	1,242	investopedia.com	[]
https://www.investopedia.com/terms/c/cold-storage.asp	Cold Storage: What It Is, How It Works, Theft Protection	A "cold wallet" is a device or method for storing cryptocurrency private keys offline. Private keys are transferred from a device with an internet connection to a device without one. Businesses, governments, and individuals have used this data security technique for several decades to keep data inaccessible or save it ...	1,487	investopedia.com	[]
https://academy.binance.com/en/articles/a-guide-to-crypto-collectibles-and-non-fungible-tokens-nfts	What Is An NFT?	* NFTs are stored on the blockchain, which means they can't be easily edited, copied or duplicated. There, they can act as a publicly verifiable proof of ownership on a decentralized database. The term “non-fungible” refers to the irreplaceable nature of an item. A non-fungible item cannot be directly exchanged for an...	1,127	academy.binance.com	[]
https://www.coinbase.com/learn/crypto-basics/what-is-proof-of-work-or-proof-of-stake	What is "proof of work" or "proof of stake"? \| Coinbase	“Proof of work” and “proof of stake” are the two major consensus mechanisms cryptocurrencies use to verify new transactions, add them to the blockchain, and create new tokens. Proof of work, first pioneered by Bitcoin, uses mining to achieve those goals. Proof of stake — which is employed by Cardano, the ETH2 blockchai...	1,083	coinbase.com	[]
https://www.investopedia.com/tech/what-dao/	Decentralized Autonomous Organization (DAO): Definition, Purpose, and Example	A decentralized autonomous organization (DAO) is an organizational structure with no central governing body. DAOs, which were popularized by enthusiasts. have members who share a common goal of acting in the community's best interests. They are completely and make decisions using a bottom-up management approach. Digi...	1,527	investopedia.com	[]
https://www.coinbase.com/learn/crypto-basics/what-is-a-private-key	What is a private key? \| Coinbase	When you first buy cryptocurrency, you are issued two keys: a public key, which works like an email address (meaning you can safely share it with others, allowing you to send or receive funds), and a private key, which is typically a string of letters and numbers (and which is not to be shared with anyone). You can thi...	919	coinbase.com	[]
https://academy.binance.com/en/articles/the-evolution-of-the-internet-web-3-0-explained	What Is Web3 and Why Does It Matter?	The Internet is a constantly evolving technology that continues to innovate. So far, we’ve experienced Web 1.0 and 2.0, and there’s much discussion of what to expect from Web3. Web 1.0 provided a static experience for users without the ability to create the content-rich sites we have today. Web 2.0 brought us together ...	1,726	academy.binance.com	[]
https://academy.binance.com/en/articles/the-complete-beginners-guide-to-decentralized-finance-defi	What Is Decentralized Finance (DeFi)?	* While Ethereum was DeFi's original home, most blockchains with smart contract capabilities now host DeFi DApps, including layer-2 solutions like Arbitrum and Optimism. Smart contracts are essential to the services DeFi offers, which include staking, investing, lending, harvesting, and more. * DeFi allows people to ...	1,592	academy.binance.com	[]
https://www.coinbase.com/learn/crypto-basics/what-is-volatility	What is volatility? \| Coinbase	Volatility is a measure of how much the price of an asset has moved up or down over time. Generally, the more volatile an asset is, the riskier it’s considered to be as an investment — and the more potential it has to offer either higher returns or higher losses over shorter periods of time than comparatively less vola...	822	coinbase.com	[]
https://www.coinbase.com/learn/crypto-basics/what-is-a-token	What is a token? \| Coinbase	Technically, “token” is just another word for “cryptocurrency” or “cryptoasset.” But increasingly it has taken on a couple of more specific meanings depending on context. The first is to describe all cryptocurrencies Bitcoin and Ethereum (even though they are technically also tokens). The second is to describe certain ...	1,171	coinbase.com	[]
https://www.investopedia.com/terms/p/proof-stake-pos.asp	Understanding Proof-of-Stake: How PoS Transforms Cryptocurrency	Proof-of-Stake (PoS) revolutionizes the way cryptocurrencies process transactions and build new blocks by utilizing a consensus mechanism that relies on randomly selected validators, rather than the computationally intensive process seen in Proof-of-Work (PoW) systems. This method involves coin owners staking their cr...	1,036	investopedia.com	[]
https://academy.binance.com/en/articles/what-is-blockchain-and-how-does-it-work	What Is Blockchain and How Does It Work?	Blockchain technology has transformed industries, especially finance, by introducing a decentralized, transparent, and secure way of managing data and transactions. While it began as the foundation for cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin, its applications have grown to include supply chain management, healthcare, voting syst...	1,597	academy.binance.com	[]
https://www.investopedia.com/terms/s/smart-contracts.asp	Smart Contracts on Blockchain: Definition, Functionality, and Applications	A smart contract is a self-executing program that automates the actions required in a blockchain transaction. Once done, these transactions are traceable and cannot be undone. The best way to envision a smart contract is to think of a vending machine—when you insert the correct amount of money and push an item's button...	679	investopedia.com	[]
https://www.investopedia.com/terms/e/ethereum.asp	Ethereum Explained: Blockchain, Smart Contracts, and Its Future	Ethereum is a revolutionary global software platform driven by . Known for its native cryptocurrency, ether (ETH), Ethereum is pivotal in the world of blockchain and decentralized finance. It is designed to be scalable, programmable, secure, and decentralized, allowing anyone to develop secure digital technologies. Eth...	1,521	investopedia.com	[]
https://www.investopedia.com/terms/s/stablecoin.asp	Stablecoins Explained: Definitions, Mechanisms, and Types	* Stablecoins are a type of cryptocurrency designed to maintain a stable value by pegging to fiat currencies, commodities, or financial instruments, aiming to offer a less volatile alternative to cryptocurrencies like . Stablecoins, which can be found through , are designed to bridge the gap between the unpredictabili...	1,215	investopedia.com	[]

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Crypto Education Corpus (EN)

A curated educational corpus about cryptocurrency and blockchain technology, designed for building and evaluating RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) systems.

Source Distribution

Source	Documents	Share
iqwiki.com	2,379	68.2%
academy.binance.com	581	16.7%
kraken.com	183	5.2%
coinbase.com	125	3.6%
gemini.com	94	2.7%
ethereum.org	74	2.1%
investopedia.com	51	1.5%

Word Count Statistics

Metric	Value
Mean	1,021
Median	888
Min	100
Max	7,259

Schema

Column	Type	Description
`url`	string	Source URL of the document
`title`	string	Document title
`markdown`	string	Full text content in Markdown format
`word_count`	int	Number of words in the document
`depth`	int	Crawl depth (0 = seed page)
`source`	string	Source domain name
`related_topics`	list[string]	Related topic names extracted from internal wiki links (iqwiki.com docs only; 59% of docs have topics)

Data Collection

The corpus was built from multiple sources:

Web scraping (Round 1 & 2) — Educational pages from Investopedia, Coinbase Learn, Kraken Learn, Ethereum.org, Gemini Cryptopedia, and others, scraped using Crawl4AI with BFS deep crawl strategy
HuggingFace datasets — Filtered educational splits from distilled-ai/web3-oriented-pretraining-data (Binance Academy articles, IQ Wiki encyclopedia)

Quality Filters Applied

Minimum 100 words per document
Boilerplate detection (cookie/privacy/newsletter heavy pages removed)
URL-based deduplication (normalized: lowercase, stripped fragments/query params)
English language only
Listing/category pages removed (link-heavy pages with <50 words of actual content)
Raw bytecode/assembly pages removed
Markup cleanup: wiki-style internal links, citation markers, markdown links, and bare URLs stripped from text
Related topics metadata extracted from wiki links before cleanup

Usage

from datasets import load_dataset

ds = load_dataset("kskada/crypto-education-en-corpus")
df = ds["train"].to_pandas()

print(f"Documents: {len(df)}")
print(f"Sources: {df['source'].nunique()}")

Related Datasets

Golden evaluation set: kskada/crypto-education-en-golden-set — 497 Q&A pairs for RAG evaluation

Citation

If you use this dataset, please reference:

@dataset{konovalov2026crypto_corpus,
  title={Crypto Education Corpus (EN)},
  author={Konovalov, Kirill},
  year={2026},
  publisher={HuggingFace},
  url={https://huggingface.co/datasets/kskada/crypto-education-en-corpus}
}

License

MIT

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