Earn Crypto with Learn-and-Earn Programs

No — Coinbase discontinued Learning Rewards on May 27, 2025, per its own Help Center. The page now tells former users to try staking instead. Old quiz links no longer pay out.

Binance Learn & Earn, CoinMarketCap Learn & Earn, KuCoin Learn & Earn, and Bybit's Learn & Trade Growth Hub all still run campaigns in 2026. Each requires KYC and most exclude US users. Kraken Learn is education only — it pays nothing.

Most live programs block US residents. CoinMarketCap explicitly lists the US and its territories as excluded. Binance.US does not run the same quizzes as global Binance, and KuCoin and Bybit restrict US accounts in practice.

Most quizzes pay between $1 and $20 in token vouchers, and many cap participants at the first 5,000 finishers. A realistic ceiling is $20 to $50 across all live programs in a given month. It is not a job — it is a small bonus for learning.

Yes — in the US the IRS treats free crypto rewards as ordinary income at the fair market value on the day you receive them. You then owe capital gains on any change in value when you sell. Keep a record of each voucher and its USD value.

No, not any more. Coinbase discontinued its Learning Rewards program on May 27, 2025. That page now directs users to try staking instead. Coinbase no longer pays users to complete educational quizzes as of that date.

Yes — Binance runs a Learn & Earn program with rotating monthly campaigns on Binance.com. Past campaigns have included BTC-focused quizzes. The program is not available to US residents on Binance.US, which does not run the same curriculum. Binance.com campaigns cap the number of finishers, so early entry matters.

No — Kraken has an educational section called Kraken Learn, but it is educational-only and does not pay users to complete lessons. To earn on Kraken you need to trade or stake, both of which require depositing funds first.

No — Coinbase's sign-up bonus is a referral reward that requires a qualifying purchase, not a no-deposit gift. The separate Learning Rewards program was discontinued on May 27, 2025. New Coinbase users can earn through staking, but that requires depositing crypto and is not a free reward.

No, and any 'quiz answers PDF' or 'today's answers' page you find is not something you should trust, because quiz questions and their correct answers rotate per exchange and per campaign — Binance, KuCoin, Bybit, and CoinMarketCap each write their own questions and swap them out whenever a new token campaign launches. A published answer list is only ever a snapshot of one specific campaign at one moment, and by the time you find it the quiz has often already changed, been retired, or hit its finisher cap, so acting on a stale answer key can cost you the attempt entirely. The reliable approach is to actually read the short lesson each quiz is drawn from — the questions are deliberately simple and pulled straight from that lesson's content, so a few minutes of reading answers the quiz correctly without depending on someone else's outdated notes.

Robinhood has periodically run its own sign-up or referral crypto promotions for new brokerage accounts, but this works differently from the exchange quiz model covered above, since it isn't a learn-and-earn program with lessons and a quiz. Robinhood Gold, its paid subscription tier, has sometimes come with separate promotional terms layered on top of the standard account offer. Promotion terms, eligible coins, and amounts change often and vary by signup channel, so check Robinhood's own current promotions page before assuming a specific offer still applies.

No, a wallet like Phantom does not pay you for holding or using it. Phantom is a self-custody wallet for the Solana network, not an earn program, so any reward you receive through it comes from a separate source, most often a Solana ecosystem airdrop that pays wallets based on real on-chain activity like swapping or bridging. See /free/crypto-airdrops for how that qualification actually works and how to avoid fake claim pages that target wallet users directly.