Course Overview
Building Bitcoin and Stablecoin Payout Products: A Practical Guide for Product Managers
Course Introduction
Welcome to Building Bitcoin and Stablecoin Payout Products: A Practical Guide for Product Managers.
This course is built for a new generation of product managers: PMs who will lead products that move real money — Bitcoin, stablecoins, and fiat — safely, transparently, and globally.
Building payment and payout systems is not like building SaaS. It is more demanding. Mistakes cost users real money. Scaling errors destroy companies.
Bitcoin and stablecoins bring even more complexity — volatility, irreversible payments, liquidity fragmentation — but also incredible opportunity to:
Move money faster
Serve users globally
Bypass traditional banking limitations
Build truly financial-resilient products
Why This Course Matters
Today, almost no formal training exists for PMs building Bitcoin and stablecoin-powered payout products. Most PMs are left to "figure it out" — and learn only through mistakes, downtime, or liquidity crises.
This course exists to change that.
You will learn:
How Bitcoin and stablecoins change payout product architecture
How to design funding, settlement, and liquidity systems
How to think about treasury, compliance, volatility, and risk
How to measure success based on what actually matters in money movement products
You won't just learn how to manage APIs.
You will learn how to build real financial infrastructure.
Course Format
12 Core Modules
Each module = ~10–15 minutes of content
Each module ends with a PM Action Checklist (apply immediately)
A Capstone Project at the end:
Design a Bitcoin/Stablecoin Powered Payout MVP
You can complete the course at your own pace — but mastery comes from applying, not just reading.
Full Course Topics Summary
| Module | Title | Description |
|---|---|---|
1 | Why Moving Money is Different From Moving Data | Understand why moving money demands a fundamentally different mindset, architecture, and operational discipline compared to moving data. |
2 | Bitcoin and Stablecoins: Product Opportunities and Risks | Explore how Bitcoin and stablecoins change payout products: settlement finality, volatility, liquidity, and operational advantages. |
3 | Custodial vs Dynamic Funding Models: Core Product Decisions | Analyze the product tradeoffs between wallet-funded models and on-the-fly dynamic funding settlement. |
4 | Building a Full Payout Lifecycle: Quotes, Funding, Processing, Completion | Break down the step-by-step structure of a payout: quoting, payment, asset confirmation, fiat processing, settlement. |
5 | Error Handling in Money Movement Products | Master failure modes like expired quotes, underpayments, payout rejections — and design robust user and system recovery flows. |
6 | Managing User Expectations: Speed, Fees, Success Rates | Learn how to honestly and effectively communicate transaction speed, fees, FX risks, and payout uncertainties to users. |
7 | Treasury and Liquidity 101 for PMs (Without Becoming a CFO) | Understand how liquidity buffers, float management, volatility hedging, and funding forecasting affect payout product success. |
8 | Security Principles for Bitcoin and Stablecoin Payouts | Identify the critical security measures needed to protect users and operations in a payout infrastructure. |
9 | Onboarding, KYC/KYB, and Compliance in Payout Systems | Design user and business onboarding flows that balance regulatory requirements with product growth and UX. |
10 | KPIs and Metrics for Measuring Payout Product Success | Define the real metrics that matter in payout systems: liquidity efficiency, time-to-settlement, payout success rates, and cost per payout. |
11 | Advanced Topics: Circular Economies, Regional Differences | Understand how Bitcoin circular economies evolve and how payout corridor behavior differs across Africa, Asia, LATAM, and emerging markets. |
12 | Final Reflection: Operating Principles for Bitcoin and Stablecoin Payment PMs | Summarize the operating discipline, product ethos, and long-term mindset required to build and maintain Bitcoin-powered payout products. |
Who Should Take This Course
Product Managers building fintech, crypto, remittance, or merchant payout products.
Startup founders designing global payment products.
Engineering leads wanting to better understand product strategy in payouts.
Treasury and Ops managers scaling Bitcoin- and stablecoin-powered financial systems.
You do not need to be an engineer.
You do need to think like an owner:
Responsible for moving real money under real pressure.
What You Will Build
By the end of this course, you will have:
Designed a full Bitcoin or stablecoin payout flow
Structured treasury and liquidity plans
Modeled payout funding and completion timelines
Set up error handling and webhook monitoring strategies
Defined success KPIs for a real-world payout product.
You will have real, actionable skill — not just theoretical knowledge.
Final Opening Reflection
Bitcoin and stablecoins don't just offer faster money. They demand better product managers.
This course is how you become one of them.
If you're ready, we'll begin with Module 1: Why Moving Money is Different From Moving Data.
