2025: Looking Back, Moving Forward

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The Accountant Quits is a deliberately provocative name. It’s a call to evolve, because as businesses move onchain, so do the accountants. 

In 2025, more businesses adopted digital assets and stablecoins, and The Accountant Quits was there to accompany their educational transition. 

We didn’t just ship courses. We built a community platform, a place for curious, serious professionals to wrestle with the real problems of web3 accounting and finance.

And we didn’t stop there.

We took conversations offline through our first IRL events, while continuing to publish podcasts, articles, and workshops designed to meet professionals where they actually are.

As we look back on 2025, we’re taking stock of what actually mattered: how the industry shifted, how we adapted, and the lessons that shaped our work. Heading into 2026, it’s worth pausing to acknowledge the progress, and why we’re better prepared for what’s ahead.

Hands-On Crypto Education

In 2025, education stayed at the core of what we do, but we raised the bar.

We ran 3 live cohorts of the Crypto Accounting Academy, helping accounting and finance professionals learn how to implement crypto sub-ledgers, book on-chain transactions correctly, structure web3 entities, and build accounting processes that actually hold up in the real world.

Tom Mayes, ex-CFO at ONE.io , said it best: “This course should be the standard for any accountant in web3.”

In 2025 alone, professionals from Starknet Foundation, Magic Eden, CoinTracker, Dune, Ogier, Babylon Labs, Akash Network, RSM, CowDAO, and many others joined our cohorts, not to “learn crypto”, but to operate confidently in it.

We also hit an important milestone. The Crypto Accounting Academy was recognized as a Continuing Professional Education (CPE) Sponsor by NASBA and accredited by The CPD Group, allowing students to earn up to 20 CPD/CPE credits upon graduation. Credibility matters, and we took it seriously.

And as the industry matured, it became clear that accounting was only part of the problem.

Managing a crypto treasury remains uncharted territory for most CFOs and finance leaders. So we launched the Crypto Treasury Management Academy, the first program of its kind designed to help teams allocate capital, manage risk, and protect on-chain treasuries with discipline instead of guesswork.

Looking ahead, Crypto Accounting Academy Cohort 8 begins on January 15, followed by Crypto Treasury Management Academy Cohort 2 on February 11.

Come for the Courses but Stay for the Community

In the age of AI, information is cheap. People aren’t short on content, they’re short on context, judgement, and real conversations. That’s why community matters more than ever.

In 2025, we moved beyond a private Telegram group and launched a full-fledged community platform open to finance professionals who want to engage seriously with crypto and web3. Not tourists. People who actually want to understand how their organizations can adopt digital assets.

If you’re looking to make a career leap into web3 accounting or finance, you don’t need more theory, you need proximity to people who’ve already done it. Inside the community, you’ll find professionals who’ve made that transition and are willing to share what actually worked: how to position yourself, which mistakes to avoid, and which skill gaps are worth fixing first.

Access isn’t accidental. Every member goes through a structured onboarding process, including an onboarding call, to make sure the quality of conversations stays high.

Inside the platform, members get access to:

• A curated member directory, filterable by location
• Chat groups for crypto accounting, treasury, tax and tooling discussions
• A remote-only job board focused on web3 finance roles
• Monthly CPD/CPE workshops
• A mobile app for on-the-go learning and discussions
• On-demand courses (coming soon)

As one alumni put it: “The course had a really good agenda, but it was even more impactful because of the community that formed around it.”

Courses teach skills. Communities create momentum.

And through this platform, we’re doing exactly that, driving collaboration, shared learning, and real-world adoption of digital assets across finance teams.

To access our community platform, you can join the ‘Free Memberships’ here, and go through our onboarding process.

IRL Events

Digital may dominate, but real relationships are still built offline. IRL events create something online spaces can’t fully replicate: focused conversations, shared context, and the space to think through real problems together.

For finance professionals in web3, that’s the real value: direct feedback on tooling and open conversations with peers facing the same crypto accounting problems.

We hosted IRL events across Denver, Dubai, Cannes, London, and Singapore, bringing together finance leaders, accountants, and operators from across the web3 ecosystem.

We also launched two new formats:

• PR1ME: a private dinner series curated for senior finance leaders in web3, designed for high-signal conversations and long-term relationship building.
  
  
• Offchain Circle: a full-day, community-led format where participants are part of the discussions, workshops, and problem-solving, not passive panel listeners.

As Allen Au, Controller at Mysten Labs, put it: “Events like Pr1me are one of the most important vehicles to building relationships for financial professionals”

Looking ahead, our next IRL event takes place during Crypto Cayman Week on February 11. If you want to join us, you can sign up here.

What’s next in 2026

Back in 2021, we started with a simple belief: blockchain isn’t a trend, it’s an evolution of financial infrastructure. And over time, more organizations will operate using stablecoins and digital assets as a default, not an exception.

That means if you are an accounting and finance professional, you will have to upskill to remain relevant.

In 2025, digital assets became a more integral part of how value moves globally. That creates a real opportunity. Specializing in crypto accounting and treasury management isn’t a niche move, it’s a way to future-proof your career for years to come.

It’s a privilege for us to accompany you through that transition. In 2026, you can expect more hands-on courses, more IRL and community events, and more practical educational resources, all designed for professionals who want to stay ahead of where finance is going.

To our instructors, partners, students and curious readers/listeners: thanks for walking this road with us.

The best is yet to come.