Date Quiz
(Due by Date)
Asynchronous Lecture Video
(Watch by Date)
Synchronous Lecture
(At 10:30 AM on Date)
09/02 None No class
None
09/09 None Introduction and Overview of DeFi
[Premiere] [Playlist]
[IN-PERSON] Dawn Song: DeFi Overview
Watch Recording
Slides
09/16 Quiz 1 Introduction to Blockchain Technology
[Premiere] [Playlist]
[ONLINE] Will Cong (Cornell): Introduction to Web3 Economics and Oracle Networks
Watch Recording
Slides
09/23 Quiz 2 Introduction to Traditional Finance
[Premiere] [Playlist]
[IN-PERSON] Christine Parlour: Introduction to Traditional Finance
Watch Recording
Slides
09/30 Quiz 3 Introduction to Smart Contracts
[Premiere] [Playlist]
[ONLINE] Andrew Miller (UIUC): The use of Trusted Execution Environments (TEE) in DeFi
Watch Recording
Slides
10/07 Quiz 4 DEX
[Premiere] [Playlist]
[IN-PERSON] Peter Nobel
10/14 Quiz 5 Oracles
[Premiere] [Playlist]
[ONLINE] Ari Juels (Cornell): The Oracle: A Crypto Thriller Novel
Watch Recording
Slides
10/21 Quiz 6 Decentralized Lending
[Premiere] [Playlist]
[IN-PERSON] Sandro Herbig and Alex Blania (Worldcoin): System Overview of the World Project
10/28 Quiz 7 Stablecoins
[Playlist]
[ONLINE] Fan Zhang (Yale): (De)centralization of Ethereum's builder market
Watch Recording
Slides
11/04 Quiz 8 Privacy on the Blockchain
[Premiere] [Playlist]
[ONLINE] Arthur Gervais (UCL): Oracles and Censorship
Watch Recording
Slides
11/11 None No class (Veterans Day)
None
11/18 Quiz 9 DeFi Security I
[Premiere] [Playlist]
[IN-PERSON] Christine Parlour: Synthetics, Derivatives and Tokenized Assets
Watch Recording
Slides
11/25 Quiz 10 DeFi Security II
[Premiere] [Playlist]
[IN-PERSON] David Schwartz (Ripple): Building the Bridge Between DeFi and TradFi for a Secure and Scalable Financial System
12/02 Quiz 11 Decentralized Identities
[Premiere] [Playlist]
Project presentation (no synchronous lecture)