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] Reading: CeFi vs. DeFi Reading: DeFi SoK Reading: Schär, F., 2021	[IN-PERSON] Dawn Song: DeFi Overview Watch Recording Slides
09/16	Quiz 1	Introduction to Blockchain Technology [Premiere] [Playlist] Reading: Lightning Network Reading: Multi-Path Routing Reading: Rollup Reading: Bridges Reading: Bitcoin Whitepaper	[ONLINE] Will Cong (Cornell): Introduction to Web3 Economics and Oracle Networks Watch Recording Slides
09/23	Quiz 2	Introduction to Traditional Finance [Premiere] [Playlist] Reading: Money in the Modern Economy Reading: Money Creation in the Modern Economy Reading: Measuring Trade Execution Costs in Financial Markets Reading: Market Microstructure	[IN-PERSON] Christine Parlour: Introduction to Traditional Finance Watch Recording Slides
09/30	Quiz 3	Introduction to Smart Contracts [Premiere] [Playlist] Slides: Introduction to Smart Contracts Slides: Cryptocurrency and Privacy Law Reading: Formalizing and Securing Relationships on Public Networks Reading: Ethereum Whitepaper Reading: Introduction to Smart Contracts (Solidity Documentation) Reading: Solidity by Example	[ONLINE] Andrew Miller (UIUC): The use of Trusted Execution Environments (TEE) in DeFi Watch Recording Slides
10/07	Quiz 4	DEX [Premiere] [Playlist] Slides: DEX Slides: (Guest speaker Dan Robinson (Paradigm) [Uniswap case study]) Reading: Analysis of Uniswap Markets Reading: DEX with AMM Protocols Reading: StableSwap Reading: Theory of AMM in DeFi Reading: Uniswap v3 Core Whitepaper	[IN-PERSON] Peter Nobel
10/14	Quiz 5	Oracles [Premiere] [Playlist] Slides: Oracles Reading: An Authenticated Data Feed for Smart Contracts Reading: Chainlink 2.0 Reading: Liberating Web Data Using Decentralized Oracles	[ONLINE] Ari Juels (Cornell): The Oracle: A Crypto Thriller Novel Watch Recording Slides
10/21	Quiz 6	Decentralized Lending [Premiere] [Playlist] Slides: Decentralized Lending Reading: A Study of DeFi Liquidations Reading: Attacking DeFi with Flash Loans Reading: DeFi Protocols for Loanable Funds Reading: Liquidations Reading: The Decentralized Financial Crisis	[IN-PERSON] Sandro Herbig and Alex Blania (Worldcoin): System Overview of the World Project
10/28	Quiz 7	Stablecoins [Playlist] Slides: Stablecoins I Reading: (In)Stability for the Blockchain Reading: Stablecoins 2.0 Reading: Search for Stability in Crypto Assets Reading: While Stability Lasts Reading: Unique Equilibrium in Currency Attacks	[ONLINE] Fan Zhang (Yale): (De)centralization of Ethereum's builder market Watch Recording Slides
11/04	Quiz 8	Privacy on the Blockchain [Premiere] [Playlist] Slides: Privacy on the Blockchain Reading: Cryptocurrencies and Blockchain Technologies (CS251 at Stanford) Reading: A Fistful of Bitcoins Reading: Succinct Non-Interactive Arguments Reading: Tornado Cash Whitepaper Reading: Confidential Transactions	[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] Slides: Practical Smart Contract Security	[IN-PERSON] Christine Parlour: Synthetics, Derivatives and Tokenized Assets Watch Recording Slides
11/25	Quiz 10	DeFi Security II [Premiere] [Playlist] Slides: Smart Contract Security Reading: Detecting and Quantifying Wash Trading Reading: Flash Boys Reading: High Frequency Trading Reading: Profit-Generating Transactions Reading: Quantifying Blockchain Abstractable Value	[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] Slides: Decentralized Identities Reading: Proof of Person Reading: CanDID Reading: IPFS Reading: Axioms of Web Architecture Reading: Quadratic Payments	Project presentation (no synchronous lecture)