Date	Quiz (Due by Date)	Asynchronous Lecture Video (Watch by Date)	Synchronous AMA (At 10:00 AM on Date)
09/06	Quiz 1	Introduction and Overview of DeFi [Premiere] [Playlist] Slides: Introduction and Overview of DeFi Reading: CeFi vs. DeFi Reading: DeFi SoK Reading: Schär, F., 2021	Dawn Song
09/13	Quiz 2	Introduction to Blockchain Technology [Premiere] [Playlist] Slides: Introduction to Blockchain Technology Reading: Lightning Network Reading: Multi-Path Routing Reading: Rollup Reading: Bridges Reading: Bitcoin Whitepaper	Dan Boneh
09/20	Quiz 3	Introduction to Traditional Finance [Premiere] [Playlist] Slides: Introduction to Traditional Finance Reading: Money in the Modern Economy Reading: Money Creation in the Modern Economy Reading: Measuring Trade Execution Costs in Financial Markets Reading: Market Microstructure	Christine Parlour Watch Recording
09/27	Quiz 4	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	Peter Van Valkenburgh – “Current Topics in Crypto Regulation” Watch Recording
10/04	Quiz 5	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	Dan Robinson Watch Recording
10/11	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	Andrew Miller Watch Recording
10/18	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	Arthur Gervais Watch Recording
10/25	Quiz 8	Oracles [Premiere] [Playlist] Slides: Oracles Reading: An Authenticated Data Feed for Smart Contracts Reading: Chainlink 2.0 Reading: Liberating Web Data Using Decentralized Oracles	Ari Juels – “Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs): Overview and Technical Frontiers.” Watch Recording
11/1	Quiz 9	Synthetics and Derivatives [Premiere] [Playlist] Slides: Synthetics And Derivatives I Slides: Synthetics And Derivatives II Reading: Exchange-Traded Funds Reading: The Economics of Central Clearing Reading: Margin Account Requirements Reading: US Repo Fact Sheet (2021)	N/A (CESC)
11/8	No Quiz!	Incentive Design in DeFi (Guest Lecture) [Premiere] Slides: Challenges in Cryptoeconomics Slides: Extension	Tim Roughgarden
11/15	Quiz 10	DeFi Security I [Premiere] [Playlist] Slides: Practical Smart Contract Security	Sam Sun Watch Recording
11/22	Quiz 11	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	Stani Kulechov Watch Recording
11/29	Quiz 12	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	TBD
12/6	Quiz 13	Decentralized Identities [Premiere] [Playlist] Slides: Decentralized Identities Reading: Proof of Person Reading: CanDID Reading: IPFS Reading: Axioms of Web Architecture Reading: Quadratic Payments	TBD
12/13	TBD	Regulatory Issues in DeFi (Optional Lecture) [Premiere]	N/A