Date	Quiz (Due by Date)	Asynchronous Lecture Video (Watch by Date)	Synchronous Lecture (At 10:00 AM on Date)
08/29	None	No class	None
09/05	Quiz 1	Introduction and Overview of DeFi [Premiere] [Playlist] Slides: Introduction and Overview of DeFi Slides: FinTech or Automated Finance Slides: Christine's Live Lecture Slides Reading: CeFi vs. DeFi Reading: DeFi SoK Reading: Schär, F., 2021	Dawn/Christine Class Overview Watch Recording
09/12	Quiz 2	Introduction to Blockchain Technology [Premiere] [Playlist] Reading: Lightning Network Reading: Multi-Path Routing Reading: Rollup Reading: Bridges Reading: Bitcoin Whitepaper	None
09/19	Quiz 3	Introduction to Traditional Finance [Premiere] [Playlist] Slides: Introduction to Traditional Finance Slides: Christine's Live Lecture Slides 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: The economics of platforms and multi-sided markets. Watch Recording
09/26	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	None
10/03	Quiz 5	DEX [Premiere] [Playlist] Slides: DEX Slides: (Guest speaker Dan Robinson (Paradigm) [Uniswap case study]) Slides: Christine's Live Lecture Slides Reading: Analysis of Uniswap Markets Reading: DEX with AMM Protocols Reading: StableSwap Reading: Theory of AMM in DeFi Reading: Uniswap v3 Core Whitepaper	Christine: Tokenization of Real World Assets Watch Recording
10/10	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	None
10/17	Quiz 7	Stablecoins [Playlist] Slides: Stablecoins I Slides: Live Lecture Slides 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
10/24	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	None
10/31	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)	None
11/07	Quiz 10	DeFi Security I [Premiere] [Playlist] Slides: Practical Smart Contract Security	Dan Robinson (Uniswap)
11/14	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	Christine: A primer on Payments and Payment Technology Watch Recording
11/21	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	None
11/28	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	None