Date	Quiz (Due by Date)	Asynchronous Lecture Video (Watch by Date)	Synchronous Lecture (At 10:30 AM on Date)
09/01	None	No class (Labor Day)	None
09/08	None	Introduction and Overview of DeFi [Premiere] [Playlist] Reading: CeFi vs. DeFi Reading: DeFi SoK Reading: Schär, F., 2021	Arther Gervais (UCL): DeFi Overview Slides
09/15	Quiz 1	Introduction to Blockchain Technology [Premiere] [Playlist] Reading: Lightning Network Reading: Multi-Path Routing Reading: Rollup Reading: Bridges Reading: Bitcoin Whitepaper	[ONLINE] Liyi Zhou (University of Sydney): Hunting Vulnerabilities with AI Watch Recording Slides
09/22	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
09/29	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] Kaihua Qin (University of Warwick): Front-running, Imitation, Decompilation - Dark Forest Survival Skills Watch Recording Slides
10/06	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	NO CLASS
10/13	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	NO CLASS
10/20	Quiz 6	Decentralized Lending [Premiere] [Playlist] 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] Ruizhe Jia (Stanford) Slides
10/27	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	Darrell Duffie (Stanford): Stablecoin risks and opportunities Watch Recording Slides
11/03	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	[IN-PERSON] Hart Montgomery (Linux Foundation) Watch Recording Slides
11/10	Quiz 9	DeFi Security I [Premiere] [Playlist] Slides: Practical Smart Contract Security	NO CLASS
11/17	Quiz 10	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)	Christine Parlour: Payment Systems Watch Recording Slides
11/24	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	Dawn Song
12/1	Quiz 12	Decentralized Identities [Premiere] [Playlist] Slides: Decentralized Identities Reading: Proof of Person Reading: CanDID Reading: IPFS Reading: Axioms of Web Architecture Reading: Quadratic Payments	Rod Garratt (UCSB)