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Blockchain and Crypto Applications: From Decentralized Finance to Web 3

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Overview

Capitalize on the crypto market evolution and leverage the new wave of opportunities, guided by MIT experts.

On completion of this course, you’ll walk away with: Insight into the key opportunities and challenges arising from the different waves of crypto technologies, and the role of regulation in scaling applications. An understanding of decentralized finance, its potential use-cases and pitfalls that need to be overcome for mainstream adoption. Knowledge of the economics and costs of Web 3 and the benefits and issues related to its governance and decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs). The ability to develop an early stage DeFi, Web 3, or NFT project idea in your own business context.

Syllabus

  • Orientation module: Welcome to your Online Campus
  • Module 1: The crypto ecosystem: From Bitcoin to Web 3
  • Module 2: Forming your perspective on crypto
  • Module 3: Scaling crypto applications: The future of payments
  • Module 4: DeFi and the future of finance
  • Module 5: NFTs: The future of digital platforms and the metaverse
  • Module 6: Designing for Web 3: Network effects
  • Module 7: Key challenges for crypto: Privacy, governance, and regulation
  • Module 8: Building on the crypto frontier

Taught by

Christian Catalini

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