| Date | Topic | Recommended Reading |
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| Scalability | ||
| 01/18 | Introduction and Foundations of Consensus
Speaker: Dahlia Malkhi (Novi) |
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| 01/27 | Order fairness with Consensus
Speaker: Lorenzo Alvisi (Cornell University) |
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| 02/03 | Off-chain scalability: Channel networks and rollups
Speaker: Patrick McCorry (Infura) |
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| 02/10 | ZK tutorial
Speaker: Yupeng Zhang (Texas A&M University) |
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| 02/17 | ZK rollup
Speaker: Eli Ben-Sasson |
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| Provable Guarantees | ||
| 02/24 | MOVE and Formal verification in smart contracts
Speaker: David Dill |
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| Decentralized Storage | ||
| 03/03 | Decentralized Storage
Speaker: Juan Benet (Protocol Labs) |
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| Privacy Technologies in Blockchain | ||
| 03/10 | Privacy and Decentralized Identity
Speaker: Craig Gentry and Tal Rabin (Algorand) |
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| Cryptoeconomics | ||
| 03/17 | Cryptoeconomics and mechanisms design for decentralized systems
Speaker: Arthur Breitman (Tezos) |
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| 03/24 | No Class (Spring Break)
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| Advanced topics in decentralization | ||
| 03/31 | CBDC & DeFi Panel
Speaker: Michael Warner (Federal Reserve), Neha Narula (MIT Media Lab), Robert Hockett (Cornell Law), and Ehud Shapiro (Weizmann Institute) |
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| 04/07 | NFT, GameFi, Metaverse
Speaker: David Min (Disney) |
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| 04/14 | Decentralized governance, DAO
Speaker: Jon Allen |
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| 04/21 | Decentralized Knowledge graphs
Speaker: Denny Vrandecic |
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| 04/28 | Responsible innovation and regulation in decentralized systems
Speaker: Alex Feerst |
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