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Course Syllabus

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1/7 Week 1: Introduction to Blockchains

Teaching Team: Aaron Greenblatt, Kun Peng, Gil Rosen, Steven Willinger, Xochitl Cazador

1/14 Week 2: AI Agent

Nemil Dala, Head of Coinbase Developer Platform & AgentKit at Base

1/21 Week 3: Staking and Economic Security in the Blockchain Ecosystem

Sreeram Kannan, Founder & CEO, EigenLayer

1/28 Week 4: Blockchain Entrepreneurship from the Trenches

Jason Zhao, Co-Founder, Story Protocol

2/4 Week 5: Scaling Ethereum

Karl Floersch, Cofounder, Optimism

2/11 Week 6: Regulations

Gina Moon, General Counsel, Paradigm

2/18 Week 7: Decentralized Finance

Gordon Liao, Head of Research & Chief Economist, Circle

2/25 Week 8: Solana & DEPIN

Anatoly Yakovenko, Cofounder, Solana

3/4 Week 9: Crypto & AI

Illia Polosukhin, Cofounder of Near & Co-author of “Attention is All You Need”

3/11 Week 10: Future of Blockchain

Surprise Guest; to be moderated by Dan Boneh, CS Professor, Stanford

Course Schedules

Tuesday 4:30pm - 5:20pm at Sapp Center for Science Teaching and Learning Room 111.

Attendance in person is required as some classes are not recorded.

Grading

Attend 7 out of 10 lectures and complete attendance form (link to be shared at start and end of class).