Past Courses
Spring Quarter 2024
4/2 Week 1 Introduction to Blockchains: Chris Dixon, General Partner a16z (zoom)
4/9 Week 2 Blockchain Infrastructure: Nikhil Viswanathan Co-Founder & CEO, Alchemy
4/16 Week 3 Business Models and Web3 vs Web2 Considerations: Avichal Garg, Co-Founder & General Partner, Electric Capital
4/23 Week 4 State of the Art in Digital Assets: Chris Larsen, Co-Founder & CEO at Ripple
4/30 Week 5 Blockchain Ecosystems Irene Wu, Head of Strategy, LayerZero
5/7 Week 6 Areas of Adoption (DePin, RWA, Social, Gaming): Adam Goldberg , Co-Founder & General Partner, Standard Crypto
5/14 Week 7 Gavin Wood, Co-founder, Polkadot
5/21 Week 8 Crypto and AI: Ala Shabana, Cofounder, Bittensor
5/28 Week 9 Scaling Blockchains: Nick White, COO, Celestia
6/4 Week 10 Wrap-Up and Reflections: Kun Peng, Aaron Greenblatt, Gil Rosen, Steven Willinger
Winter Quarter 2023
Week 1 (January 9th): Introduction: Alok Vasudev, Co-Founder of Standard Crypto
Week 2 (January 16th): MLK Day Break No Class
Week 3 (January 23rd): Web3 Startups: Haseeb Qureshi, Managing Partner at Dragonfly Capital
Week 4 (January 30th): Generative NFT: Richard Chen, General Partner at 1confirmation
Week 5 (Feb 6th): Decentralized Autonomous Organizations: Andy Hall, Professor of Political Economy at Graduate School of Business and Professor of Political Science
Week 6 (Feb 13th): Legal Considerations in Web3: Rodrigo Seira, Crypto Counsel at Paradigm
Week 7 (Feb 20th): President’s Day Break No Class
Week 8 (Feb 27th): Alternative Virtual Machine: Evan Cheng, Co-founder & CEO at Mysten Labs
Week 9 (March 6th): Topics on Zero Knowledge: Alex Pruden, CEO at Aleo
Week 10 (March 13th): Wrap-Up: Miko Matsumura, Managing Partner at Gumi Cryptos
Fall Quarter 2022
Week 1 (September 26th): Overview of the Course and Introduction to Web3: Evan Miyazono, Head of Research at Protocol Labs
Week 2 (October 3rd): Evolution of a Web3 Company: Sam Green, Co-Founder & Head of Research at Semiotic Labs
Week 3 (October 10th): Blockchain Fundamentals: Dan Boneh, Professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering of Stanford University and Co-Director of Stanford Center for Blockchain Research
Week 4 (October 17th): NFT & Gaming: Kevin Chou, Managing Partner at SuperLayer, Co-Founder at Rally, Co-Founder at Forte & Omar Siddiqui, Head Of Product, Economic Graph at LinkedIn
Week 5 (October 24th): Decentralized Finance (DeFi): Guillermo Angeris, Head of Research at Bain Capital Crypto
Week 6 (October 31st): Fundraising in Web3: Avichal Garg, Managing Partner at Electric Capital
Week 7 (November 7th): Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs): Scott Moore, Co-Founder and CEO of Gitcoin
Week 8 (November 14th): Web3 Entrepreneurship: Nemil Dalal, Head of Crypto at Coinbase
Week 9 (November 28th): Incentive Design in Web3: Tim Roughgarden, Head of Research at a16z Crypto and Professor of Computer Science at Columbia University
Week 10 (December 5th): Wrap-Up & Teaching Team Reflections: Kun Peng, Aaron Greenblatt, Gil Rosen, Phillip Reineke, Priyanka Mathikshara Mathialagan, Kydo