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About the Course

DeFi and the Future of Finance is a set of four courses that focus on decentralized finance. The third course is called DeFi Deep Dive. It is essential that you do the first two courses I. DeFi Infrastructure and II. DeFi Primitives before doing this course. It is the longest of the four courses and focuses on some of the leading protocols in the DeFi space. We will look at Credit and Lending (and feature MakerDAO, Compound and Aave), Decentralized Exchange with an analysis of how protocols like Uniswap and Balancer works, Derivatives (featuring Yield Protocol, dYdX and Synthetix) and Tokenization with an analysis of Set Protocol as well as wrapped bitcoin. For many of these leading protocols, we include detailed examples of how the mechanics work. For example, we show how to use a dYdX flash swap to execute an arbitrage transaction (take advantage of different prices on different exchanges for the same asset)....

Top reviews

RR

Jan 25, 2024

Systematic overview of Defi eco system. Course keeps the right level of detail and explains well the core concept of each topic.

DZ

Nov 26, 2022

good overview of the major Defi protocols on ethereum. Provides detailed examples on these major Defi protocols work that are easy to understand.

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By Matthias S

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Jun 29, 2022

It is a good overview. I hoped that after the Wallet was set up, there would be more "hands on". Also, it maybe spent to much time on how a Futures works (in the real world) and not enough on what was specific to crypto (week 3)

By Fred Y

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Jan 19, 2024

Covered governance of token pairs and the difference between proof of work and proof of stake.

By Ishan S

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Sep 8, 2023

I wish there was more of technical aspects as well.

I thought we would be seeing some smart contract action too.

Like the development of these and so on. But alas, otherwise the knowledge was good.

By Abhinav L

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Oct 29, 2024

If you want to learn the mechanics of DeFi, this course is quite useful; however I am more interested from a business and finance perspective, where it is less enlightening.

By Xirui

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Nov 11, 2024

Good content, but the professor says "uh", "um", "so" and "and" way too often, making it painful to listen to.