• Introduction and Overview of DeFi (1 week) o Centralized/Traditional Finance o Decentralized Finance • Introduction to Blockchain Technology (2 weeks) o Smart Contracts o Lightning Network o Rollups o Bridges • DeFi Assets and Engineering (7 weeks) o Decentralized Exchanges o Decentralized Lending o Stablecoins o Oracles o Synthetics and Derivatives • Security and Privacy of DeFi (2 weeks) o Decentralized Identities o Practical DeFi Security o Zero-Knowledge Techniques • Regulatory Issues for DeFi (1 week)