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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 second course is called DeFi Primitives. It is recommended that you take the first course, DeFi Infrastructure, before this course. In this course, we talk about transaction mechanics and introduce both fungible and non-fungible tokens – or NFTs. The course explores the important issue of custody (holding private keys). The course then explores supply adjustment which includes the minting and burning of tokens. The mechanics of bonding curves are introduced. The course then explores the role of direct as well as indirect incentives in the DeFi system. We then analyze swaps or decentralized exchange. We begin by contrasting DEX with centralized exchange (e.g., Coinbase or Binance). The course details the mechanics of Automated Market Makers and provides a number of detailed examples. There is a discussion of impermanent loss as well as (legal) front-running. We end the course by exploring both collateralized and flash loans....

Top reviews

TH

Aug 31, 2024

The AI help tool was also nice to stay involved. With attention deficit I struggle with focus but I am working on it.

SP

Jul 13, 2022

I​ like the way the professor communicates in this course. He is very clear and I can understand him. Thank-you.

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By T. W G

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Aug 8, 2022

The Instructor is awesome

By Ann S

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Mar 20, 2022

Awesome course! Thanks!

By Temisan A

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Mar 17, 2022

lovely useful teachings

By Ahmet K

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Jan 9, 2023

this course very goood

By guillaume

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Mar 25, 2022

Excellent, very clear.

By Gebran C

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Dec 21, 2021

Great Course on DeFi.

By Pete W

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Jul 19, 2024

Very good course!

By Miguel D

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Feb 6, 2022

Great course!

By Kidany V

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Mar 19, 2022

Great course!

By 黃楷越 H K Y B

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Dec 3, 2025

book is good

By NIJIMBERE B

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Sep 13, 2024

Great course

By Prasannakarthik S

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Jan 7, 2022

Great videos

By Stefano G

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May 13, 2022

Very Nice!

By Douglas Y

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Apr 29, 2022

thank you

By PANAGIOTIS M

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Dec 26, 2025

nice

By Nirav N

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Dec 31, 2022

Good

By Benja P

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May 25, 2025

The course is very easy to understand, but the information is from 2021. This is a concern.

By Genadii M

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Jun 19, 2022

It is an interesting cource. Gives basic understanding of DeFi Structure and how it works.

By Luis L

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Feb 20, 2022

Es increible todo el conocimiento que se adquiere en este curso. Lo recomiendo!!

By SUKHASEUM A A

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Dec 29, 2025

Should you consider signing the certificates with your digital signature

By Temidayo A

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May 16, 2022

Very Educative course

By Lawton H

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Mar 12, 2022

Very informative.

By Ajay B

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Jul 9, 2022

Too technical. Ropsten network has changed now and one cannot get free coins. Course has not been updated

By STEX

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Jan 7, 2022

Utter rubbish of a class. Incoherent, disjointed. The presentations were wordy and slumber inducing. It is amazing how someone can manage to lose the inspiration and interests of a learner on such exciting and dynamic topic as DeFi. Don't waste your time and money. Just go to Binance and read their tutorials. They are much more put together, and they give you the raison d'etre of a topic/technology.

By Fadoua Z

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Sep 17, 2022

It's a shame that this course was presented by Coursera instead of the Infrastructure one first!

It made the learning difficult and incoherent because so many of the fundamentals were in the course Infrastructure!

This one I think is a patchwork of videos from the 4 main courses, therefore, there are some "glue" missing between the different components of the content.

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