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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

MW

Nov 15, 2021

Excellent course in preparation for the Flare Finance platform to be released soon.

MA

Dec 26, 2022

Great class giving us a very clear concise overview of the Defi space. I am currently wokring my own project called Fate Finance - which has some very unique protocols.

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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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