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The developments in DeFi, or decentralized finance, are much quicker than accompanied advances in academic discourse. In this post, I organize some questions based on my preliminary readings that will help us keep up with the fast-changing landscape. I plan on updating this list as the landscape evolves.


Resources

Here’s a list of resources that I found to be quite useful for thinking about crypto:

  1. A DeFi crash course for normies: Crypto markets since 2017 (January 2022)

  2. Stephen Diehl’s blog

  3. The Crypto Syllabus

  4. Crypto Risk Assessments

  5. Nicholas Weaver on cryptocurrencies

    lec12.pdf

  6. Blockchain Consensus Mechanisms: A Primer for Supervisors

  7. Crypto-assets and Decentralized Finance: A Primer (May 2022)

  8. Chapter on Cryptoeconomics by Cowen and Tabarrok (May 2022)


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