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14.129 | Spring 2025 | Graduate

# Blockchain and the Design of Financial Systems

This page presents the lecture slide files from 14.129 Blockchain and the Design of Financial Systems.
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Lecture 1: Introduction to 14.129 Blockchain and Design of Financial Systems
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Lecture 2: Blockchain as a Database
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Lecture 3: Distributed Ledgers as a Solution to an Information Problem
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Lecture 4: Smart Contracts as a Solution to a Coordination Problem
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Lecture 5: Tokenized and Programmable Assets
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Lecture 6: Multilateral Trade Credit Set-Off (MTCS)
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Lecture 7: Stochastic Financial Networks
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Lecture 8: Mechanism Design & Incentives vs. Protocols & Notions of Trust
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Lecture 9: Modern Encryption: Key Concepts
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Lecture 10: Designs of Financial Infrastructure Utilizing Encryption
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Lecture 11: Market Mechanisms and Alternative Equilibria

## Course Info

### Instructor

- Prof. Robert M. Townsend

### Departments

- Economics

### As Taught In

Spring 2025

### Level

Graduate

### Topics

- Social Science
  - Economics
    - Financial Economics

### Learning Resource Types

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