14.129 | Spring 2025 | Graduate

Blockchain and the Design of Financial Systems

Lecture 8: Mechanism Design and Incentives vs. Protocols and Notions of Trust

This lecture covers private information, the incentives to report and take actions, the Byzantine Generals problem, and the differences between economics’ and computer science’s approaches to algorithms and trust.

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Spring 2025
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