• Sam M. Werner, Daniel Perez, Lewis Gudgeon, Ariah Klages-Mundt, Dominik Harz, William J. Knottenbelt, “SoK Decentralized Finance (DeFi),” Procs. of the 4th ACM Conference on Advances in Financial Technologies (AFT), 2022.
  • Kaihua Qin, Liyi Zhou, Yaroslav Afonin, Ludovico Lazzaretti, Arthur Gervais, “CeFi vs. DeFi - Comparing Centralized to Decentralized Finance,” 2021 Crypto Valley Conference on Blockchain Technology (CVCBT), arXiv:2106.08157.
  • Fabian Schär, “Decentralized Finance: On Blockchain and Smart Contract-Based Financial Markets,” Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Review, Feb 2021.
  • Michael McLeay, Amar Radia, Ryland Thomas, “Money in the Modern Economy: An Introduction,” Bank of England Quarterly Bulletin 2014 Q1.
  • Michael McLeay, Amar Radia, Ryland Thomas, “Money Creation in the Modern Economy,” Bank of England Quarterly Bulletin 2014 Q1.
  • Arvind Narayanan, Joesph Bonneau, Edward Felten, Andrew Miller, Steven Goldfeder, Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency Technologies - A Comprehensive Introduction, Princeton University Press, 2016
  • Andreas M. Antonopoulos, Mastering Bitcoin, 2nd Edition, Published by O’Reilly, July 2017
  • Andreas Antonopoulos, Gavin Wood, Mastering Ethereum - Building Smart Contracts and DApps, Published by O’Reilly, 2018.
  • Jiahua Xu, Nazariy Vavryk, Krzysztof Paruch, Simon Cousaert, “SoK: Decentralized Exchanges (DEX) with Automated Market Maker (AMM) protocols,” ACM Computing Surveys, Vol. 55, No. 11, Feb 2023.
  • Lewis Gudgeon, Sam Werner, Daniel Perez, William J. Knottenbelt, “DeFi Protcols for Loanable Funds: Interest Rates, Liquidity and Market Efficiency,” Procs. of the 2nd ACM Conference on Advances in Financial Technologies (AFT), 2020.
  • Ariah Klages-Mundt, Dominik Harz, Lewis Gudgeon, Jun-You Liu, Andreea Minca, “Stablecoins 2.0: Economic Foundations and Risk-based Models,” Procs. of the 2nd ACM Conference on Advances in Financial Technologies (AFT), 2020.

Additional readings and resources will be provided throughout the course.