Schedule

This is a tentative schedule. It will be updated according to the actual progress.

Event

Date

Description

Course Material
Lecture

07/09/2026 (Mon)
08/09/2026 (Tue)

Week 1: Course Admin and Overview of DeFi
[slides]
Lecture

14/09/2026 (Mon)
15/09/2026 (Tue)

Week 2: Blockchain Fundamentals and Bitcoin
Lecture

21/09/2026 (Mon)
22/09/2026 (Tue)

Week 3: Hands-on Tutorial on Blockchain Basics
Lecture

28/09/2026 (Mon)
29/09/2026 (Tue)

Week 4: Ethereum and Smart Contracts
Lecture

05/10/2026 (Mon)

Week 5: Ethereum and Smart Contracts (cont'd)
Lecture

06/10/2026 (Tue)

Week 5: Hands-on Tutorial on Ethereum Mechanics and Solidity Programming
Lecture

12/10/2026 (Mon)
13/10/2026 (Tue)

Week 6: Distributed Consensus; Proof-of-Stake in Ethereum
Holiday

19/10/2026 (Mon)

The day following Chung Yeung Festival (no Monday class)
Lecture

20/10/2026 (Tue)

Week 7: Infrastructure in Traditional Finance
Lecture

26/10/2026 (Mon)
27/10/2026 (Tue)

Week 8: Stablecoins (Part I)
Lecture

02/11/2026 (Mon)
03/11/2026 (Tue)

Week 9: Lending & Borrowing Protocols; Stablecoins (Part II)
Lecture

09/11/2026 (Mon)
10/11/2026 (Tue)

Week 10: Decentralized Exchange (DEX) and Automated Market Maker (AMM)
Lecture

16/11/2026 (Mon)
17/11/2026 (Tue)

Week 11: Oracles
Lecture

23/11/2026 (Mon)
24/11/2026 (Tue)

Week 12: Tokenizations - NFT, RWA
Lecture

30/11/2026 (Mon)
01/12/2026 (Tue)

Week 13: DeFi Regulatory Landscape; Future Directions
Lecture

07/12/2026 (Mon)

Week 14: Overflow
Exam

15/12/2026 (Tue)

Final Exam (Dec 15, Tue, 3:30PM - 6:30PM); Venue TBA