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课程概述

Decentralized Finance: The Future of Finance is a set of four courses taught by Campbell R. Harvey (Professor of Finance at the Fuqua School of Business, Duke University, and a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research) that focus on decentralized finance (DeFi). In this first course, we begin by exploring the origins of DeFi and take a broad historical view from the earliest barter economies, such as the first peer-to-peer exchanges of bartering, to present day. The course also looks at historical examples of money having value even though it is not officially backed. We then focus on the key infrastructure components: blockchain, cryptocurrency, smart contracts, oracles, stablecoins and decentralized applications (or dApps). This includes discussion of the mechanics of the Ethereum and Bitcoin blockchains including cryptographic hashing. Next, we focus on the specific problems that DeFi is designed to solve: inefficiency (costly, slow, and insecure today), limited access (1.7 billion are unbanked), opacity (we need to trust regulators to monitor banks and the regulators have mixed records), centralized control (financial system is oligopolistic imposing higher fees than we would have in a competitive market) and lack of interoperability (it is difficult to move funds from one financial institution to another today). The course closes by exploring many of the myths about the crypto space....

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Jan 13, 2022

I have fore-read about blockchain technology and cryptocurrencies, yet, this course was an excellent way to structure and review my knowledge. I am sure to join the next course of this specialization!

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Apr 12, 2022

Great introduction into DeFi, the professor walks us through key definitions, a bit of history, potential applications and common misunderstandings about this space. Good launching pad to dive deeper

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176 - Decentralized Finance (DeFi) Infrastructure 的 200 个评论（共 334 个）

创建者 Olga

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Dec 8, 2021

High quality course! Brief, clear, informative.

创建者 Subra R

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Apr 6, 2022

Excellent introduction to Blockchain and DeFi.

创建者 George W

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Feb 7, 2022

very easy to follow and extremely informative

创建者 Matthew J G

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Oct 4, 2022

Great initial overview of the DeFi Landscape

创建者 clayton v

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Mar 7, 2022

Very informative, and I got the book as well!

创建者 PABLO A M P

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Jan 21, 2022

Excellent first step into the Cripto World!

创建者 Max Z

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Jun 26, 2022

Really like the professor! very engaging!

创建者 Serghei S

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Aug 17, 2025

This is the best DeFi course at Coursera

创建者 Nicholas

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Dec 27, 2022

Great presentation and relevant content!

创建者 Juliana K

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Sep 17, 2022

Perfect. Easy to understand about DeFi.

创建者 Miguel D

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Jan 25, 2022

Great initial course, great explanation!

创建者 Tunde Z

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Dec 12, 2021

The delivery was an absolute top notch.

创建者 Langu

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Nov 24, 2021

A lot of practical, useful knowledge! :)

创建者 Luke O

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Oct 24, 2023

Well structured and easy to understand.

创建者 Muh F A

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Dec 30, 2022

Very good and solid foundation for DeFi

创建者 Peter

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Feb 10, 2022

Well presented, well explained course.

创建者 Heather H

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Oct 16, 2021

Well presented, clear and informative.

创建者 Anne-Sophie C

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Apr 8, 2022

thanks prof Harvey for this course !!

创建者 Lundrim A

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Apr 3, 2025

perfect content and amazing lectures

创建者 Andrea B

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Aug 23, 2023

Very clear and interesting teaching.

创建者 Subodh

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Aug 15, 2022

So much cool information! Thank you

创建者 Adeniyi O

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Jun 15, 2022

i really learnt a lot in the course

创建者 Dmitry V

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Jan 2, 2022

Outstanding course and easy to learn

创建者 Alex C

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Feb 17, 2025

Very clear and succint, great start