MIT Sloan School of Management

Blockchain and Crypto Applications: From Decentralized Finance to Web 3

Capitalize on the crypto market evolution and leverage the new wave of opportunities, guided by MIT experts.

Start date

12 February 2025

Price

$3,500 USD

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Course duration

8 weeks

Excluding orientation

Language

English

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Effort

6–8 hours per week

Self-paced learning online

ABOUT THIS COURSE

Course overview

$67.4 billion

The projected valuation of the blockchain market by 2026.

Markets and markets (Nov, 2021).

950,000

The number of unique addresses that bought or sold an NFT in Q1 2022, up from 627,000 in Q4 2021.

Chainalysis (2022).

Duration: 8 weeks (excluding orientation)

While blockchain and cryptocurrencies have emerged as powerful and disruptive technological forces, their decentralized nature has created novel challenges for traditional financial authorities and regulators. However, cryptocurrencies also bring opportunities; leveraging blockchain technologies, they provide new digital pathways in the global finance system.

In the Blockchain and Crypto Applications: From Decentralized Finance to Web 3 online short course, you’ll gain a sound understanding of the future of blockchain technology and the possibilities that lie ahead for crypto. From finance to the metaverse, you’ll explore the evolution of the tumultuous and dynamic crypto space as experienced by a range of MIT Sloan School of Management faculty and experts in the field. This includes some of the major trends that characterize new crypto waves and advancements. You’ll also explore the dichotomy of public opinion regarding cryptotechnologies, and the rapidly evolving legal and policy landscape.

Is this course for you?

This program is ideally suited to experienced professionals and leaders interested in discerning hype from reality and capitalizing on real opportunities in cryptocurrency and blockchain. Whether to improve in their current role, enhance their skill set, or embark on a new career path, participants will benefit from the experts’ balanced take on the crypto space. Additionally, those ready to invest in and start their own blockchain or crypto venture will learn how to create a primer for an early stage project idea while considering technical, market, and regulatory challenges.

Course overview

Duration: 8 weeks (excluding orientation)

What will set you apart

On completion of this course, you’ll walk away with:

Insight into the key opportunities and challenges arising from the different waves of crypto technologies, and the role of regulation in scaling applications.

An understanding of decentralized finance, its potential use-cases and pitfalls that need to be overcome for mainstream adoption.

Knowledge of the economics and costs of Web 3 and the benefits and issues related to its governance and decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs).

The ability to develop an early stage DeFi, Web 3, or NFT project idea in your own business context.

Course curriculum

Realize your crypto idea guided by experts as you work through the weekly modules of this online short course.

Orientation module

Welcome to your Online Campus

Module 1

The crypto ecosystem: From Bitcoin to Web 3

Module 2

Forming your perspective on crypto

Module 3

Scaling crypto applications: The future of payments

Module 4

DeFi and the future of finance

Module 5

NFTs: The future of digital platforms and the metaverse

Module 6

Designing for Web 3: Network effects

Module 7

Key challenges for crypto: Privacy, governance, and regulation

Module 8

Building on the crypto frontier

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Faculty Director

The design of this online short course is guided by MIT Sloan faculty, as well as industry experts, who will share their experience and in-depth knowledge with you throughout the program.

Christian Catalini

Founder, MIT Cryptoeconomics Lab and Research Scientist, MIT Sloan School of Management

About the certificate

Discover the possibilities that lie ahead for crypto and blockchain, and earn an official digital certificate of completion from MIT Sloan.

This program also counts toward an MIT Sloan Executive Certificate, which you can earn upon completion of four programs where at least three of the four come from your chosen certificate track and at least one is completed in person. Find full details here.

Your certificate will be issued in your legal name and sent to you digitally upon successful completion of the program, as per the stipulated requirements.

MIT Sloan Blockchain and Crypto Applications: From Decentralized Finance to Web 3 online program certificate

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