Decentralized Payments, Contracts, and Finance for Humans and AI

Undergraduate

Blockchains provide a platform for humans to coordinate economic activity without relying on centralized intermediaries. Emerging standards such as EIP-8004 aim to extend these capabilities to autonomous agents, enabling AI systems to transact and coordinate through shared protocols. This introductory course explores such decentralized applications, including tokens, exchanges, lending protocols, stablecoins, oracles, decentralized governance, and emerging standards for AI coordination and interoperability. Students learn system architecture, security intuition, and how to build and debug decentralized applications. Required: CPSC 201 and 202 (or equivalent), and a basic understanding of computer systems and networks. QR MW 11:35am-12:50pm