[Teaching] Lecture series on decentralized public goods at Amrita University

I was invited to give a week of lectures to undergraduate and Masters students in the Cybersecurity Gaculty at Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham University in Kollam, India – with students joining remotely from their Coimbatore campus. The university is ranked 7th in India (NIRF 2024) and has a particularly strong cybersecurity research unit. A summary of the course subject matter is below.

1. Introduction to decentralized systems 
2. Decentralization as a core value proposition
3. From Web 1.0 to Web 3.0
4. Trust & trust-minimization
5. Public, open blockchains
6. Deterministic state machines
7. Decentralized application architecture
8. Problems facing decentralized systems
9. Anti-centralization mechanisms
10. Decentralized end-to-end encryption
11. Corporate & state surveillance
12. Privacy as a human right
13. Security, privacy & trust-minimization for data sharing via threshold decryption 
14. Distributed key generation
15. Cryptoeconomics & two-sided market development
16. A decentralized end-to-end encryption public good in practice
17. Ideating a decentralized, privacy-preserving user-facing application‍