Lecture 1. Introduction: coordination and Bitcoin.

Lecture 2. Introduction: Ethereum and beyond.

Lecture 3. Cryptographic hash functions.

Lecture 4. Encryption and digital signatures.

Lecture 5. The SMR and BB consensus problems and the Dolev-Strong protocol.

Lecture 6. Relaxing PKI: the hexagon argument.

Lecture 7. Asynchrony, BA consensus and the FLP impossibility.

Lecture 8. Partial synchrony and the CAP theorem.

Lecture 9. The Tendermint Protocol.

Lectures 10. Longest-chain consensus.

Topics for researching and presenting