Topics for researching and presenting

DeFi primitives:

(more economics here; intro 1)

AMMs (automated market makers)

Oracles

Money Markets (lending protocols)

Stablecoins

Scaling / privacy solutions:

(more technology here)

Scaling Bitcoin: payment channels and lightning network

Scaling Ethereum: optimistic rollups

Privacy solutions: zero knowledge technology

(math heavy)

Scaling Ethereum: zk rollups

Social impact of blockchains:

(more behavioural economics here)

DAOs

(decentralized autonomous organizations)

NFTs

(non-fungible tokens)

Blockchain specific aspects:

(arbitrage / market efficiency type of considerations here):

MEV

(miner/maximal extractable value)