Blockchain Development and FinTech

Course ID: NYCU CSIC30161

Hosted by: Martinet Lee

Administrative TA: Oatmeal

Hackathon

The students of this course are required to join ETHTaipei hackathon when it happens within the semester.

Visit this page to see the full list of past projects - Hackathon Project Showcase

Lecture schedule & materials

Date	Topic	Assignments	Deadlines
2026-02-24	Intro to cryptography and cryptocurrencies	Lab1
	Readings:
	- Bitcoin Whitepaper
	- Merkle Trees on OpenDSA
	- What is a Merkle Tree?
2026-03-03	Infrastructure of Blockchain	Lab2	Lab1
	Readings:
	- Having a safe CEX: proof of solvency and beyond
	- Zero Transfer Phishing
	- ByBit 2025 1.5B Hack Tweet
	- Can we rollback Ethereum? - tweet post by Tim Beiko
2026-03-10	The Standards of Assets	Lab3	Lab2
	Readings:
	- ERC20
	- ERC721
2026-03-17	Lab-o1 &	Lab4	Lab3
	Readings:
	- Ethereum Beige Paper		Lab4
2026-03-24	Introduction to EVM & Stablecoins
2026-03-31	Lending Protocol & Yield Aggregator	Lab5
	Readings:
	- Lending Protocols — Supplementary Material
2026-04-07	Tentative Guest Speaker (Nikita Belenkov, from Anza - Solana R&D company)		Lab5 & Midterm Proposal Draft Submission
2026-04-14	Tentatively OFF (Midterm week!)
2026-04-21	Onsite Lab 2
2026-04-28	Security Audits & Bridges		Midterm Proposal Idea Draft
	Readings:
	- Smart Contract Security Audits — Supplementary Material
	- Cross-Chain Bridges — Supplementary Material
	- LayerZero Architecture and the KelpDAO Incident — Supplementary Material
2026-05-05	Account Abstraction		Midterm Proposal
2026-05-12	MEV
2026-05-19	Review of Key concepts
2026-05-26	(TBD)
2026-06-02	Final Project Presentation
2026-06-09	(Potential Final Project Presentation date)