Proof-of-Stake Systems and Economics

Basics of Proof-of-Stake for Techies and Analysts

What you'll learn:
How do Proof-of-Stake systems work?
Role of consensus mechanisms in blockchain design.
Different types of proof-of-stake protocols.
Economics of Proof-of-Stake systems.
Staking Rewards and Penalties.
Ethereum Proof-of-Stake.
Staking Yield and Dilution.

Requirements:
Basic understaning of computing systems is required.

Description:
On 15th September 2022, finally, the Ethereum merge happened and with that Ethereum is now a proof-of-stake blockchain.

Now, as the crypto winter sets in, the interest for staking will likely be high as staking allows investors to earn a passive return without selling their crypto assets at the prevailing low prices.

But, this course is not an investment course. This course rather looks into how a proof-of-stake system works and its internal economics of it.

While there is a lot of chatter and speculation about how much return proof-of-stake blockchains generate, how these returns are generated and how sustainable these returns are often very obscure. To understand how the returns are generated through proof-of-stake (PoS) we need to understand how PoS works.

This course will look into how PoS consensus actually works, how PoS systems are different, different types of PoS consensus mechanisms, apart from the internal economics of the proof-of-stake systems and what drives the incentive mechanism of these systems.

While we will cover some concepts related to staking as a crypto investment strategy, that is not the focus of the course.
This course covers:

Primer on Ethereum Merge
Major Proof-of-Stake Blockchains
Role of Staking in crypto investing
Role of consensus in blockchain design
Anatomy of a Proof-of-Stake
Proof-of-Stake Economics - Overview
Proof-of-Stake Economics - Ethereum

Who this course is for:
This course is primarily suitable for techies and analysts who are interested in learning the economics of proof-of-stake blockchains.

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