Economics and
Game Theory

Applied economics for Web3 engineers, founders, and policy thinkers: incentives and rationality, supply and demand, game theory, auction mechanisms, and the full Polkadot economic loop. The principles you need to reason about token design and incentive misalignment.
~2 hours
Free Access
 Beginners

Skills you will gain

  • Reason about incentive design and its failure modes
  • Apply supply, demand, and market-form analysis
  • Model games and find Nash equilibria
  • Choose and critique auction mechanisms
  • Identify Schelling points and dominant strategies
  • Trace the full Polkadot economic cycle

Modules in this course

01
Incentives and Rationality
02
Supply, Demand, and Market Forms
03
Game Theory Foundations
04
Coordination and Public Goods
05
Econ and Game Theory in Blockchain
06
Auction Theory and Price Finding
07
Polkadot Tokenomics and Coretime

Why take this course?

  • Build practical knowledge with a clear learning structure
  • Learn from people building the technology
  • Study at your own pace, from anywhere
  • Strengthen your foundation for what comes next
Alfonso Cevallos
Blockchain Researcher at Web3 Foundation
Jonas Gehrlein
Research Scientist at Parity Technologies

Complete all 7 modules to finish this course