Very basic introduction. Could have been better with some illustrations. Lots of slides with lots of bullets that author voices over- fortunately its not just read out as is. Lots of "DeFi this, DeFi that, you can combine tokens to create new tokes, you can fork away" without explaining any of that. No sound theory so far, feels more like a hyped DeFi worshop posing to give some balanced angle. No math, no code, no software, no details on protocols. Not bad for getting a quick overview of buzz words, but thats it. Planning to try the next one in the series. Hoping that would be better.

This course is focused on trying to justify the use case of criptocurrencies and DeFI, instead of explaining the concepts of DeFi infrastructure. Too much effort is put into convincing the student that DeFi is better than CeFi. Rougly half of the time is spent trying to justify the doubtful benefits of DeFi compared to CeFi, so the teaching pace is very slow and the DeFi concepts are barely skimmed and always mixed with biased opinions about the conveniency of DeFi against CeFi.

From the beginning I have had the impression that the professor wanted to 'sell' the idea that DeFi only has advantages, that it is the best option deal with transactions and so on, accurately forgetting or minimizing the seversl drawbacks. Many of the topics covered were not explained clearly but only slightly mentioned, moreover his pronunciation of the word 'finance' was hard to tolerate throughout the course.

Not worth it. This is an opinion piece with basic terms and NOT an academic overview of DeFi.

Very poor quality course. The lecturer doesnt know hsi subject and was expremely poor. Didnt expect this from a Duke prof.