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# Courses

A list of popular Web3-focused MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses*)*:

<table><thead><tr><th width="249.33333333333331">Course</th><th width="181">Provider</th><th>Description</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td><a href="https://www.edx.org/course/bitcoin-and-cryptocurrencies">Bitcoin and Cryptocurrencies</a></td><td>Berkeley </td><td>Developer-focused course teaching the fundametnals of Bitcoin, Ethereum, the basics of smart contract platforms and the building of decentralized applications.  Course is 6 weeks at roughly 3-5 hours per week</td></tr><tr><td><a href="https://www.coursera.org/learn/cryptocurrency">Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency Technologies</a></td><td>Princeton University </td><td>One of the earliest and most popular introductory courses taught by Arvind Narayanan.  Takes roughly 23 hours to complete</td></tr><tr><td><a href="https://www.edx.org/course/blockchain-and-fintech-basics-applications-and-lim">Bitcoin and Fintech</a></td><td>The Unversity of Hong Kong </td><td>Introductory course on the implications of blockchains on Fintech.  Course lasts six weeks and requires 3-4 hours per week</td></tr><tr><td><a href="https://www.youtube.com/c/MetricsDAO/videos?view=0&#x26;sort=dd&#x26;shelf_id=0">Blockchain Analystics Course</a></td><td>Metrics DAO </td><td>Course teacher users how to gather and analyze on-chain data</td></tr><tr><td><a href="https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/15-s12-blockchain-and-money-fall-2018/">Blockchain and Money</a></td><td>MIT</td><td>Introduction to Cryptocurrencies taught by Gary Gensler (Chairperson of the SEC)</td></tr><tr><td><a href="https://www.coursera.org/learn/smarter-contracts#syllabus">Blockchain Specialization</a></td><td>Coursera </td><td>Intermediate level course from Coursera, requiring approximately 17 hours to complete</td></tr><tr><td><a href="https://cryptocurrencyclass.github.io/">Cryptocurrency Class 2022</a></td><td>Patrick McCorry </td><td>Highly technical 8-week class from Patrick McCorry, an engineer at Infura</td></tr><tr><td><a href="https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/mas-s62-cryptocurrency-engineering-and-design-spring-2018/">Cryptocurrency Engineering and Design</a></td><td>MIT </td><td>Technical overvier of cryptocurrencies from MIT</td></tr><tr><td><a href="https://rdi.berkeley.edu/berkeley-defi/f22">Decentralized Finance</a></td><td>Berkeley </td><td>12-week deep dive on DeFi from UC Berkeley</td></tr><tr><td><a href="https://www.udemy.com/course/introduction-to-cryptocurrencies/">Introduction to Cryptocurrencies and Blockchain by Udemy</a></td><td>Udemy </td><td>Relatively short (2 hours of video) introductory course on Udemy</td></tr><tr><td><a href="https://www.unic.ac.cy/openmetaverse/mooc-nfts-metaverse/">Introduction to NFTs and the Metaverse</a></td><td>University of Nicosia </td><td>Overview of NFTs and the Metaverse taught by Punk6529 with several prominent guests (such as Fred Wilson, Chris Dixon and Yat Siu).  This is a relatively new course that will span 12 weeks</td></tr></tbody></table>