Smart Contract Platforms
Required Readings:
‘Landscape for Smart Contract Platforms’ MIT Cryptocurrency Online Short Course (as adapted,
August 2019)
‘The State of the Ethereum Network: 2019’ ConsenSys, Medium (July 22, 2019)
‘The Myth of the Infrastructure Phase’ Union Square Ventures (October 1, 2018)
‘Joe Lubin, Jimmy Song Strike $500K Crypto Bet on Ethereum’s Future’ Coindesk (May 15, 2019)
‘An overview of the most reliable cryptocurrency smart contract platforms’ Cointelligence (November
20, 2018)
Study Questions/Issues to Prepare:
1) What are the viability and value propositions of smart contract platforms? Can they survive
absent robust Dapp token successes?
2) Will more than 1 or 2 of the many smart contract platforms using proof of stake survive in
competition with Ethereum? What happens when Ethereum transitions to proof of stake as well?
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3) Who is most likely to win the Lubin Song wager on Ethereum’s future?