Economy 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.
~1 hour
Free Content
Paid Certification

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

Lessons in this certificate

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 program?

  • 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

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Alfonso Cevallos
Economics, game theory, and mechanism design
Jonas Gehrlein
Tokenomics and economic incentives

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