Open Certificate · Policymakers Pathway

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.

~10 hours
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
Alfonso Cevallos Jonas Gehrlein
02 Supply, Demand, and Market Forms
Alfonso Cevallos
03 Game Theory Foundations
Alfonso Cevallos
04 Coordination and Public Goods
Alfonso Cevallos Jonas Gehrlein
05 Econ and Game Theory in Blockchain
Alfonso Cevallos Jonas Gehrlein
06 Auction Theory and Price Finding
Alfonso Cevallos
07 Polkadot Tokenomics and Coretime
Alfonso Cevallos
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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