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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.
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
Instructors (2)
A
Alfonso Cevallos
Game theory, mechanism design, and market mechanisms
J
Jonas Gehrlein
Tokenomics, incentives, and the Polkadot economic model
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
Instructors
PBA-X Faculty
Course content is drawn from PBA-X lessons across the Blockchain, Cryptography, Economics, Polkadot, and Governance modules — see the full list above.
Complete all 7 lessons to earn your certificate
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