Lecture Notes — Part II

Week 9 — Polkadot & Kusama

Topics: Relay Chain, parachains, NPoS, Asset Hub, Polkadot.js, Westend testnet, and enterprise blockchain use cases.

Weeks 10–11 — XCM and Contract Deployment

Students explore cross-chain messaging and deploy EVM contracts through Remix for Polkadot / Substrate EVM environments.

Weeks 12–13 — DeFi and AMMs

Topics: constant product AMMs, LP shares, fees, impermanent loss, Uniswap V2, Uniswap V3, and DeFi research.

Week 14 — TON

Topics: TON architecture, masterchain/workchains/shardchains, wallet contracts, user-friendly addresses, Jettons, and STON.fi.

Week 15 — HackTON

Students work with TON smart contract security challenges and compare them with Ethernaut-style EVM security exercises.

Week 16 — Final Exam

The final exam covers all five CLOs across blockchain fundamentals, Ethereum, Polkadot, DeFi, TON, security, and governance.