Digital assets, tokenization, stablecoins, and AI.
MIT Sloan executive education courses, the MIT Digital Currency Experiment and the research it produced, and a live demo of how blockchain works.
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Courses
Blockchain Technologies: Business Innovation and Application
Develop an understanding of blockchain technology and its business applications, and learn to evaluate where distributed ledgers create real economic value.
Blockchain and Crypto Applications: From Decentralized Finance to Web 3
Gain an understanding of the future of blockchain technology and the possibilities that lie ahead for crypto — from finance to Web 3 — with MIT Sloan faculty and experts in the field.
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The Experiment
4,494
undergraduates — every MIT student — offered Bitcoin.
When natural early adopters are forced to wait, they quit — and take everyone with them.
One of the largest field experiments on technology diffusion ever run. Its finding changed how new technologies get seeded — published in Science.
MIT Sloan Alumni · 4 min · plays via youtube-nocookie.com
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Artificial Intelligence
Some Simple Economics of AGI ARXIV
A unified economic theory of the AGI transition. As the cost to automate falls faster than the cost to verify, a widening Measurability Gap separates what agents can execute from what humans can afford to verify — making verification, not intelligence, the binding constraint on growth. The framework partitions work into four regimes, formalizes measurability-biased technical change, and shows how unverified deployment drifts toward a Hollow Economy of counterfeit utility unless observability, accelerated mastery, and graceful degradation expand society's verification bandwidth.
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Research & Articles
When Early Adopters Don't Adopt SCIENCE Catalini, Tucker · 2017 Some Simple Economics of the Blockchain CACM Catalini, Gans · 2017 Seeding the S-Curve? The Role of Early Adopters in Diffusion Catalini, Tucker · 2016 The Digital Privacy Paradox and Choice Architecture: Evidence from an Experiment in Fintech MISQ Athey, Catalini, Moehring, Tucker · 2026 Initial Coin Offerings and the Value of Crypto Tokens Catalini, Gans · 2018
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Media
Talks on the economics of the blockchain at the MIT ICT Conference and the CIO Symposium, the road from Libra to stablecoins and CBDCs, short explainers — and the interactive Live Blockchain demo.
Talks, videos & slides →