Welcome to the RAM Crypto School 2026, a specialized program conducted in collaboration with the Raising A Mathematician (RAM) Foundation. Join gifted high school students from across India to explore the world of blockchains and consensus, with a generous splash of cryptoeconomics!

Course Materials:

1. Tim Roughgarden’s Foundations of Blockchains (TR)
2. Elaine Shi’s Foundations of Distributed Consensus and Blockchains (ES)
3. Decentralized Thoughts

Coursework:

• Week 0: Pre-reading
  • The Only Crypto Story You Need, by Matt Levine
• Week 1 (Sep 6): A peek into consensus and cryptoeconomics (through transaction fee mechanism design)
  • TR lecture 1.1-1.4 (An introduction to blockchains and the state machine replication (SMR) problem)
  • TR lecture 11.1-11.7 (Why transaction fee mechanisms?)