Hi!

Welcome to the "DeFi Punk 101: Finance with Cypherpunk Values" course!

This course is based on a talk by Hsiao-Wei Wang, Co-Executive Director of the Ethereum Foundation, at DappCon 2025.

Why it matters: her talk introduced the idea of DeFi Punk applying cypherpunk values like privacy, decentralization, and openness to today’s DeFi protocols. The Ethereum Foundation now uses these principles to guide its treasury strategy and funding decisions.

What you’ll learn:

• The 8 principles of DeFi Punk
• A simple scoring system to check if a protocol is truly decentralized and freedom-preserving

Time required: ~20 min

By the end, you’ll be able to answer:

• What is DeFiPunk?
• Why it’s important?
• Score how Punk is any DeFi project

One last thing ✨

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No obligation. You can go through the whole course without signing up.

But if you want the dashboard, it takes 5 seconds.

Sign up here

and then enroll into course here

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Happy learning 💜
- The Web3Privacy Now team