Programmable Society with Blockchain and Smart Contracts

This is the home of course "Programmable Society" at KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden (course code DD2585).

Martin Monperrus (monperrus.eth) (Professor), Javier Ron (TA), Mojtaba Eshghie (TA), TBA

All communications happen on this repo as issue / PR, or by email to programmable-society-ta@kth.se.

See 2023 edition of the course.

Agenda

Reference schedule is at https://www.kth.se/social/course/DD2585/. The lab queue is https://queue.csc.kth.se/Queue/TODO.

1. Oct 27 2025 Introduction

Intro: Course introduction (Teaching philosophy, Flipped classroom, Expectations, Team, Agenda, Grading, Communication, Master's theses and Research). Topic introduction.

2. Nov 4 2025 Languages

• smart contract languages

3. Nov 11 2025 DeFi

• smart contracts for finance (Defi)

4. Nov 17 2025 Engineering

• tool support for smart contracts
• secure smart contracts, verification
• smart contract libraries

5. Nov 25 2025 Art

• smart contracts for art (NFT)

6. Dec 2 2025 Infrastructure

• blockchain infrastructure
• blockchain monitoring & Analytics

7. Dec 12 2025 DAO

• digital identities
• smart contracts for governance (DAO)

Topics for all weeks

• philosophy and ethics of the blockchain paradigm
• empirical knowledge about smart contracts

Format

Teaching style is flipped classroom, grading is project-based, see examination rules at https://github.com/KTH/programmable-society/blob/2023/grading-criteria.md