ECON 454
Introduction to Cryptocurrency Finance
Grades
3.27
Average grade awarded in ECON 454. Not a student rating: this is what the grades were.
In the A range
33%
of the 36 letter grades
D, F or W
0.0%
of every letter grade awarded, plus withdrawals
Taken pass/no pass
0%
nobody in the record took it pass/no pass
The registrar's own records: 36 grades over 2 terms, Fall 2021 to Fall 2025. Every instructor is pooled here.
What is inside that record
No summer session is in that record.
The table below splits them, and term averages across those 2 terms ran 3.26 to 3.28.
Historical grades for all professors, across recorded terms. The course summary above includes all professors.
- A+ 2 · 5.6%
- A 7 · 19.4%
- A- 3 · 8.3%
- B+ 9 · 25.0%
- B 7 · 19.4%
- B- 5 · 13.9%
- C+ 2 · 5.6%
- C- 1 · 2.8%
Percentages are of the 36 letter grades. Grey bars are non-letter outcomes.
How the non-letter outcomes are counted
They are excluded from the GPA entirely rather than scored, because counting a P as a 4.0 would be a fabrication.
By instructor
| Instructor | Predicted GPA | Raw | n | Terms | A range | Workload | Winter 2027 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TSAI, BENJAMIN S reviews ↗ | 3.27 | 3.27 | 36 | 2 | 33% | - | not teaching it |
Why Predicted is not the Raw average
“Predicted” is shrunk toward the course average, which is itself shrunk toward the department, so an instructor with a handful of students sits near the course mean rather than topping the list.
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Workload and assignments
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From the registrar's catalog
Lecture, three hours. Limited to Master of Quantitative Economics students. Requisite: course 409 or 432. Introduction to financial concepts in cryptocurrency industry. Addresses regulatory issues around crypto currencies with institutional infrastructure that is starting to be built around this space. In-depth exploration of the historical performance and valuation of cryptocurrencies, with analysis of risk associated with the price. Examination of the development of the crypto derivatives market, both with futures and options. Discussion of centralized finance, staking, and decentralized finance space. Introduction of concept of security tokens and tokenization of hard assets and digital assets. Covers emerging field of non-fungible tokens (NFT). Introduction of both asset and wealth management in the blockchain and cryptocurrency space relative to materials covered, including the instructor's field experience. Letter grading.
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