Navigating Decentralized Finance,
Edition 1 From Blockchain to Crypto Assets and TokenizationEditors: By Pascal Egloff, Ernesto Turnes and Stefan Neumann
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Description
Navigating Decentralized Finance – From Blockchain to Crypto Assets and Tokenization provides a comprehensive, structured approach to understanding how blockchain and distributed ledger technology (DLT) are reshaping the financial ecosystem. Combining foundational knowledge with advanced analysis, this textbook bridges complex concepts with clarity, offering an indispensable resource for students, scholars, and industry professionals.
Beginning with the technological underpinnings of DLT, the text examines critical milestones and innovations driving decentralization in finance. It systematically explores prominent crypto assets, smart contracts, tokenization, central bank digital currencies (CBDCs), stablecoins, nonfubigle tokens (NFTs), and some of the underlying regulatory frameworks. Readers gain a nuanced understanding of the decentralizede Finance (DeFi) landscape, supported by practical case studies and balanced insights into how traditional financial institutions are adapting to these disruptive technologies - and how regulators are responding across different jurisdictions.
Key Features
- Connects blockchain technology with financial applications, highlighting its financing and investment opportunities.
- Contains more than 120 unique illustrations and examples to contextualize concepts and deepen understanding.
- Adopts a global, interdisciplinary perspective, incorporating technical, business, finance, IT, legal, regulation, and strategy aspects.
- Includes an instructor website with a complete set of lecture slides supporting undergraduate, graduate, certificate and professional course faculty.
About the author
By Pascal Egloff, Lecturer, University of Applied Sciences of Eastern Switzerland (OST), St.Gallen, Switzerland; Ernesto Turnes, Lecturer and professor of Banking and Finance, University of Applied Sciences of Eastern Switzerland (OST), St.Gallen, Switzerland and Stefan Neumann, Lecturer of Banking and Finance Eastern Switzerland University of Applied Sciences, USA
2. Introduction to Technologies
3. Blockchain Technology
4. Other DLT Technologies
5. Introduction to Key Elements of DLT Infrastructure
6. Crypto Assets: Categorization, Wallets, Exchanges, and Investing
7. Crypto Assets: Native Tokens
8. Introduction to Applications of DLT
9. Tokenization and Nonnative Tokens.
10. Decentralized Finance
11. The Use of Crypto Assets in Criminal Activities
- PPTs
- Chapter 01 - Introduction to Fundamentals of DLT.pptx
- Chapter 02 - Introduction to Technologies.pptx
- Chapter 03 - Blockchain Technology.pptx
- Chapter 04 - Other DLT Technologies.pptx
- Chapter 05 - Introduction to Key Elements of DLT.pptx
- Chapter 06 - Crypto Assets.pptx
- Chapter 07 - Crypto Assets Native Tokens.pptx
- Chapter 08 - Introduction to Applications of DLT.pptx
- Chapter 09 - Tokenization and Nonnative Tokens.pptx
- Chapter 10 - Decentralized Finance.pptx
- Chapter 11 - The Use of Crypto Assets.pptx