Navigating Decentralized Finance - Ernesto Turnes

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Résumé :
Navigating Decentralized Finance: From Blockchain to Crypto Assets and Tokenization provides an in-depth overview of how blockchain and digital assets drive financial economics with a truly global approach. This comprehensive textbook covers blockchain technologies, infrastructure, applications, and regulatory and legal aspects, offering both a quick introduction for beginners and numerous, practical case studies to engage advanced students and working professionals. Here, after discussing blockchain fundamentals, experts consider blockchain contracts, scalability, CBDCs, tokenization, stablecoins, NFTs, decentralized finance (DeFi), and the metaverse, among other topics, with applications explored across the financial world.

Each chapter adopts a consistent structure and pedagogy accompanied by over 120 illustrations across the book, as well as a blockchain glossary. An instructor website includes a complete set of lecture slides supporting undergraduate, graduate, certificate, and faculty across the globe....

Biographie:
1. Introduction to Fundamentals of DLT
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...

Sommaire:

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.