Navigating Decentralized Finance

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.

• Features clear, accessible explanations, connecting blockchain technology and infrastructure with business and financial applications
• Showcases more than 120 unique graphics and practical case studies
• 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