Navigating Decentralized Finance: From Blockchain to Crypto Assets and Tokenization (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780443274084)

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. Easy to digest and yet comprehensive in its treatment, this textbook covers blockchain technologies, infrastructure, applications, 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, this expert author team considers 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. These are 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 professional course faculty across the globe.

Author: Pascal Egloff, Ernesto Turnes, Stefan Neumann
ISBN-10: 0443274088
ISBN-13: 9780443274084
Publisher: Academic Press
Language: English
Published: 08/01/2025
Pages: 400
Format: Paperback