Course Methodology

This course utilizes presentations, videos, practical examples, group discussions, small individual exercises, and larger group exercises.

Course Objectives

By the end of the course, participants will be able to:

• Explain existing token types and fundamentals of digital assets
• Recognize the economic dynamics of Decentralized Finance (DeFi) applications and the impact that DeFi has on “traditional finance”
• Compare government projects to digitize currencies (CBDCs) and real world assets
• Interpret the legal implications and legal classification frameworks for digital assets
• Apply DeFi and digital asset concepts and make strategic choices within their organization

Target Audience

This course is suitable for anyone working with assets that can be digitalized.
While this courses welcomes participants of all industries, this course is particularly interesting to financial institutions, central banks, and regulatory institutions. The course is also relevant for managers, directors or CFOs who are forward thinking, regardless of the industry they are working in.

Target Competencies

• Blockchain concepts
• Digital asset classification
• Digital asset economics
• Decentralized Finance mechanisms
• Innovation management

Introduction

• Historical perspective of money and assets
• Introduction to Digital Assets
• Fundamental blockchain concepts (Smart-contracts, etc.)
• Blockchain transactions: storage, fees, etc.
• Governance
• Infrastructure and Ecosystem (Layer 1 vs Layer 2, etc.)

Digital assets and tokens

• Custody of digital assets
• The economics of native tokens (Proof-of-Work, Proof-of-Stake, etc.)
• The economics of non-native tokens
• Stablecoins
• Tokenization of real-world assets (RWAs)
• Token valuation and assessment

Decentralized finance (DeFi)

• Components of decentralized finance
• Decentralized exchanges (CEx, DEx, CEDEFI, etc.)
• Liquidity mining
• Borrow and lending
• Leverage
• Automated market making
• Yield farming

Regulatory aspects

• Token classification
• Markets in Crypto-Assets (MiCa) regulation
• Anti-Money Laundering (AML) regulation

Business considerations

• Impact on traditional finance
• Best practice