Specialized Training Center | Fundamentals of Digital Assets

Fundamentals of Digital Assets

Fundamentals of Digital Assets
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Introduction

Blockchain-based assets have gained maturity over the last few years and are integrating into mainstream finance. The potential of digital assets and their use within smart-contract ecosystems have been understood by major market players.

While blockchain-based assets remain an innovative niche, the secret is out, and the world is preparing for a shift to digitize existing real-world assets. The digitalization of assets will provoke disruptive change and bring a new paradigm for innovation, regulation, and trade.

This course navigates between the disruptive and complementary nature of digital assets and how they will affect the “real” economy. Participants will gain an understanding of the dynamics of Decentralized Finance (DeFi) and its applications for both government and private organizations. At the end of the course, participants will be able to lead conversations and guide choices needed to ensure their organization is ready to embrace digital assets.


Goals

Participants will learn:

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

TRAINING OBJECTIVES

  • 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.

 

 


Training Methodology

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

 


Target Groups

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.


Program Content

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.

Code Date of meeting Place Course Price
DIT7 14 - 18 July 2024 Online training $3,900 Register
DIT7 14 - 18 July 2024 Dubai-Emirates $3,900 Register
DIT17 22 - 26 September 2024 Online training $3,900 Register
DIT17 22 - 26 September 2024 Dubai-Emirates $3,900 Register
DIT27 1 - 5 December 2024 Online training $3,900 Register
DIT27 1 - 5 December 2024 Dubai-Emirates $3,900 Register