Description
DeFi and the Future of Finance is a set of four courses that focus on decentralized finance. The final course is called DeFi Risks and Opportunities. It is essential that you complete the first three courses: I. DeFi Infrastructure; II. DeFi Primitives; and III. DeFi Deep Dive before beginning the fourth course. The course starts with the premise that an analysis of any new technology must clearly gauge the risks and challenges. Given that DeFi is only a few years old there are plenty of risks. The course begins with the most obvious risk: smart contract risk. Smart contracts are foundational for DeFi. The code of these contracts is public - opening a clear attack vector for hackers. That is, in traditional finance, hackers need to break into a system to get access to the code and data. In DeFi, everything is open source.There are many other risks studied including: Governance risk; Oracle risk; Scaling risk; Decentralized Exchange or DEX risk; Custodial risk; Environmental risk; and Regulatory risk.
What Will You Learn?
- Blockchain mechanics
- Analysis of the most important risks that DeFi faces
Requirements
- Completion of Course 3: Decentralized Finance (DeFi) Deep Dive
Curriculum
Course consist of total 3h 45min of content, in total.
Section 1: Module 1: Smart Contract Risk
Section 2: Module 2: Governance, DNS, Oracle Risk, DEX and Custodial Risks
Section 3: Module 3: Scaling Risk
Section 4: Module 4: Regulatory and Environmental Risk
Section 5: Module 5: Winners and Losers
About the Instructor
Campbell R. Harvey is Professor of Finance at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina and a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He served as President of the American Finance Association in 2016 and as Editor of the Journal of Finance from 2006-2012. Over the past seven years, Professor Harvey has taught Innovation and Cryptoventures which focuses on decentralized finance and blockchain technology. His book DeFi and the Future of Finance was published in 2021 by John Wiley and Sons. He just launched on BitDegree a four-course learning experience under the same name.
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