
Digital Asset Revolution
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- Cover
- Copyright
- Contents
- List of Contributors
- Preface
- Chapter 1: Digital Asset Revolution
- Introduction: The building blocks of disruption
- The rise of digital assets and the future of financial services
- Web 3 and the new Internet of value
- The Golden Nine: Essential functions of the financial industry
- A taxonomy for digital assets
- Decentralized finance is eating Wall Street
- DeFi: A new architecture for the financial system
- The Golden Nine: How DeFi is reimagining Wall Street
- A taxonomy of digital assets
- Cryptocurrencies aka digital money
- Protocol tokens
- Central bank digital currencies
- Non-fungible tokens
- Stablecoins
- Securities tokens
- Governance tokens
- Exchange tokens
- Natural asset tokens
- Implementation challenges of DeFi
- The technology is not ready for prime time
- The energy use is unsustainable
- Governments will stifle or twist it
- Powerful incumbents of the old paradigm will usurp it
- The incentives are inadequate for adoption:
- Blockchain is a job killer
- Governance is like herding cats
- Criminals will use it
- Conclusion: The coming conflagration
- Chapter 2: Cosmos and Polkadot for the Enterprise
- Interoperability in brief
- The challenge of interoperability
- Introducing Cosmos
- Cosmos' origins and ethos
- The core technology components of Cosmos
- Metrics of Cosmos success
- Introducing Polkadot
- Polkadot's origins and ethos
- The core technology components of Polkadot
- How enterprise can use Polkadot
- The Polkadot ecosystem and its impact
- What do decision makers need to know?
- Key similarities
- Key differences
- Conclusions on interoperability
- Chapter 3: The Promise of Community-Owned Prediction Markets
- Prediction markets in brief
- The promise of prediction markets
- Classic use case: Sports and political betting
- The problems of sportsbooks
- The perils of centralized betting exchanges
- The centralized governance problem
- The future is clear: Community-owned betting markets
- Introducing the crypto network
- Problems with decentralized governance
- Introducing prediction market-based governance
- Governance design for a simple prediction market
- Conclusion: The inevitability of crypto networks
- Chapter 4: Going Cashless With CBDCS
- Introduction: A new paradigm for money
- Disruptive technology makes for new policy options
- Overview of the digital dollar
- How digital currencies differ from other financial assets
- Attributes of the digital dollar
- The need for infrastructure innovation
- Road map to a new banking system
- Attributes of a digital global reserve currency
- The goal of modernizing global economic architecture
- The need to modernize global financial regulation
- Conclusions: This is just the beginning
- Diversity makes for a healthy marketplace
- Blockchain will transform other financial assets
- Currency innovation will unleash economic innovation
- Chapter 5: Introduction to Stablecoins
- Stablecoins in brief
- The context for stablecoins
- The economics behind the protocols
- Governance of stablecoins
- Gold or bitcoin, a stable commodity?
- Types of stablecoins
- Asset-collateralized stablecoins
- Non-collateralized stablecoins
- Hybrid stablecoin models
- Top stablecoins
- Tether (USDT)
- USD Coin (USDC)
- Binance USD (BUSD)
- Dai (DAI)
- Frax (FRAX)
- TrueUSD (TUSD)
- Paxos Dollar (USDP)
- Gemini (GUSD)
- Using stablecoins: A few ideas
- Conclusion and review
- Chapter 6: Financial Derivatives With Blockchain and Smart Contracts
- Blockchain-based derivatives in brief
- Derivative contracts on blockchains
- Levels of applications
- Standardization, transparency, and interoperability
- Collateral, settlement, and automation
- Derivatives on public blockchains
- LuxDeco and the world's first cryptobond
- The control bond
- An experimental bond
- Key takeaways on crypto derivatives
- Chapter 7: Oil, Natural Gas, and Blockchain
- Energy use case in brief
- Introduction to the oil and gas market
- Investing in oil and gas
- The downside of conventional direct investments
- Streamlining direct investments through blockchain
- Digital securities and tokenization
- Trading oil and gas
- Poor integration, long-term contracts, and opacity
- Smart contracts
- The utility of natural resource tokens
- Consuming and conserving natural gas
- Waste and inefficiency
- Natural gas-powered data centers
- Implementation challenges
- Scalability of the platform
- Governance of an investment platform
- Interoperability with other platforms
- Regulation and regulatory uncertainty
- Implications and key takeaways
- Chapter 8: Non-Fungible Tokens
- NFTs in brief
- Introduction to NFTs
- The Salvator Metaversi
- Ease of use: The trade-offs
- Early adoption of use cases
- Christie's: A case study of incumbent innovation
- The realities of NFT ownership
- What exactly is ownership anyway?
- The bundle of rights for NFTs
- NFTs as assets
- How NFTs engage communities
- NFTs as self-fulfilling prophecies
- NFTs as models of engagement
- NFTs for commodities
- The myth of mass commodification
- From global supply chains to local makerspaces
- Implementation challenges of NFTs
- Legal and regulatory unknowns
- Tax and accounting unknowns
- Lack of digital technology expertise
- Conclusions and recommendations
- Acronyms and Abbreviations
- About the Blockchain Research Institute
- About the Contributors
- Mohamed El-Masri
- J. Christopher Giancarlo
- Alan Majer
- Massimo Morini
- Alyze Sam
- Alex Tapscott
- Don Tapscott
- Anthony D. Williams
- Andrew Fennell Young
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Index
- Back Cover
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