Navigating Decentralized Finance

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. This comprehensive textbook covers blockchain technologies, infrastructure, applications, and 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, experts consider 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 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 faculty across the globe.

Pascal Egloff is a lecturer at the University of Applied Sciences of Eastern Switzerland (OST) in St.Gallen. In the Competence Centre for Banking and Finance, he leads research and service projects, teaches in the context of education and training and appears regularly as a speaker and panelist. His areas of expertise include blockchain, digital and crypto assets, and financial innovation. He is a member of the Swiss Fintech Innovations Association (SFTI) and president of the Digital Assets Switzerland (DAS) association. He is also a member of the Digital Assets Forum of the Swiss Bankers Association and an active member of the Swiss DLT community. He founded the Blockchain for Business Forum in 2018.