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Blockchain & Digital Assets for Finance Professionals

Evaluate blockchain-based financial products, digital money, payment lifecycles, tokenized assets, institutional risks, and responsible client recommendations.

45 lessons20h 0mbeginneroliseh Geneis

About this course

Evaluate blockchain-based financial products, digital money, payment lifecycles, tokenized assets, institutional risks, and responsible client recommendations.

What you'll learn

1. Financial Infrastructure Without the Hype 2. How Blockchain Transactions Work 3. Smart Contracts and Programmability 4. The Digital Money Spectrum 5. Stablecoins in Payments and Treasury 6. CBDCs and Tokenized Central-Bank Money 7. Cross-Border Payments and FX 8. Mobile Money, Remittances, and African Corridors 9. Tokenized Assets and Real-World Assets 10. Tokenized Funds, Treasuries, and Securities 11. Custody and Institutional Wallets 12. Digital-Asset Market Structure 13. DeFi, Lending, Staking, and Yield 14. Regulation, Risk, and Responsible Advice 15. Client Advisory Capstone

Course modules

15 sections · 45 lessons

Financial Infrastructure Without the Hype

Identify where a shared ledger could improve a financial process and where conventional infrastructure remains preferable.

3 lessons
  1. 1.0The Financial Problem Comes First
  2. 1.1Shared Ledgers and Institutional Reality
  3. 1.2Blockchain or Better Database?

How Blockchain Transactions Work

Trace a transaction at the level needed for a product, risk, or client conversation.

3 lessons
  1. 2.0From Instruction to Finality
  2. 2.1Public, Permissioned, and Hybrid Networks
  3. 2.2Settlement Is Not Always Final

Smart Contracts and Programmability

Explain programmable financial logic and its dependencies without presenting code as law.

3 lessons
  1. 3.0Conditional Financial Instructions
  2. 3.1Oracles, Administrators, and Exceptions
  3. 3.2What Should Not Be Automated

The Digital Money Spectrum

Compare monetary claims by issuer, backing, access, redemption, legal status, and settlement role.

3 lessons
  1. 4.0Money Is Somebody's Liability
  2. 4.1Stablecoins, Tokenized Deposits, and Tokenized Funds
  3. 4.2Choosing the Right Digital Money

Stablecoins in Payments and Treasury

Evaluate a stablecoin as payment and treasury infrastructure rather than as a token ticker.

3 lessons
  1. 5.0Issuance, Reserves, and Redemption
  2. 5.1Payment and Treasury Use Cases
  3. 5.2De-Peg and Redemption Decision

CBDCs and Tokenized Central-Bank Money

Explain CBDCs at the right altitude for client and institutional conversations.

3 lessons
  1. 6.0Retail and Wholesale CBDCs
  2. 6.1Adoption, Privacy, and Banking Implications
  3. 6.2CBDC, Deposit Token, or Stablecoin?

Cross-Border Payments and FX

Map end-to-end payment economics and dependencies across jurisdictions.

3 lessons
  1. 7.0The Cross-Border Payment Chain
  2. 7.1Cost, Speed, Prefunding, and Liquidity
  3. 7.2Payment Design Under Constraints

Mobile Money, Remittances, and African Corridors

Evaluate stablecoin-mobile-money integration in the realities of African payment markets.

3 lessons
  1. 8.0Stablecoin to Mobile-Money Lifecycle
  2. 8.1Off-Ramp Liquidity and Consumer Protection
  3. 8.2Regional Corridor Workshop

Tokenized Assets and Real-World Assets

Explain what a token represents and where enforceable rights and records reside.

3 lessons
  1. 9.0Asset, Legal Claim, and Token
  2. 9.1Issuance to Redemption
  3. 9.2Tokenization Suitability

Tokenized Funds, Treasuries, and Securities

Understand production institutional products and distinguish them from pilots and announcements.

3 lessons
  1. 10.0Tokenized Treasuries and Money-Market Funds
  2. 10.1Securities, Private Credit, and Collateral
  3. 10.2Production, Pilot, or Press Release?

Custody and Institutional Wallets

Ask informed questions about authorization, safeguarding, recovery, and insolvency.

3 lessons
  1. 11.0Keys, Wallets, and Transaction Authority
  2. 11.1Self-Custody, Custodians, MPC, and HSMs
  3. 11.2Safeguarding and Insolvency Due Diligence

Digital-Asset Market Structure

Describe how institutional transactions move through venues, brokers, liquidity providers, custodians, and settlement systems.

3 lessons
  1. 12.0Exchanges, Brokers, and Liquidity Providers
  2. 12.1CEXs, DEXs, AMMs, and Settlement
  3. 12.2Market Failure and Counterparty Exposure

DeFi, Lending, Staking, and Yield

Recognize economic mechanisms and risk sources without learning speculative usage.

3 lessons
  1. 13.0Lending and Automated Collateral
  2. 13.1Staking and Network Economics
  3. 13.2Yield Is Never Free

Regulation, Risk, and Responsible Advice

Identify regulatory touchpoints and communicate product risk without giving unqualified legal or investment advice.

3 lessons
  1. 14.0Who Regulates What?
  2. 14.1Global Direction and African Context
  3. 14.2Suitability, Disclosure, and Saying Not Yet

Client Advisory Capstone

Produce and communicate a defensible recommendation for a real financial need.

3 lessons
  1. 15.0Diagnose the Client Need
  2. 15.1Compare Instruments and Controls
  3. 15.2Present the Recommendation
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