ISEM 578 - Decentralized Finance

(3 semester hours)
Prerequisites: None
Description: Blockchain is a fundamental disruption in the history of ledger technology, and it will deeply impact the future of all ledger-centric institutions such as central banks, commercial banks, companies and exchanges, as well as the currencies and assets that are transacted and traded inside them. This course covers Decentralized Finance (DeFi), the innovations and risks of DeFi, the range of existing DeFi applications and protocols, the extent to which DeFi is disrupting traditional finance, Fungible Tokens and Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs), and Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs).