Understanding Decentralized Finance

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How DeFi Is Changing the Future of Money

By Rhian Lewis

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Understanding Decentralized Finance by Rhian Lewis is a comprehensive guide that explores the burgeoning world of decentralized finance, often referred to as DeFi. It provides insights into how this financial ecosystem operates without traditional intermediaries like banks, utilising blockchain technology and smart contracts. The book delves into various DeFi applications, innovations, and their potential impact on the future of finance, making it an essential read for anyone interested in the intersection of finance and technology.
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If you're curious about how blockchain is revolutionising the financial world or interested in the inner workings of cryptocurrencies, this book offers insightful explanations and practical insights. It may appeal to you if you're keen on exploring the future of finance and the technology driving decentralised solutions.

Understanding Decentralized Finance

Understand the past, present and future of DeFi to unlock new opportunities, valuable takeaways and gain a competitive advantage in this emerging and rapidly-moving sector.

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Understanding Decentralized Finance demystifies DeFi, locating the integration points between decentralised and centralised finance to help finance professionals unlock valuable opportunities.

DeFi - the next evolution of cryptocurrency - has brought a new wave of investors into the world of finance. As fintechs and financial institutions seek to integrate with DeFi, this book explores its history, its present context, and its future. It explains the world of DeFi by comparing it to the traditional finance sector, highlighting points of similarity, difference, and integration.

Understanding Decentralized Finance explores the technologies underlying the DeFi market and how they differ from those of traditional financial markets. It scrutinises the difference between centralised and decentralised cryptocurrency exchanges, how NFTs fit into DeFi, and how collectibles can be financialised. Readers will also find out how collateralised loans, derivatives, margin trading, and liquidity provision work in a world where there is no centralised institution to coordinate these activities - and how regulators in different jurisdictions are ensuring that financial regulations keep up with these innovations.

With examples from key actors in the field, including the movement of luxury organisations like Christie's and Sotheby's into the NFT space and the SushiSwap vampire attack, this is an essential read for anyone working in finance, fintech, and technology who needs to understand the fast-moving world of DeFi.

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Rhian Lewis's Understanding Decentralized Finance is praised for its comprehensive approach to the complex world of DeFi, offering insights into its promise, evolution, and current challenges. The book effectively demystifies jargon and interconnects historical financial developments with nascent DeFi technologies. It's particularly noted for its accessibility to both newcomers and experienced enthusiasts, helping readers understand the potential and challenges of integrating new financial systems.

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ISBN: 9781398609372

Publisher: Kogan Page Ltd

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 03 April 2023

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Kogan Page Ltd

Audience: General / adult, Tertiary education, Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 14.0mm

Width: 156.0mm

Height: 235.0mm

Weight: 365g

Pages: 232

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About the Author

Rhian Lewis is a consultant software engineer and former digital journalist at The Times who is a regular international conference speaker and panellist on all things blockchain and cryptocurrency. She launched the altcoin portfolio tracker countmycrypto.com, co-founded the London Women in Bitcoin meetup group in 2014 and has acted as an advisor and strategist on various blockchain projects for the last seven years. She blogs on cryptocurrency and is the author of The Cryptocurrency Revolution (Kogan Page). She is based near Plymouth, the UK.