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Beyond bitcoin decentralised finance and the end of banks

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Publication details: Icon Books, 2022Description: xiv, 242 pages ; 20 cmISBN:
  • 9781785788307
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Contents:
Intro Praise — Title Page — Contents — Epigraph — Acknowledgements — Timeline of major events — Prologue — 1: Introduction — 2: A matter of trust — 3: Ethereum and the rise of the smart contract — 4: Financial institutions — targets on their backs — 5: A short note to our banker, our friend — 6: ICO mania — aspirants, chancers and crooks — 7: Bridging DeFi and TradFi — stablecoins — 8: Depositing and lending: reinventing the core — Compound — 9: Yield farming and Yearn — 10: Decentralised exchanges (DEXs) and Uniswap — 11: Oracles! — — 12: Reinventing insurance — Nexus Mutual — 13: The scalability trilemma and its discontents — 14: Derivatives — 15: NFTs — beyond WTF — 16: Mutants and strange creatures — WeirdFi — 17: Risks aplenty — 18: Into the thicket — Wyoming — 19: Fintech — lipstick on a ... — 20: The great crypto energy debate — 21: Who will benefit, who will get hurt? — 22: Central banks and stablecoins — 23: The future — Postscript — Breaking news.
Summary: 'After over a decade of Bitcoin, which has now moved beyond lore and hype into an increasingly-robust star in the firmament of global assets, a new and more important question has arisen: what happens beyond Bitcoin? The answer is decentralised finance 'DeFi'. Tech and finance experts Steven Boykey Sidley and Simon Dingle argue that DeFi which enables all manner of financial transactions to take place directly, person to person, without the involvement of financial institutions, will redesign the cogs and wheels in the engines of trust, and make the remarkable rise of Bitcoin look quaint by comparison. It will disrupt and displace fine and respectable companies, if not entire industries. Sidley and Dingle explain how DeFi works, introduce the organisations and individuals that comprise the new industry, and identify the likely winners and losers in the coming revolution.'--Page 4 of cover.
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Intro Praise — Title Page — Contents — Epigraph — Acknowledgements — Timeline of major events — Prologue — 1: Introduction — 2: A matter of trust — 3: Ethereum and the rise of the smart contract — 4: Financial institutions — targets on their backs — 5: A short note to our banker, our friend — 6: ICO mania — aspirants, chancers and crooks — 7: Bridging DeFi and TradFi — stablecoins — 8: Depositing and lending: reinventing the core — Compound — 9: Yield farming and Yearn — 10: Decentralised exchanges (DEXs) and Uniswap — 11: Oracles! — — 12: Reinventing insurance — Nexus Mutual — 13: The scalability trilemma and its discontents — 14: Derivatives — 15: NFTs — beyond WTF — 16: Mutants and strange creatures — WeirdFi — 17: Risks aplenty — 18: Into the thicket — Wyoming — 19: Fintech — lipstick on a ... — 20: The great crypto energy debate — 21: Who will benefit, who will get hurt? — 22: Central banks and stablecoins — 23: The future — Postscript — Breaking news.

'After over a decade of Bitcoin, which has now moved beyond lore and hype into an increasingly-robust star in the firmament of global assets, a new and more important question has arisen: what happens beyond Bitcoin? The answer is decentralised finance 'DeFi'. Tech and finance experts Steven Boykey Sidley and Simon Dingle argue that DeFi which enables all manner of financial transactions to take place directly, person to person, without the involvement of financial institutions, will redesign the cogs and wheels in the engines of trust, and make the remarkable rise of Bitcoin look quaint by comparison. It will disrupt and displace fine and respectable companies, if not entire industries. Sidley and Dingle explain how DeFi works, introduce the organisations and individuals that comprise the new industry, and identify the likely winners and losers in the coming revolution.'--Page 4 of cover.

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