Blockchain, Crypto and Defi Bridging Finance and Technology

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores:	Di Maggio, Marco, 1985- author (author)
Formato:	Libro electrónico
Idioma:	Inglés
Publicado:	Hoboken, New Jersey : John Wiley & Sons, Inc [2025]
Edición:	First edition
Materias:	Blockchains (Databases) Cryptocurrencies.
Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:	https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009852333006719

Tabla de Contenidos:

Cover
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1 Chain Reactions: From Basement Miners to Blockchain Revolutionaries
Preface
1. Introduction
2. Blockchain in 16 Questions
1. Isn't blockchain just a database like an Excel file?
2. What Is a Hash?
3. What Is a Block?
4. What Is a Merkle Tree? How Is the Merkle Root Calculated?
5. Why Are Transactions in Blocks?
6. What Is a Node and a P2P Network?
7. What Is a Consensus Mechanism?
8. How Does Bitcoin Fit into This?
9. Who Are Miners? And What Do They Do?
10. Why Are They Doing All of This Work?
11. Putting All of These Elements Together, How Does PoW Work?
12. What Happens If Two Blocks Are Mined at the Same Time?
13. What Prevents People from Double Spending Their Digital Currency?
14. What Would It Take to Tamper with a PoW Blockchain?
15. How Are Transactions Selected to Be Included in a Block?
16. What Happens If the Wrong Transaction Is Submitted?
3. Where It All Started: Bitcoin
History of Bitcoin: Early Concepts
Who Is Satoshi Nakamoto?
Timeline of Bitcoin
2009: Creation
2010-2012: Early Days of Bitcoin
2013-2016: Bitcoin's Expansion and Turbulence
2017-2021: Mainstream Adoption and Market Volatility
2022: Regulatory Challenges and Market Corrections
2023: Resilience and Institutional Integration
Is Bitcoin the digital gold?
Ownership and Identity
4. Isn't It Too Slow and Clunky to Be Used for Payments? Enter the Lighting Network
5. Energy Consumption
6. Concluding Remarks
Coding Exercises
Creating Blockchain on Python
End-of-Chapter Questions
Multiple-Choice Questions
Open Questions
Chapter 2 Ethereum: The "Windows" to the Blockchain Universe-Now Loading Smart Contracts and Oracle Magic
Preface
1. Introduction.
Historical Background
2. Ethereum 1.0: Key Concepts
3. Ethereum 2.0
The Beacon Chain
The Merge: When Two Become One
Sharding
How Sharding Works
Consensus Algorithm: Proof of Stake
Staking: The High Roller's Game
Consensus Mechanism: The Art of Blockchain Politics
Rewards and Penalties: The Carrot and the Stick
The Ghost of Inaction: Nothing at Stake Problem
The Battleground of Network Security
Economic Incentives
Unintended Consequences: The Aristocracy of Cryptocurrency
Ethereum Improvement Proposals (EIPs)
4. Burn‐and‐Mint Model
Transaction Fees Before EIP‐1559
The Mechanics of EIP‐1559
Example of Burn and Mint in EIP‐1559
Impact of EIP‐1559
Dynamic Burn‐and‐Mint
5. Ethereum as an Operating System: Smart Contracts
Development Platforms
The Birth of Smart Contracts
6. Important Components of Smart Contracts: Oracles
Beyond the Veil of the Blockchain
The Trust Conundrum
What can go wrong?
7. Latest Developments in Ethereum: Account Abstraction
What Is Account Abstraction?
8. Concluding Remarks
End‐of‐Chapter Questions
Multiple‐Choice Questions
Open Questions
Blockchain Explorer Project
Exercise 1: Viewing Blocks
Exercise 2: Viewing Transactions
Exercise 3: Viewing Accounts
Exercise 4: Using the API for Data Analysis
Chapter 3 Beyond Ethereum: A Gas-Guzzling Escape to the Holy Grail of Scalability
Preface
1. Introduction
1.1 Layer 1 Scalability Solutions
1.2 Layer 2 Scalability Solutions
1.3 Blockchain 3.0
2. Layer 2 Solutions: How Do They Work?
2.1 State Channels
2.2 Plasma: Scaling Ethereum Through Hierarchical Blockchains
2.3 Sidechains
2.4 Rollups
2.5 Zero-Knowledge Rollups (ZK-Rollups)
3. Alternative Blockchains (Ethereum Competitors)
3.1 Polygon
3.2 Solana
3.3 Cardano
3.4 Polkadot.
4. Cross-chain Interoperability
4.1 Bridges
4.2 Layer Zero
5. Concluding Remarks
End-of-Chapter Questions
Multiple-Choice Questions
Open Questions
Exercise 1: State Channel Implementation
Exercise 2: Rollup Contract for Batch Transactions
Exercise 3: Cross-chain Asset Transfer
Exercise 4: Plasma Chain Contract
Exercise 5: Implementing a DAO with Layer 2 Scaling
Chapter 4 Riding the Crypto Rollercoaster: How Stablecoins Keep Their Cool
Preface
1. Introduction
2. Stability Mechanisms
2.1 Gold-Backed Stablecoins
2.2 Crypto-Backed Stablecoins
2.3 Algorithmic Stablecoins
2.4 Fiat-Backed Stablecoins
3. Concluding remarks
End-of-Chapter Questions
Multiple-Choice Questions
Open Questions / Numerical Exercises
Coding Exercises
Exercise 1: Implement a Basic Stablecoin Smart Contract
Exercise 2: Analyzing Stablecoin Price Stability
Exercise 3: Simulate a Stablecoin Collateralization Mechanism
Exercise 4: Smart Contract for Algorithmic Stablecoin
Exercise 5: Stablecoin Transaction Analysis
Chapter 5 The CBDC Saga: Rewriting the Rules of Money
Preface
1. Introduction
2. How to Design it?
2.1 Retail CBDCs: Democratizing Digital Currency Access
2.2 Wholesale CBDCs: Streamlining Interbank Operations
2.3 Single-Tier or Two-Tier Systems
2.4 Account-Based or Token-Based CBDC
2.5 Balancing Act: Navigating the Trade-Offs
3. Detailed Examples of CBDC Initiatives
3.1 Different Approaches and Challenges
4. Technical Challenges in Implementing CBDCs
5. New Monetary Policy Transmission
6. Who Opposes the Introduction of CBDCs?
7. Concluding Remarks
End-of-Chapter Questions
Multiple-Choice Questions
Open Questions
Coding Exercises
Exercise 1: Creating a CBDC with a Variable Interest Rate (Solidity).
Exercise 2: Privacy-Preserving CBDC Transactions (Solidity)
Exercise 3: Implementing a Tiered Interest Rate System for CBDC (Solidity)
Chapter 6 Money Grows on Distributed Trees: The DeFi Forest of DAOs and DApps
Preface
1. Introduction
2. Key Benefits of Making Finance Decentralized
3. Overview of DeFi Protocols
4. Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs)
4.1 A Little Bit of History: The DAO
4.2 How Does a DAO Work?
5. Traditional Finance vs. DeFi Lending
5.1 Real Examples and Impacts
5.2 Utilization Rate and Interest Models
6. Case Study: Lending in the Digital Age: The Compound Blockchain Solution/with permission of President &amp
Fellowsof Harvard College
7. AAve
7.1 How Flash Loans Work
8. Concluding Remarks
End-of-Chapter Questions
Multiple-Choice Questions
Numerical Exercises
Exercise 1: Understanding Over-Collateralization
Exercise 2: Flash Loan Arbitrage Opportunity
Open Questions
Coding Exercises
Exercise 1: Deploy a Simple Lending Contract
Exercise 2: Implement a Borrowing Functionality with Collateral
Exercise 3: Create a DAO for Lending Protocol Governance
Chapter 7 The AMM Time Machine: Back to the Future of Finance
Preface
1. Introduction
Traditional Financial Markets
2. The Core of AMM Mechanics
2.1 Advantages of AMMs
2.2 Market Manipulation and Attacks
2.3 Liquidity Providers and Impermanent Loss
3. What Is Better: AMMs or Traditional Markets?
3.1 Limitations on Price Discovery
3.2. Adverse Selection and Liquidity Providers
3.3 Which Is Better Then?
4. Prominent Protocol: Uniswap
4.1 Uniswap V3: Concentrated Liquidity and Innovation
4.2 Uniswap V4
4.3 Additional Trading Strategies
5. Other Prominent AMMs
5.1 Prominent Protocol: Curve Finance
5.2 Prominent Protocol: Balancer Overview.
6. Concluding Remarks
End-of-Chapter Questions
Multiple-Choice Questions
Open Questions
Numerical Exercises
Exercise 1: Calculating Price Impact in an AMM
Exercise 2: Understanding Impermanent Loss
Coding Exercises
Appendix
Chapter 8 Liquidity Pools: Dive Deep into the Ocean of DeFi (Lifebuoys Not Included)
Preface
1. Introduction
1.1 The Bigger Picture Within DeFi
1.2 The Advent of Liquidity Provision
1.3 The Emergence of Yield Farming
2. How to Build a Liquid Market?
2.1 Differences and Complementarities in a Nutshell
3. The Curve Wars
3.1 More Details about the Underlying Economic Incentives
3.2 The Bribing System and Its Implications
4. Economic Implications and Game Theory
4.1 Tokenomics Implications
4.2 Renting vs. Owning Liquidity
4.3 Sustainability of Rewards
4.4 Impact on Token Distribution
5. Liquid Staking
Summary
6. Concluding Remarks
End-of-Chapter Questions
Multiple-Choice Questions
Open Questions
Coding Exercises
Exercise 1: Liquidity Mining Rewards Distribution Smart Contract
Exercise 2: Yield Farming Strategy Simulation
Exercise 3: Liquid Staking Contract with Reward Optimization
Chapter 9 The Tokenization Transformation from Wall Street to Your Street
Preface
1. Introduction
2. How does it work?
2.1 Key Benefits
2.2 What is the achievable market?
2.3 The MakerDAO Transition toward RWA
2.4 Art Tokenization Example
3. Completing the Security Market Line
3.1 Isn't this just a fancy way of reinventing ETFs?
3.2 Private Markets
4. On-Chain vs. Off-Chain Tokenization
4.1 Mortgages
4.2 Saving the Environment
4.3 Tokenizing IP
4.4 Synthetic Assets
5. Satoshi's Vision?
6. The Path Forward
End-of-Chapter Questions
Multiple-Choice Questions
Open Questions
Coding Exercises.
Exercise 1: Creating a Basic ERC-20 Token.

Blockchain, Crypto and Defi Bridging Finance and Technology

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