Course Blockchain & Decentralized Finance | BLOCKCHAIN & CODING duration Online
Abstract
DeFi is a new approach to the use of financial instruments, which exploits recent IT techniques and technologies, with particular regard to blockchain technology to evolve traditional financial tools. This workshop therefore deals with blockchain as decentralized finance, with a focus that will be introductory, economic, technological, innovative and operational at the same time.
Scenario
The British call it Decentralized Finance (DeFi) and it is not a technology, but a new approach to the use of financial instruments, which uses recent techniques and information technology to evolve traditional financial tools.
Important note for candidates: DeFi does not give money away to anyone. If traditional financial instruments already require training and financial education, the use of DeFi requires a higher level of knowledge and skills. In fact, from a competence point of view, it implies the study of more complex tools also addressing them from a technological point of view.
Therefore, DeFi will certainly offer enormous opportunities to those who decide to seriously study a technology that is destined to revolutionize our daily life in the coming years.
IMPORTANT NOTE: This course will not recommend investments. The participants will decide in full autonomy and responsibility on how to apply the technical knowledge acquired.
Module I | Mining, Staking & Farming
- From Bitcoin to Ethereum: evolution of technologies
- Mining
- Hardware mining technologies (ASIC)
- Mining farms
- Industry and economics of mining
- Smart contracts and tokens
- Stable coins
- First investment opportunity: Staking
- Second investment opportunity: P2P lending
- What is the Defi: from cex to dex
- Digression 1: the oracles
- Third investment opportunity: liquidity pools and AMM
- Digression 2: vaults
- A look to the future Defi + AI, or automatic finance.
• Maker-Dao
• Uniswap
• DeversiFi
• Compound
• Bancor
• Avee
• Yearn Finance
• Chainlink
• Augur
• API 3.0
• renVM
• 0x
• DMM
• Ampleforth
• Synthetix
• Mars (pBTC35A), BTCST
• Nexus
• Where are my cryptocurrencies?
• How to secure your funds
• Custody services vs personal wallet
• Metamask and other connectors for Ethereum
• Are smart contracts safe?
• Securing a smart contract with a smart contract
None, and no programming skills are required. But it is recommended that you have attended Geeks Academy's “Blockchain Foundation” course.
At the end of this course, participants will acquire a solid general knowledge and operational technical skills on the underlying technologies and how to invest in DeFi today. You will finally understand how to get returns from cryptocurrencies.
Equipment
Personal notebook for practical exercises.
64-bit dual core CPU on x86-64
4gb RAM
Operating System: Linux / Mac Os X / Windows
IMPORTANT NOTE: This course will not recommend investments. The participants will decide in full autonomy and responsibility on how to apply the technical knowledge acquired.