Fundamentals on Digital Assets

This training aims to provide participants with a comprehensive and in-depth understanding of digital assets, covering both technical and regulatory aspects, while offering practical and concrete perspectives on their use and risks.

Introduction

• Presentation of the context and objectives of the training
• Round table of participants and their expectations

Evolution of the Web

• Presentation of the evolution of the way the Web works
• Current challenges and prospects

Blockchain Technology

• Technical functioning of the Blockchain
• Underlying technologies: consensus algorithms, Halving
• Issues and challenges

Cryptocurrencies

• Definitions: coins and tokens
• Types of cryptocurrencies and applications
• Tokenisation: definition
• The repositioning of central banks
• Decentralised finance: definition and challenges

Ethereum

• History, definitions
• Smart Contracts: definition and practical cases
• Crypto wallets: how they work, use cases
• Non-fungible tokens (NFTs): definition, operation, use cases
• Decentralised Autonomous Organisations (DAOs): definition, operation, use cases

Risks of crypto-assets

• Crypto-asset risks
• Best practices for dealing with these risks
• Case studies

Regulation of crypto-assets

• International and regional regulatory overview
• Issues and challenges for regulation
• Prospects for the evolution of the regulatory framework

Q&A and conclusion

• Seminar report
• Answers to participants' questions
• Satisfaction assessment
• Referral to additional resources

No exam is available for this course.