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020 _a9781785788307
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043 _aen_UK
245 0 _aBeyond bitcoin
_bdecentralised finance and the end of banks
260 _bIcon Books,
_c2022
300 _axiv, 242 pages ; 20 cm
500 _adecentralised finance and the end of banks
505 _aIntro 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.
520 _a'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.
590 _bIncludes index.
650 _aBitcoin
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650 _aBanks and banking Forecasting
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650 0 _aFinance
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700 _aBoykey Sidley, Steven
_eAutor
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700 _aDingle, Simon
_eAutor
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