Online Course – Duke University’s Certified Professional Internship in Decentralized Finance (DeFi)

Learn about decentralized finance. Understand the infrastructure of decentralized finance and evaluate opportunities in the field, as well as filter out ideas that may fail.

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קורס אונליין - התמחות מקצועית מוסמכת במימון מבוזר (DeFi) של Duke University

Professional Certificate

Intermediate level

No prior knowledge required

Time to complete the course

7-day free trial

No unnecessary risks

Skills you will acquire in the course

  • In-depth understanding of concentrated and differential finance
  • Identifying problems in traditional finance
  • Knowledge of DP technologies and their applications
  • Analysis of loan and swap mechanics
  • Overview of leading DP protocols
  • Assessing risks related to smart contracts and regulation
  • Developing a vision for future finances

What you will learn in the course

Courses for which the course is suitable

  • Financial Analyst
  • Finance Product Manager
  • Finance software developer
  • Financial advisor
  • Risk Manager
  • Blockchain expert
  • Investment Manager
  • Financial planner
  • Finance Project Manager
  • Researcher in the field of digital finance

Internship – a four-part course series

Decentralized Finance and the Future of Finance is a four-course learning experience. Decentralized Finance, or Decentralized Finance, is a new technology in which users interact with each other as peers through algorithms or smart contracts, rather than through traditional intermediaries such as banks, brokers, or insurance companies. This technology has the potential to transform the world of finance as we know it.

The courses address major issues in traditional finance:

  • Lack of inclusion
  • Inefficiency
  • Lack of transparency
  • Centralized control
  • Lack of interoperability

Courses:

  • Course One: DP Infrastructure – Focuses on the historical development of centralized finance and the problems that DP solves.
  • Course Two: DP Principles – deals with mechanics, supply and ownership, loans and exchanges.
  • Course Three: Deep Review of DP – Explores the leading protocols including MakerDAO, Compound, Aave, Uniswap, and dYdX.
  • Course Four: Risks and Opportunities in DP – Analyzes the key risks including smart contract risk, government risk, growth issues and regulatory business. The final section paints a vision for finance in the future including the winners and losers.

Details of the courses that make up the specialization

Decentralized Financial Infrastructure (DeFi)

Course 1

Duration: 6 hours

Rating: 4.8 (1,368 ratings)

What will you learn?

  • History and origins of decentralized finance
  • The key components of a decentralized financial infrastructure
  • Decentralized financial problems and how to solve them
  • Common myths about decentralized finance

Skills you will acquire

  • Smart contract
  • Cryptography
  • government
  • Distributed protocols
  • Blockchain mechanisms

Decentralized Financial Primitives (DeFi)

Course 2

Duration: 6 hours

Rating: 4.9 (411 ratings)

What will you learn?

  • Token and NFT design
  • Supply matching mechanics
  • Decentralized exchange

Skills you will acquire

  • Address mechanics
  • Connecting lines
  • Consensus mechanisms
  • Quick loans
  • Digital signature

Deepening into decentralized finance (DeFi)

Course 3

Duration: 7 hours

Rating: 4.9 (266 ratings)

What will you learn?

  • Credit and Loan Protocol Mechanics
  • Implementations of decentralized exchanges
  • Derivatives and tokenization protocols

Skills you will acquire

  • Automatic market makers fixed function
  • Proficiency with MakerDAO
  • Realization of dYdX derivatives
  • Set Protocol tokenization method
  • Compound and Aave mechanics

Opportunities and risks in decentralized finance (DeFi)

Course 4

Duration: 5 hours

Rating: 4.9 (282 ratings)

What will you learn?

  • DeFi Risk Assessment Framework
  • Environmental impacts of cryptocurrencies
  • Winning and Losing Figures in the Financial Future

Skills you will acquire

  • Mechanics and risks of decentralized exchanges
  • Ethereum 2.0 Approaches to Growth
  • Regulatory risk assessment
  • Understanding the risk of smart contracts
  • Different approaches to storage

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