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This course provides a foundational understanding of blockchain technology, beginning with essential cryptographic concepts, including hashing, Merkle trees, and digital signatures.
Participants will explore how these principles support the fundamentals of blockchain, including block construction, transactions, network structure, addresses, wallets, and consensus mechanisms. The course also introduces the concept of digital tokens, covering token standards such as ERC-20 fungible tokens, and provides an overview of tokenised assets. There will be a particular focus on stablecoins and digital money.
By the end of the course, learners will have a well-rounded theoretical and practical understanding of how blockchain systems function and how to evaluate the many innovations in digital money and on-chain finance that may transform financial and payments systems in the coming years.
By the end of this course, learners will be able to:
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Cryptography basics
Introduction to blockchain
Tokens and digital money
Deputy Director, Qatar Centre for Global Banking and Finance
With over 15 years of experience as an economist, researcher, and lecturer, I have a deep understanding of the complex interactions between banking, a...
With over 15 years of experience as an economist, researcher, and lecturer, I have a deep understanding of the complex interactions between banking, asset pricing, monetary policy, and financial regulation - in traditional systems and in the rapidly emerging digital asset/crypto space.
As the Deputy Director of the Qatar Centre for Global Banking and Finance (QCGBF) at King's College London, I lead and support various research projects, publications, events, and collaborations. My work explores classic topics in macroeconomics and finance, but also addresses novel topics such as stablecoins, central bank digital currencies, stress testing, and climate change. I also teach and mentor students, drawing on my experience as an Economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco and from lecturing at the Universities of Cambridge, Oxford, and Warwick.
I have consulted for the Bank of England on stress testing and asset pricing models, and am currently a research affiliate on the digital euro and payments at the Central Bank of Ireland. I have published multiple papers in leading academic journals (including the American Economic Review, Journal of Economic Theory, and the Journal of Monetary Economics). I am also a consultant on banking and capital markets for Chainlink Labs.
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