Download or read book Bringing Blockchain to Corporate Finance A Smart Contract for Corporate Bonds written by Christian Schäfer and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2020-04-23 with total page 69 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally intended to be an innovative electronic payment system, the new technology Bitcoin could have a disruptive impact on other industries as well. Blockchain enthusiasts, private companies, government and academic institutions are currently trying to stake out and unlock the full spectrum of the technology's potential. Capital market transactions are among these use cases as many players are involved in these transactions, resulting in high costs and long transaction times. By integrating blockchain technology into the settlement of security transactions, the cost and complexity of the processes might be reduced. As Christian Schäfer explains, the crucial instrument for the realization of these potentials are smart contracts, enabled by the Ethereum Blockchain. In his books, Schäfer examines the technical feasibility of a smart contract that enables the issuing and trading of corporate bonds without intermediaries. The key features for the smart contract have been derived from the payment mechanisms of a bond and the standard for token contracts established within the Ethereum developer community. The requirements for the smart contract could be implemented successfully, as confirmed by the documentation of two simulations. In this book: - Internet of Things; - solidity; - token; - ERC20 standard; - corporate bonds

Download or read book Blockchain Based Bonds written by Maximilian Markus Großmann and published by Springer Gabler. This book was released on 2024-12-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study delves into the impact of blockchain-based bonds on corporate financing and the bond market, with a specific focus on Germany. Utilizing qualitative insights from 19 experts, it compares blockchain-based bonds with traditional bonds, explores market-adoption dynamics, assesses the evolving roles of market intermediaries, and considers future development prospects. The findings suggest that blockchain-based bonds could offer longterm benefits in terms of accessibility, overall risk, cost efficiency, and transparency. However, they currently face significant challenges, including technological fragmentation, high liquidity risks, large investment requirements, and regulatory complexities. Market adoption is still in its nascent stages, with development initiatives like the DLT Pilot Regime not yet making a substantial impact. The study also highlights a potential shift in the roles of market intermediaries in the blockchain era, indicating new functions and possible obsolescence for some traditional roles. Experts offer varied predictions for the future of blockchain-based bonds, from the possibility of replacing traditional bonds to serving as complementary solutions or being superseded by other digital approaches.

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Download or read book Blockchain Applications for Smart Contract Technologies written by Derbali, Abdelkader Mohamed Sghaier and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2024-04-09 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Blockchain technology has garnered much attention in recent years from both academic and business spheres. At its core, this technology enables the implementation of smart contracts, automated software applications that execute agreements on a secure and distributed blockchain ledger. This ledger, known for its transparency, facilitates trustless transactions, eliminating the need for centralized authority. Smart contracts, stored on the blockchain, automate processes such as goods sales, contract execution, and currency exchange, making them accessible to all users. Blockchain Applications for Smart Contract Technologies aims to present an exhaustive compilation of academic and industrial endeavors that advocate for the integration of blockchain and smart contracts in various sectors. Beyond offering a comprehensive understanding of blockchain and smart-contract fundamentals, the book seeks to spotlight specific research themes within these domains. With dedicated sections focused on applications in healthcare, finance, e-government, the Internet of Things (IoT), energy, identity, telecommunications, Metaverse, non-fungible tokens (NFTs), and notary services, the book becomes a valuable guiding resource for scholars and professionals alike. This book caters to scholars, researchers, and industry professionals that want to apply blockchain and smart-contract technologies in their fields.

Download or read book Blockchain Development for Finance Projects written by Ishan Roy and published by Packt Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2020-01-31 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A practical blockchain handbook designed to take you through implementing and re-engineering banking and financial solutions and workflows using eight step-by-step projects Key FeaturesImplement various end-to-end blockchain projects and learn to enhance present-day financial solutionsUse Ethereum, Hyperledger, and Stellar to build public and private decentralized applicationsAddress complex challenges faced in the BFSI domain using different blockchain platform servicesBook Description Blockchain technology will continue to play an integral role in the banking and finance sector in the coming years. It will enable enterprises to build transparent and secure business processes. Experts estimate annual savings of up to 20 billion dollars from this technology. This book will help you build financial apps using blockchain, guiding you through enhancing popular products and services in the banking and finance sector. The book starts by explaining the essential concepts of blockchain, and the impact of blockchain technology on the BFSI sector. Next, you'll delve into re-designing existing banking processes and building new financial apps using blockchain. To accomplish this, you'll work through eight blockchain projects. By demonstrating the entire process, the book helps you understand everything from setting up the environment and building frontend portals to system integration and testing apps. You will gain hands-on experience with the Ethereum, Hyperledger Fabric, and Stellar to develop private and public decentralized apps. Finally, you'll learn how to use ancillary platforms and frameworks such as IPFS, Truffle OpenZeppelin, and MetaMask. By the end of this blockchain book, you'll have an in-depth understanding of how to leverage distributed ledgers and smart contracts for financial use cases. What you will learnDesign and implement blockchain solutions in a BFSI organizationExplore common architectures and implementation models for enterprise blockchainDesign blockchain wallets for multi-purpose applications using EthereumBuild secure and fast decentralized trading ecosystems with BlockchainImplement smart contracts to build secure process workflows in Ethereum and Hyperledger FabricUse the Stellar platform to build KYC and AML-compliant remittance workflowsMap complex business workflows and automate backend processes in a blockchain architectureWho this book is for This book is for blockchain and Dapps developers, or anyone looking for a guide to building innovative and highly secure solutions in the fintech domain using real-world use cases. Developers working in financial enterprises and banks, and solution architects looking to build brand new process flows using blockchain technology will also find the book useful. Experience with Solidity programming and prior knowledge of finance and trade are required to get the most out of this book.

Download or read book Blockchain for Business written by S. S. Tyagi and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2021-01-15 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book focuses on the power of business blockchain. It gives an overview of blockchain in traditional business, marketing, accounting and business intelligence. The book provides a detailed working knowedge of blockchain, user cases of blockchain in business, cryptocurrency and Initial Coin Offering(ICO) along with the risks associated with them. The book also covers the detailed study of decentralization, mining, consensus, smart contracts, concepts and working of distributed ledgers and hyper ledgers as well as many other important concepts. It also details the security and privacy aspects of blockchain. The book is beneficial for readers who are preparing for their business careers, those who are working with small scale businesses and startups, and helpful for business executives, managers, entrepreneurs, bankers, government officials and legal professionals who are looking to blockchain for secure financial transactions. The book will also be beneficial for researchers and students who want to study the latest developments of blockchain.

Download or read book Blockchain based financing with Initial Coin Offerings ICOs written by Dmitri Boreiko and published by Universitas Studiorum. This book was released on 2019-04-30 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The great and fastening strides of the Fintech revolution continuously transform once-static traditional financial industry and provision of credit in particular. Blockchain innovation has led to creation of new industry of raising funds without the need for financial intermediaries such as venture capital or banks. In this book we build up a holistic picture of the token sales or initial coin offerings (ICOs) from their inception in 2013 to our days. We analyze the initial phases of the industry’s development, collecting information on all campaigns or ICO attempts in this period, providing a thorough quantitative analysis of the phenomenon. We also provide a detailed account of token sales mechanics and overview all the main actors in this new ecosystem of blockchain-based financing. By leveraging the open data on token sales contributions, we study the behavior of token sales investors and find out that recurrent investors do not succeed in selecting better ICO projects but bigger investors do. In the last part of the book, we study crypto tokens as investments and overview their functionality and risks involved, as well as look at the alternative methods of creating and distributing tokens and compare them to token sales.

Download or read book Blockchain Technology and Innovations in Business Processes written by Srikanta Patnaik and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-03-24 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edited book provides a platform to bring together researchers, academia and industry collaborators to exchange their knowledge and work to develop better understanding about the scope of blockchain technology in business management applications of different sectors such as retail sector, supply chain and logistics, healthcare sector, manufacturing sector, judiciary, finance and government sector in terms of data quality and timeliness. The book presents original unpublished research papers on blockchain technology and business management on novel architectures, prototypes and case studies.

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Download or read book The Executive Guide to Blockchain written by Maria Grazia Vigliotti and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-02-25 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Keeping up with fast evolving technology is a challenge that every business leader faces. As organisations start to wake up to the Fourth Industrial Revolution, it’s becoming more important than ever to be able to utilise and exploit new digital platforms. With the simple aim of demystifying blockchain for business leaders, The Executive Guide to Blockchain offers a jargon-free explanation and framework to better understand blockchain technologies and their impact on organizations. Enabling any business leader with or without specific computing knowledge to reap the benefits of blockchain whilst understanding the limitations, this book will empower you to: Identify opportunities for blockchain in your own business sectors Understand smart contracts and their relationship with the law Create a blockchain strategy and business case Implement blockchain technologies and maximise their potential. Written by experts in non-technical language, this practical resource can be applied to any industry, and arm you with the knowledge needed to capture the possibilities of digital business.

Download or read book Blockchain And Smart Contracts Design Thinking And Programming For Fintech written by Swee Won Lo and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2021-01-08 with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Innovative as it is, the blockchain technology is getting more and more attention and an increasing number of applications have emerged. This book elaborates on both the design thinking ideas and technical details in blockchain and smart contracts to help readers delve into the conceptual framework and understand why blockchain is designed as such and how it makes the current system decentralised yet effective. Having this understanding lays the ground for further analysis of blockchain-based solutions and innovative fintech applications.Topics covered in this book include blockchain structure, blockchain ecosystem, design thinking for blockchain, smart contract, fintech and financial services, solution-based problem solving, fintech valuation, and current issues faced such as privacy protection and solution selection, with the aid of real-life examples and hands-on exercises.Blockchain and Smart Contracts serves as a valuable guide for researchers and practitioners who have interests in the blockchain, smart contract, fintech innovation and applications, design thinking, and technical details. This book is particularly written for anyone who has no technical background and is searching for an initiation into the deep end of blockchain. Those with business, finance and economic interests will find this interesting and easy to digest.

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Download or read book Smart Contracts written by Oscar Flynt and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-08-23 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover how to easily create and profit from Smart Contracts In the future, items at the grocery store will be tagged so that a charge is automatically deducted from your checking account. Walking out of the store, your watch will register your blood alcohol level being WAY over the limit...then call you a cab if you can't drive. This isn't science fiction, it is the future brought to you by smart contracts. And if you want to be at the forefront of the future instead of stuck on the sidelines, then Smart Contracts: How to Use Blockchain Smart Contracts for Cryptocurrency Exchange is the book for you. A smart contract is just a type of computer code that is activated once a certain database known as a blockchain registers that a predetermined event has occurred. The smart contract is then given its own block and distributed as part of the chain. Inside you will learn just what that means, as well as how to create your own smart contract, a related application to interact with it more easily, and how to make the most out of one of the most exciting technologies of the early Twenty-First century. And when you download Smart Contracts now, you'll also discover: How Financial and business institutions will benefit from smart contracts Tips and ideas for creating the right smart contracts using Solidity Smart contract myths debunked The best rules and code for creating your very own Dapp The pros and cons of smart contracts The industry with the most potential for smart contracts A comprehensive look at how smart contracts work And much, much more... Smart contracts are one of the biggest opportunities in the world of Fintech right now. Those who jump on learning and utilizing them now will surely reap the rewards. Download Smart Contracts today and learn how to incorporate them into your life and business.

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Download or read book Blockchain and Ethereum Smart Contract Solution Development written by Weijia Zhang and published by Apress. This book was released on 2022-08-24 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Build decentralized applications with smart contract programming. Following the curriculum from an active blockchain course taught by the author at the McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas, this book fills the gaps for you from learning about basic cryptocurrency uses of blockchain to understanding smart contracts and dapps. You’ll first start by understanding the basics of blockchain technology. Take a business point of view to discover general concepts about blockchains and dapps or “decentralized apps” built off of smart contracts. Next, learn about the token economy, how to design tokens, and relevant client technologies, such as web3, metamask, and UI/UX design. Then, install a blockchain node yourself. With a basic understanding of blockchain applications and business uses, you’ll move further into hands-on development. There are ten modules for hands-on smart contract programming covered to build your own decentralized applications. Several team projects built end-to-end from concept to deployment to operation are also provided. Using these models and your own original work, you’ll build a smart contract development environment, practice Solidity programming, compile source code, perform security reviews, and deploy bytecode to blockchains. The breakthrough in blockchain technology has empowered novel ecosystems and applications in the areas of Decentralized Finance (DeFi), Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC), Non-Fungible Tokens (NFT), Decentralized Autonomous Organization (DAO), and more. Blockchain and Ethereum Smart Contract Solution Development will prepare you to create fantastic applications using Ethereum’s smart contracts and solid concepts of decentralized programming! What You'll Learn Become familiar with Blockchain technology, both in theory and in practice Understand architectural components of blockchain and the underlying computer science Implement blockchain smart contract solutions using both public and enterprise Ethereum blockchains Who This Book Is For IT professionals and mid-level managers interested in smart contract development. Blockchain Consultants who want to have a handbook of smart contract development methodologies. And enterprise technologiests helping companies through the transformation to blockchain technologies.

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Download or read book A Beginner s Journey to Ethereum s Smart Contracts written by Peter Wanjala and published by . This book was released on 2018-04-19 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The potentials of Ethereum smart contracts--powered by the ubiquitous Blockchain technology--has been the subject of raging debate in recent times. Pundits have long held the argument that smart contracts hold the promise of curing hurdles associated with financial contracts, banking transactions, e-commerce, logistics, supply chain and legal contracts. It is no secret that reliance on classical contracts--which uses physical documents--has led to delays in transactions, inefficiencies, and exposures to fraudulent activities. Employing smart contracts can help companies lower administration costs, reduce risks, and promote efficient business operations across multiple sectors of the economy. However, to appreciate these benefits and develop better smart contracts, developers have understood how to use the technologies to engineer Blockchain projects. This book provides a big picture view of engineering Ethereum smart contracts. It delves deeper to explore how Solidity and Web3.Js can be used to build enterprise-level smart contracts and DApps. The book has been structured into 10 chapters as follows:* Chapter 1: Overview of Blockchain and smart contracts. It explores the basic concepts about Blockchain, cryptography, smart contracts, and DApps to provide you with a solid understanding on what is required to start creating smart contracts.* Chapter 2: Smart Contracts with Web3.Js. It introduces you to Web3.Js and how you can use it to start building smart contracts. * Chapter 3: Smart Contracts Events with Web3.Js. You will learn all the basics of applying smart contract events in Web3.Js.* Chapter 4: Functions, mappings, and structs. It explores the Solidity's functions, mappings and structs and how to use them to enhance the development of smart contracts. * Chapter 5: Inheritance and Deployment. It examines how smart contracts can be inherited and deployed on the Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM).* Chapter 6: Embark Framework. It examines the Embark framework and how it can fast-track the development and deployment of smart contracts on EVM.* Chapter 7: Testing Smart Contracts. It explores how smart contracts can be tested in different environments.* Chapter 8: Contracts Management with Factories. It examines how factories can be used to manage multiple smart contracts.* Chapter 9: IPFS and Web Hosting. It introduces the Interplanetary File System protocol and how it can be leveraged to host smart contracts.* Chapter 10: End-to-end Development of DApps. It summarizes the various steps involved in the development of DApps. Ultimately, the focus of this book is an exploration of all aspects of smart contracts and DApps that you need to know for you to start creating Ethereum-based Blockchain projects. Let's get started.