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课程名称：去中心化金融（DeFi）基础设施 课程概述： 《去中心化金融：金融的未来》是一套由杜克大学Fuqua商学院金融学教授Campbell R. Harvey教授授课的四门课程，旨在深入探讨去中心化金融（DeFi）。在第一门课程中，我们将追溯DeFi的起源，从最早的以物易物经济开始，回顾历史上的钱的价值及其未被官方支持的情况。 我们将重点关注DeFi的关键基础设施组件，包括区块链、加密货币、智能合约、预言机、稳定币及去中心化应用（dApps）。此外，还将讨论以太坊和比特币区块链的工作原理及其密码学哈希技术。 接下来，我们将重点分析DeFi旨在解决的具体问题：现有金融系统的低效（交易成本高、速度慢、不安全）、有限的访问（17亿人没有银行账户）、不透明性（需信任监管者来监控银行，但监管记录参差不齐）、集中控制（金融系统由少数寡头主导，导致费用过高）以及缺乏互通性（在不同金融机构之间转移资金存在困难）。课程的最后，我们将探讨围绕加密空间的许多误区。 课程大纲： 1. 去中心化金融的历史 - 提供交易历史的视角，从早期以物易物到金本位货币，再到法定货币和电子转账，介绍现有系统中出现的一些关键问题，并介绍萨托希·中本聪在2008年提出的加密货币白皮书。 2. DeFi基础 - 介绍DeFi的关键基础，包括区块链的运作机制及其密码学哈希，智能合约的创新，以及首次出现的加密货币与稳定币之间的区别。 3. DeFi解决的问题 - 探讨当今传统金融体系中的主要问题，包括低效（交易成本高、速度慢、不安全）、有限的银行接入、金融透明度不足、集中控制以及互操作性不足等。 4. DeFi的神话与事实 - 探索各种神话，包括：所有加密货币都是匿名的；区块链经常被黑客攻击；量子计算会摧毁所有基于区块链的货币；加密生态系统规模小，不太可能与传统金融机构竞争。 该课程通过多维度的分析，使学习者对DeFi有一个全面的了解，并帮助他们掌握未来金融领域的发展趋势。
Name:The History of Decentralized Finance
Description:This module provides a historical perspective of exchange beginning with early barter, specie currency (backed by, e.g., gold), fiat currency and electronic transfers. The module introduces some of the key problems that have arisen with the current system. It closes with the introduction to Satoshi Nakamoto’s famous 2008 paper which introduced cryptocurrency.
Name:DeFi Foundations
Description:This module introduces the key foundations for DeFi, starting with the mechanics of blockchain including cryptographic hashing. The module then explores the innovation of smart contracting - a key ingredient for DeFi. There is also a discussion of the differences between the first cryptos and stablecoins.
Name:Problems DeFi Solves
Description:This module explores the key problems with today’s legacy financial system which include: inefficiency (costly, slow, and insecure transactions); limited access (many cannot access banks and many that have bank accounts find it difficult to get loans); opacity (it is unclear how healthy our commercial financial institutions are); centralized control (current system is dominated by oligopolies that push prices higher than competitive prices) and interoperability (difficulty in moving funds across different legacy financial institutions).
Name:DeFi Myths and Facts
Description:The final module explores various different myths including: all cryptocurrencies are anonymous; blockchains are routinely hacked; quantum computing will destroy all blockchain based currencies; and the crypto ecosystem is so small that it is unlikely to compete with legacy financial institutions.
Decentralized Finance: The Future of Finance is a set of four courses taught by Campbell R. Harvey (Professor of Finance at the Fuqua School of Business, Duke University, and a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research) that focus on decentralized finance (DeFi). In this first course, we begin by exploring the origins of DeFi and take a broad historical view from the earliest barter economies, such as the first peer-to-peer exchanges of bartering, to present day. The course also looks at historical examples of money having value even though it is not officially backed. We then focus on the key infrastructure components: blockchain, cryptocurrency, smart contracts, oracles, stablecoins and decentralized applications (or dApps). This includes discussion of the mechanics of the Ethereum and Bitcoin blockchains including cryptographic hashing. Next, we focus on the specific problems that DeFi is designed to solve: inefficiency (costly, slow, and insecure today), limited access (1.7 billion are unbanked), opacity (we need to trust regulators to monitor banks and the regulators have mixed records), centralized control (financial system is oligopolistic imposing higher fees than we would have in a competitive market) and lack of interoperability (it is difficult to move funds from one financial institution to another today). The course closes by exploring many of the myths about the crypto space.
