Digital Asset Foundations
Concepts, custody, and the advisor's lens
Build the mental model. Understand blockchains, tokens, custody, and the regulatory backdrop your clients ask about.
Course 1 establishes the mechanical vocabulary the rest of the designation depends on: what the ledger is, what a wallet actually holds, how settlement finality differs from the T+1 world, and where the asset class sits relative to a traditional book.
What you'll be able to do
- Explain blockchains, keys, and settlement finality to a client without jargon
- Distinguish the asset, the ledger, the wallet, and the custodian
- Describe how stablecoins and DeFi yield are constructed and where each can fail
- Answer the reversal, custody, and 'is it real' questions accurately
Format. Four interactive simulators covering blockchain mechanics, DeFi lending and swaps, and stablecoin peg dynamics. No prior technical background is assumed.
Simulators in this course
- Tier 1
Blockchain Simulations
Interactive blockchain mechanics: blocks, hashes, consensus, and mining on an external sandbox.
- Tier 1
DeFi Simulator
Walk through lending, swaps, and yield mechanics in a guided DeFi sandbox.
- Tier 1
Stablecoin Simulator
Explore reserves, peg dynamics, and stablecoin issuance/redemption flows.