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Blockchain is changing how financial assets, transactions, and services can be designed and delivered. In this Specialization, you'll build a practical understanding of blockchain technology and explore how it is being applied across the evolving financial ecosystem. You'll begin with Web3 and blockchain fundamentals, including digital assets, tokens, Bitcoin transactions, and smart contracts. You'll then explore how blockchain is reshaping financial services through decentralized finance (DeFi), tokenization, digital identity, and new approaches to financial infrastructure. Finally, you'll examine applications across stablecoins, insurance, international clearing and settlement, and financial markets. By the end of this Specialization, you'll be able to: Explain how blockchain, digital assets, tokens, and smart contracts work. Analyze how DeFi and blockchain are changing traditional financial services. Evaluate tokenization and blockchain-based approaches to digital identity. Assess regulatory and implementation considerations for blockchain in finance. Examine blockchain applications in stablecoins, insurance, clearing and settlement, and financial market. This Specialization is designed for finance, fintech, business, and technology professionals who want to understand where blockchain creates opportunities in financial services and how to evaluate emerging applications.

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Course 1: Blockchain Fundamentals for Fintech
Course 2: The Rise of Decentralized Finance (DeFi)
Course 3: Blockchain Applications in Fintech

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Explore how blockchain technology is being applied across financial services and other industries through real-world use cases. In this course, you'll examine blockchain applications that demonstrate how digital assets and decentralized technologies can support new approaches to transactions, financial products, and business processes. You'll explore stablecoins and executive tokens, examine blockchain applications in insurance, and learn how the technology can support international clearing and settlement. You'll also investigate blockchain's role in financial markets, including tokenized securities and related financial instruments.
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Explore how blockchain technology is transforming financial services and creating new approaches to digital finance. In this course, you’ll examine how blockchain can address long-standing challenges in financial systems while enabling developments such as decentralized finance (DeFi), tokenization, and digital identity. You’ll explore the evolution of financial services and the move toward digitization, including the relationship between physical and digital assets. You’ll also examine blockchain-based identity systems, regulatory considerations, and the principles that shape blockchain solutions in financial services.
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Explore the foundations of Web3 and blockchain technology and understand how they are shaping the next generation of digital systems. In this course, you’ll begin with the evolution of the web and the emerging Web3 ecosystem before examining how blockchain works and why it matters. You’ll learn about digital assets and tokens, Bitcoin transactions, smart contracts, and core blockchain design principles. You’ll also explore the practical challenges organizations face when implementing blockchain solutions, helping you evaluate both the potential and limitations of the technology. This course is non-technical (i.e. no coding required) and is intended for a broad audience.