This is a document I update regularly with new information on why there can be no doubt whatsoever that blockchain and tokenization are the future of our financial system.
Open the living documentSites to learn more about blockchain / crypto / DeFi / digital assets
- Coinbase — How to get started in DeFi
- Binance Academy
- The Block — Learn
- XRPL — Deep dive into XRPL DeFi
- DACFP Crypto Catalog — a very useful catalog of the digital assets marketplace, including investments and service providers
- DACFP — leading provider of crypto education for financial professionals and investors
- 101 Blockchains — training courses and certifications in blockchain and crypto
- Blockchain Council — training courses and certifications in blockchain and crypto
- What is DeFi — BIS seminar
- CoinGecko — Learn
- CoinGecko — Liquidity pools in DeFi
- OnlyX — CEX vs DEX vs Crypto Swap
- FT Partners
- FT Partners — Research deck
- a16z — State of Crypto
- OpenEden — How T-Bill works
- Magic Eden
- Coinbase NFT
- OpenSea
- Binance — ISO 20022 overview
- Coinbase Rewards
- Fireblocks — Resources
- Fireblocks Academy
- Securitize — About tokenization
Tools for DeFi: token info & charts
- Chainalysis — great free analysis data
- CoinGecko — one of the top sites for researching projects
- CoinMarketCap — one of the top sites for researching projects
- TradingView — professional stock/crypto/futures/forex charting, free & paid
- Dexscreener — great crypto stats and info
- Messari — great crypto stats and research
- Wormhole — tracks money moving between chains (e.g. Ethereum to Solana)
- Stakingy — the best staking rates in DeFi
- IntoTheBlock — DeFi — pro-level DeFi market stats and analysis, free & paid
- Step.finance — the front page of Solana — portfolio, DeFi positions, NFTs and Solana analytics
DeFi yields
- DefiLlama
- Revert
- Aave — the world's largest liquidity protocol — supply, borrow, swap, stake and more
- APY Vision
- DeFi-Lab — Uniswap v3 simulator
- Uniswap.Fish
- Stable.fish — stablecoin-specific yields and PEG information
- DeFi Pulse Index — a cap-weighted index tracking some of the largest DeFi protocols
Wallet trackers & tools
- Coinstats — track multiple wallet addresses from one place
- Zapper
- DeBank
- Revoke.cash
- SonarWatch
Which coins & why
Start with the Coinbase protocol guides. Top-tier projects to consider (not financial advice):
Other resources — CBDCs, gold, digital identity
- Kinesis — digital gold (KAU) and digital silver (KAG)
- Pax Gold — digital gold (PAXG)
- ISO 20022 — a single standardisation approach used by all financial standards initiatives
- Economic War Room — with Kevin Freeman — weekly broadcast financial news show
- Corey's Digs — investigative journalism by Corey Lynn
- Atlantic Council — CBDC Tracker — state of central bank digital currencies worldwide
- Transactional Gold — making gold a legal currency in the USA
- Pirate Money — Kevin Freeman book on gold as money
- CoinCodex — ISO 20022 & crypto
- Delinea — PAM for financial institutions — Digital ID
- Auth0 — Verifiable credentials — Digital ID
- Microsoft — 11 ways verifiable credentials transform business
- UN — Digital Certificate of Entitlement — Digital ID use case
- World Identity Network — giving orphans identity to help prevent human trafficking
DeFi opportunity presentation
Free 30-minute presentation on the DeFi opportunity (the 'DeFi CashFlow' system) — generating passive income.
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