| List of Figures and Tables | xi |
| About the Editors | xiii |
| About the Contributors | xv |
| Acknowledgments | xxiii |
| Part I: The Cryptoasset Landscape |
| Chapter 1: Cryptoassets: An Overview | |
| H. Kent Baker, Hugo Benedetti, Ehsan Nikbakht and Sean Stein Smith | 3 |
| Chapter 2: The Cryptoasset Auditing and Accounting Landscape | |
| Sean Stein Smith | 13 |
| Chapter 3: The Crypto Investing Landscape | |
| John Ward | 25 |
| Part II: Types of Cryptoassets |
| Chapter 4: Cryptocurrencies | |
| Lennart Ante | 45 |
| Chapter 5: Security Tokens | |
| Paul P. Momtaz | 61 |
| Chapter 6: Utility Tokens | |
| Hugo Benedetti, Christian Caceres and Luis Álvaro Abarzúa | 79 |
| Chapter 7: Stablecoins | |
| Ingo Fiedler and Lennart Ante | 93 |
| Chapter 8: Tokenized Assets and Securities | |
| Hugo Benedetti and Gabriel Rodríguez-garnica | 107 |
| Part III: Cryptoassets as Investment Opportunities |
| Chapter 9: A Comparative Review of Cryptoasset Products | |
| Kristin M. Kalish, Kerem Proulx and Andrew C. Spieler | 125 |
| Chapter 10: Decentralized Finance | |
| Kiran Pandian, Daniel Pfeiffer and Samson Qian | 141 |
| Chapter 11: Blockchain and Crypto Exchange-traded Funds | |
| Philip C. Sookram | 157 |
| Chapter 12: Approaches to Cryptocurrency Valuation | |
| Arman Eshraghi | 171 |
| Chapter 13: Cryptoassets in a Portfolio Context | |
| Robinpreet Dhillon and Ehsan Nikbakht | 185 |
| Chapter 14: Protection of Portfolios and Financial Consumers from Cryptoasset Frauds | |
| Ibrahim E. Sancak | 199 |
| Part IV: Trading, Reporting, and Technical Aspects |
| Chapter 15: General Institutional Considerations of Blockchain and Emerging Applications | |
| Peter C. Earle and David M. Waugh | 219 |
| Chapter 16: Custody, Provenance, and Reporting of Blockchain and Cryptoassets | |
| Rocher Cyrus | 233 |
| Chapter 17: Tokenized and Non-tokenized Assets: Legal Considerations | |
| Brett Cotler | 249 |
| Chapter 18: The Underlying Technology for Cryptoassets | |
| Alevtina Dubovitskaya Ackerer and Damien Ackerer | 265 |
| Chapter 19: Central Bank Digital Currencies: Opening Pandora’s Box or Paving the Future of Money? | |
| Dimitrios Salampasis, Patrick Schueffel, Russell Dominic and Duncan Cameron | 283 |
| Part V: Other Cryptoasset Issues |
| Chapter 20: Trade Settlements | |
| Hugo Benedetti, Ehsan Nikbakht and Giga Zukhubaia | 309 |
| Chapter 21: A Closer Look into Decentralized Finance | |
| Hugo Benedetti and Sebastián Labbé | 327 |
| Chapter 22: Cryptocurrency Exchanges and the Future of Cryptoassets | |
| Antonio Brasse and Samuel Hyun | 341 |
| Discussion Questions and Answers: Chapters 2–22 | 355 |
| Index | 383 |