Digital Assets

Digital or crypto assets, existing solely in electronic form, serve as the foundational elements for decentralization across various sectors, notably finance. Decentralization involves a peer-to-peer network validating transactions via digital protocols. The challenges are difficulty in achieving decentralization, security, and scalability.

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From the perspective of an investor, digital assets are an alternative class of assets. They have several features that differentiate them from traditional investments. This makes them well-suited for a diversified portfolio. The question is how to accommodate them in such a portfolio, how to manage their potential and risk, and how to evaluate them. This short book explains how to include digital assets is a diversified portfolio. It focuses on their differentiating use cases, their idiosyncracies, and how they relate to other types of investment. This is a volume for practitioners and students in finance, asset management, or portfolio construction.