Course 4:
Digital assets. A survey of the user and legal space
This set of modules carries out a very broad and high-level survey of the digital asset space. The contect from this course is largely sourced from internal presentations made at Tari Labs in 2019.
Audience: Developers
Time to complete: 3 hours
What you'll learn
- What did the digital asset space look like circa 2018?
- When are digital assets securities under U.S. law?
- What are confidential assets?
Modules
Module 1:
Digital Assets
All digital assets provide value, but not all digital assets are valued equally
Module 2:
Application of Howey to Blockchain Network Token Sales
Many blockchain networks use, or intend to use, cryptographic tokens ("tokens" or "digital assets") for various purposes.
Module 3:
Non-Fungible Tokens Survey
Fungibility is, essentially, a characteristic of an asset, or token, that determines whether items or quantities of the same or similar type can be completely interchangeable during exchange or utility
Module 4:
Confidential Assets
Confidential assets, in the context of blockchain technology and blockchain-based cryptocurrencies, can have different meanings to different audiences, and can also be something totally different or unique depending on the use case.
Module 5:
An introduction to Lelantus
Lelantus is one of the more important approaches to adding privacy to digital assets. In this video, Grant Hawkins covers the inner workings of Lelantus and discusses its approach with Monero's RingCT.