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.
