FairWins Finance Professional Series¶
Intermediate and advanced briefings for readers with a financial-services background — asset management, treasury, operations, compliance, risk, advisory, and fintech product — who are fluent in traditional finance but not in code.
Each briefing bridges: it starts from a concept you already know (custody, settlement, counterparty risk, NAV, KYC/AML, best execution, cost disclosure), maps it onto the on-chain mechanism, and gives an honest read on where the two genuinely differ, with a real Risk & controls section. No Solidity, no implementation detail — the register is finance, not engineering.
Informational, not advice. These are educational pieces — not investment, legal, tax, or regulatory advice. Analogies to regulated products build intuition; they are not claims of legal equivalence. Regulatory treatment varies by jurisdiction and is evolving; yield carries risk and is never guaranteed.
The full topic list, levels, and suggested "Finance Desk" cadence are in the Finance Professional Series inventory. For the plain-language versions of these ideas, see the Knowledge Base; for how the systems are built, the Engineering Blog.
Index¶
Custody & Settlement¶
- Self-custody vs. qualified custodians · Intermediate
- Trustless escrow and the end of counterparty risk · Intermediate
- Atomic settlement: delivery-versus-payment at T+0 · Advanced
- Institutional controls on-chain: multisig & segregation of duties · Intermediate
- Programmable spending policy as pre-trade controls · Advanced
Money, Yield & Markets¶
- Stablecoins as a settlement asset · Intermediate
- On-chain lending vs. money markets & repo · Advanced
- Tokenized vaults as fund structures · Advanced
- A practitioner's risk framework for DeFi yield · Advanced
- Oracles as reference-data and benchmark infrastructure · Advanced
- Prediction markets as information markets & event contracts · Intermediate
- Builder codes and best execution · Advanced
Compliance, Disclosure & Governance¶
- Programmatic compliance: screening, KYC/AML & the travel rule · Advanced
- Fee transparency and cost disclosure · Intermediate
- Confidentiality on a public ledger · Advanced
- Operational risk in upgradeable systems · Advanced
- Assurance for smart contracts: audits & formal verification · Intermediate
- DAOs and member-owned governance · Intermediate
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