Blockchain, Crypto and DeFi

Acknowledgments

I would like to begin by expressing my deepest gratitude to my long-time collaborators. Wenyao Sha, your insights and contributions to our joint cases and articles about crypto have been invaluable. Nicolas, our stimulating conversations over the years have greatly enriched this book and my understanding of the blockchain space.

I would also like to extend my heartfelt gratitude to Andrew Wu for his invaluable notes, comments, and feedback. Your insights have significantly shaped the content of this book. A big thank-you to Sila Ordu for her support in tailoring the book to students’ needs and for making the coding examples and figures as precise as humanly possible. Your contributions have been essential to this book.

A thank-you to the team at Wiley, especially Bill and Stacey, for deciding with me to take on the Herculean task of speeding things up and setting deadlines so tight that we could have written a thank-you card, but instead, we wrote a whole book. Your confidence in my abilities (and your knack for suspense) ensured I was always on the edge of my seat, turning this endeavor into a thrilling adventure.

Now, to my dear colleagues at Harvard Business School: your unyielding devotion to traditional finance and your allergic reaction to new technologies have been a constant source of amusement and motivation for me. Who knew that your insistence on clinging to the past would make writing this book so much fun?

On a more personal note, I want to thank ...