Blockchain Fundamental Analysis for Digital Asset Investors

This book aims to equip new and existing digital asset investors with the skills and abilities to help identify, evaluate, and ultimately invest in fundamentally strong crypto projects. Possessing such skills helps reduce investor risk, increases profits, and overall helps to maintain long-term success. Without a solid, robust procedure to evaluate digital asset investments, investment decisions are made based on hype or influencer reviews, which, in the end, is nothing short of a lottery ticket. The first two chapters introduce blockchain technology and digital assets before starting with the fundamental elements (16chapters in total). In a nutshell, blockchain fundamentals are the core and heart of the technology, but they also expand to different aspects that directly impact the value of a project and corresponding digital asset. Many areas fall under the umbrella of blockchain fundamentals, including the underlying technology, distributed ledger technology, decentralization, cryptographic hash functions, transaction blocks, consensus mechanisms, immutability, smart contracts, and tokens and cryptocurrency (coins). Each of these topics is discussed and explored; however, this alone is not enough to enable investors to make a well-informed investment decision. There are thirteen core fundamental elements that form the fundamental evaluation procedure for digital asset investors.Each fundamental element is discussed in detail,and case studies are provided to explain the evaluation process to the reader visually. What You Will Learn How investors can grow their skill set and awareness and identify quality projects while avoiding the less worthy and fraudulent endeavors How toanalyze and assess fundamental elements such as the project documentation, value offering, architecture, the project team How token design provides valuable insight that helps evaluate the potential of a blockchain project Who This Book is For This book is for anyone interested in investing in digital assets. No prior knowledge is needed because it is designed and written for beginners to intermediate-level readers.