RWA Training Series - Blockchain Basic for Finance and Fund Professionals (Cyberport as the supporting organisation)

Course Description : This is NOT a generic blockchain course for developers or crypto enthusiasts. It is a finance-first curriculum designed specifically for fund managers, administrators, compliance, and operations professionals. Every technical concept—from distributed ledger to hashing to consensus to smart contracts—is explained through the lens of how it impacts fund operations, investor compliance, and operational risk. You will learn to speak the language of blockchain while understanding exactly why it matters for your day-to-day work in the fund/finance industry

Audience: Finance and Fund professionals with little to no prior knowledge. Essential for anyone in finance, operations, product, fund accountant, or compliance entering the digital asset/RWA space

Duration: 3-Hour Intensive class

Course Fee : HK$3,000 (Includes coffee, tea, and light pastries served 30 minutes before class, allowing participants to warm up and connect with peers and instructors prior to the start)

Discount : AFA members - 15% off, members of AFA’s partner associations - 10% off, Alumni of HKU Space Fund Administration course - 10% off

Lecturer :  Raymond Chung / Andrew Wong

Guest Speakers :   Web3 firms

Venue  :     Smart Living Lab3, Core C, Level 3, Cyberport 3

Language: The course is taught primarily in English, with Cantonese used as a supplementary language when needed

Class size: A minimum of 5 participants is required to start the course, and the maximum capacity is 20 participants per session

Date  :    9 May (Sat) 10am – 1pm (9.30am - coffee/tea, and light pastries before class)

Application Deadline : 6 May (Wed) 5pm

Curriculum

• Module 1: The "Trust Machine" – How Blockchain Creates a Single Source of Truth for Fund’s Book and Records – how blockchain technology (distributed ledger, nodes, transaction blocks, hashing and consensus) that turns a simple database into an imputable, trustless single source of truth of fund’s book and records

• Module 2: Digital Identity & Permissions: Wallets as Role-Based Access for Fund Stakeholders – Types of Wallets, Access Control via Public and Private Keys, and Moving Beyond from KYC to KYT

• Module 3: The Automated Fund Operations – What is a smart contract and how smart contract automates the fund operation, distribution and the compliance, understand the risk and how to mitigate the risks

• Module 4: The Cost of On-Chain Operations – what is gas fee and the fund’s running cost on blockchain, the economics of running a fund on a public network and strategies to optimize costs

• Module 5: How Funds Get Real-World Prices onto the Blockchain – Understand the Oracle problems and its solutions and the risks, how to obtain crypto prices for valuation and NAV feed into blockchain

• Module 6: Selecting Your Fund’s “blockchain Jurisdiction” - Choosing the right blockchain for your fund/RWA products distribution

• Module 7: New Forms of Non-Financial Risks – Understanding the new non-financial risk framework- GBBC’s Risk Mitigation Framework introduction

• Module 8: A Framework for Technology Evaluation - Evaluating Blockchain Infrastructure: The Trade-offs Between Security, Scalability, and Decentralization

• Module 9: The Big Picture - A visual map of the entire ecosystem, helping professionals understand where different vendors (blockchain auditor, wallet providers, exchanges) fit in the new value chain.

Certificate: Upon completion, participants will receive a "Certificate of Attendance" officially issued by AFA.