Decentralised Autonomous Organisations (DAOs): How Finance Can Interact with Blockchain-based DAOs

Finance & Investment
Innovation & Business Improvement

Next Intake: 7 Apr 2025 (Mon)

Basic
SkillsFuture
Short Courses

This module is conducted online.

Next course starts on

7 Apr 2025 (Mon) See Full Schedule

Fee

SGD2,180* (as low as SGD254 after maximum funding) Learn More

Duration

2 Full Days (Weekdays)

Level

Basic

Who Should Attend

Financial services professionals
FinTech and crypto entrepreneurs
Venture capitalists and other investors
Regulators and policy makers.

PREREQUISITES

Participants will benefit from knowing blockchain basics, or have taken blockchain and digital assets courses offered by SMU Academy such as Graduate Certificate in Digital Finance Module 2: Digital Assets and Blockchain Technology.

Overview

Discover how Decentralised Autonomous Organisations (DAOs) are reshaping governance and organisational structures and the impact they are having on finance, business and various sectors.

What are DAOs and what is the context for their emergence? What purpose do they serve and how are they different from firms? More importantly, how are they relevant for financial services professionals, FinTech and crypto entrepreneurs, and regulators? To understand and decide how to engage with DAOs, this course introduces an original DAO framework to help participants decipher a DAO. Additionally, it also presents a DAO risk assessment methodology for financial services professionals. DAOs may not be ubiquitous now, but increasingly, innovative financial institutions, governments and supranationals are paying attention to them. What are the opportunities and challenges of DAOs, and how will they earn their place in a tokenised future? Adapted from the publication of the same name, these questions will be addressed in this 2-day course.

Learning Objectives

At the end of the 2-day course, participants will be able to:

Learn about origin, purpose definitions and opportunities of Decentralised Autonomous Organisations (DAOs)
Understand the role and implications of blockchain as the operating system of DAOs
Explore DAOs’ governance process and dispute resolution methods
Learn how to apply our original DAO framework to decipher a DAO according to their categories, sub-categories and features
Understand DAOs’ idiosyncratic risks
Learn to apply our original DAO risk assessment methodology to analyse DAOs

Assessment

As part of the requirement for SkillsFuture Singapore, there will be an assessment conducted at the end of the course. The mode of assessment, which is up to the trainer’s discretion, may be an online quiz, a presentation or based on classroom exercises.

Participants are required to attain a minimum of 75% attendance and pass the associated assessment in order to receive a digital Certificate of Completion issued by Singapore Management University.

Calculate Programme Fee

Fee Table

COMPANY-SPONSORED

PARTICIPANT PROFILE

SELF-SPONSORED

SME

NON-SME

Singapore Citizen < 40 years old

Permanent Resident

LTVP+

$654

(After SSG Funding 70%)

$254

(After SSG Funding 70%
+ ETSS Funding 20%)

$654

(After SSG Funding 70%)

Singapore Citizen ≥ 40 years old

$254

(After SSG Funding 70%
+ MCES Funding 20%)

$254

(After SSG Funding 70%
+ ETSS Funding 20%)

$254

(After SSG Funding 70%
+ MCES Funding 20%)

International Participant

$2,180

(No Funding)

$2,180

(No Funding)

$2,180

(No Funding)

All prices include 9% GST

Please note that the programme fees are subject to change without prior notice.

Post Secondary Education Account (PSEA)
PSEA can be utilised for subsidised programmes eligible for SkillsFuture Credit support. Click here to find out more.

Self Sponsored

SkillsFuture Credit: Singapore Citizens aged 25 and above may use their SkillsFuture Credits to pay for the course fees. The credits may be used on top of existing course fee funding.

This is only applicable to self-sponsored participants. Application to utilise SkillsFuture Credits can be submitted when making payment for the course via the SMU Academy TMS Portal, and can only be made within 60 days of course start date.

Please click here for more information on the SkillsFuture Credit. For help in submitting an SFC claim, you may wish to refer to our step-by-step guide on claiming SkillsFuture Credits (Individual).
Workfare Skills Support Scheme: From 1 July 2023, the Workfare Skills Support (WSS) scheme has been enhanced. Please click here for more details.

Company Sponsored

Enhanced Training Support for SMEs (ETSS)

Organisation must be registered or incorporated in Singapore
Employment size of not more than 200 or with annual sales turnover of not more than $100 million
Trainees must be hired in accordance with the Employment Act and fully sponsored by their employers for the course
Trainees must be Singapore Citizens or Singapore Permanent Residents
Trainees must not be a full-time national serviceman
Trainees are eligible for ETSS funding only if their company's SME status is approved prior to the course commencement date. To verify your SME's status, please click here.

Please click here for more information on ETSS.

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