Course Description

The growth of blockchain adoption across capital markets has highlighted a new need for competitive enterprises: infrastructure built for compliance, auditability, and operational control. This course explores how the Polymesh blockchain addresses regulatory risks, identity verification, and custodial controls that traditional public blockchains cannot. Participants will learn how permissioned blockchain networks like Polymesh enable institutions to issue, track, and manage digital assets securely and in alignment with regulatory requirements. The course also covers how financial professionals can leverage data automation and subledger integration for tokenized securities and other blockchain-native assets.

This course fulfills CPE objectives.

After this course, learners should be able to:

  • Explain the technical and compliance-driven reasons why financial institutions are shifting from permissionless to permissioned blockchain infrastructure.

  • Analyze how the Polymesh blockchain addresses specific challenges around identity, smart contract risk, and compliance in capital markets.

  • Evaluate the operational, accounting, and tax implications of managing digital assets and tokenized securities on-chain.

  • Differentiate between custodial and non-custodial models of asset management on blockchains, including implications for financial reporting and reconciliation.

Your Instructors

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Jim leads the Revenue team at Bitwave and is responsible for driving sales growth and establishing strategic partnerships. Prior to Bitwave, Jim spent 8 years at FIS, a Fortune 300 FinTech company. At FIS, Jim held various roles such as Enterprise Account Executive where he sold multi-million ARR B2B payments deals to Fortune 2000 companies such as IBM, AT&T, and Pepsi. After being promoted to a VP of Sales role, Jim led the expansion of an Enterprise sales team from 3 to 30 Account Executives, growing sales from under $5mm in ARR to over $40mm via a direct sales channel to companies like Walgreens, PetSmart, and Paramount and a reseller channel via banks like HSBC, MUFG, and Truist Bank.

Jim Thompson

CRO at Bitwave

Your Instructors

Get to know the expert contributors to this course

Graeme Moore co-founded Polymesh Association, a not-for-profit dedicated to the growth of the Polymesh ecosystem. Polymesh is a leading public permissioned blockchain purpose-built for real world assets, and Polymesh Private is a private permissioned instance that can be deployed by enterprises. Previously, Graeme was the first employee at Polymath; the creative director at Spartan Race; and an associate at Canada’s largest independent investment advisory firm.

Graeme Moore

Polymesh Association

Course curriculum

    1. Course Materials

    2. Module 1: Why Blockchain for Institutions?

    3. CPE Review Checkpoint

    4. Module 2: Why Polymesh?

    5. CPE Review Checkpoint

    6. Module 3: Solving the Financial & Compliance Challenge

    7. Module 4: Why Bitwave & Polymesh

    8. CPE Qualified Assessment - Pass this assessment to earn CPE!

About this course

  • 8 lessons
  • 1 hour of video content
  • 1.0 CPE Credits (Specialized Knowledge)

Other CPE Info

  • Program Level

    Intermediate. This course assumes some prior exposure to blockchain concepts and financial operations, but not expert-level technical or regulatory knowledge.

  • Advance Preparation

    None

  • Delivery

    QAS Self Study

  • Prerequisites

    Basic knowledge of blockchain or digital assets and familiarity with financial services or capital markets is recommended.

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