Blockchain technology is becoming a core infrastructure for the global economy.
This technology supports digital currencies and has the potential to cause significant economic and social change. Blockchain disruption has been likened to the social transformations brought about by the internet.
What we do
The RMIT Blockchain Innovation Hub was established in 2017 and has quickly grown with emerging blockchain research as the technology integrates into industry applications. Our team consists of world class researchers across economics, finance, law, accounting, information technology and other related fields from within the social sciences.
We deliver purposeful and industry partnered research while providing solutions to solve real issues in the community. Our research is underpinned by internal and external collaborations, which enables the delivery of varied and valuable educational pathways that fosters and will accelerate the digital economy.
We have a strong focus on industry related projects which allow us to solve economic, social science and technological challenges in designing the blockchain economy. This not only generates industry impact but also delivers research outcomes.
BIH Highlights
The convergence of web3, authenticated data, and AI has significant implications for how we navigate information and make decisions in a rapidly evolving technological landscape.
Learn with Coinspot and read this trending article written by Dr Aaron Lane and Dr Darcy Allen on Web3 and Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI).
Around 70 native food business practitioners attended the First Nations Native Food Blockchain Workshop in February 2024 to explore blockchain technology and its potential to support positive outcomes for Victorian Aboriginal native food businesses.
BIH have partnered with Australian crypto exchange CoinSpot to produce educational articles on blockchain technology which aim to increase user knowledge, understanding and opportunities.
New weekly podcast series D3 The Digital3 Podcast hosted by D3 Director Professor Chris Berg has been released. Each episode explores emerging technology and its impact on various aspects of society delving into conversations with guests who share their experiences, research, and ideas relating to the creation and development of a digital economy.
Blockchain Innovation Hub Researchers Dr Darcy Allen and Dr Aaron Lane appeared as expert witnesses into the inquiry on the use of Generative AI in the Australian Education System by the Commonwealth House Standing Committee of Employment Education and Training. Find out more …
We were honored to win the Excellence in Blockchain Education at the Australian blockchain industry awards hosted by Blockchain Australia on Friday 9 November 2023 🏆 and congratulate researcher Dr Nataliya Ilyushina for her nomination in the Rising Star category. 🌟
🙌 Congratulations to two of our awesome BIH Researchers - Professor Sinclair Davidson and Dr Nataliya Ilyushina who have been featured in the 12th edition of The Journal of The British Blockchain Association
Behind The Scenes in the RMIT Blockchain Innovation Hub ‘studio’ with Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) interviewing Darcy Allen this week on the The Business program to talk about the resurgence of crypto prices.
Nearly 30% of digital games are #web3 based and this is set to increase, which is why D3 developed their new #web3 gaming online short course designed by the team at The Business School at RMIT University Vietnam. Find out more🎮 🎯
Dr Aaron Lane provides an update on the Australian Government’s #digital #asset regulation proposal
This year our strong partnerships continued with the blockchain ecosystem allowing students to have a deeper understanding of the latest innovations being developed in their fields of study and career opportunities as well as hands on experience.
The RMIT Blockchain Innovation Hub team Dr Sarah Sinclair, Luci Kovarcikova, Dr Aaron Lane and Dist Prof Jason Potts were merched up and enjoyed speaking to all the new students and parents about blockchain career opportunities at the RMIT Open Day in August.
New D3 Director Chris Berg, will lead D3 into the next stage of its journey in the digital economy
Professor Marshall and Dr Mohammad Alamgir Hossain from the RMIT Business and Human Rights Centre have produced a new online short course with D3 which dives into disruptive tech such as blockchain and its potential to achieve SDG goals .
Gen AI is a productivity tool and the way to learn about it, is to use it.
This was the take home message from the RMIT Blockchain Innovation Hub team yesterday who joined The Business School RMIT University Vietnam, to host a workshop on using Gen AI for academic research
Visiting PhD Fellow and OpenInnoTrain project secondee Henrik Axelsen discovers more about managing culture in gaming communities than he expected...
NEW D3 COURSE DROP - Generative AI such as ChatGPT is already being used in businesses to lower costs, deliver new services better and faster, and to create new production capabilities. This four week online course, will teach you how generative AI works as you unpack the dynamics and implications of this technology on the economy, society, and work.
RMIT students take part in central bank digital currency (CBDC) use case pilot as part of a collaborative research project by the Reserve Bank of Australia and Digital Finance Cooperative Research Centre (DFCRC) to demonstrate how a university can step in and provide immediate financial support through the disbursement of CBDC in emergency situations.
NEW D3 COURSE DROP - NFTs: The Practical Guide. This short four-week course has been created for business professionals, entrepreneurs and anyone who is curious about NFTs.
Congratulations to Matthew Green and the RMIT Blockchain Club on hosting a very successful event yesterday to kick off the 2023 first semester!
The What’s Governing Web3 Symposium was essentially a massive week of presentations, workshops and networking taking place from the 12 to 15 December 2022 in Melbourne.
A Digital CBD Roadmap has been released today by RMIT that provides a clear vision for Melbourne to start moving towards a globally influential digital city by as soon as 2023 if funding is prioritised.
A big crowd came to watch the preview of the Coinbase documentary COIN: A Founder’s Story on Tuesday 22 November held at the RMIT Theatre on Swanston Street.
Congratulations to Dr Alexia Maddox on being awarded the RMIT 2022 Rising Media Star!! 💪🏾
The October Web3 Meetup was ‘Metaverse Madness’ giving attendees not only an insight into why the metaverse is hot property right now, but also a taste of virtual reality in real time!
RMIT has officially launched its flagship digital economy business school ‘Digital3’ which incorporates world leading research centres including the Blockchain Innovation Hub.
RMIT Digital3 has officially launched and is what RMIT Blockchain Innovation Hub Director Jason Potts describes as being inspired by a design school but for business in a new era of composable #economicinfrastructure. Read Jason’s full keynote speech from the D3 launch here
RMIT’s newly launched Digital 3 has just dropped an exciting and ‘first of its kind’ Web3 business course aptly called ‘Doing Business in Web3’.
The latest Mint & Burn podcast features the first episode in a monthly ‘reading group’ series on digital ethnography in blockchain governance which is a collaboration with RMIT Blockchain Innovation Hub, the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society and The Metagovernance Project
Australia needs to look beyond the low token prices and hold a serious inquiry into the global opportunities presented by blockchain and web3.
Opinion by BIH’s Sinclair Davidson and Coinbase Institute’s Cesare Fracassi published in the Australian Financial Review on 27 September 2022
Acknowledgement of Country
The RMIT Blockchain Innovation Hub acknowledges the people of the Woi wurrung and Boon wurrung language groups of the eastern Kulin Nation on whose unceded lands we conduct our business. Web3 is a new digital space that while not geographical in space, acknowledges cultural law and customs of the first peoples sovereign connection to this land and we want to pay our respects to their Ancestors and Elders, past and present.