PROJECTS

Infosys

Website: https://www.infosys.com/

The Project: Working with Infosys and some of their key clients (Nestle, Kraft, Mondolez etc)  - perform critical exploration of supply chain vulnerabilities during unforeseen externalities (e.g. pandemics) and provide guidelines for a resilient supply chain network of the future. 

1. Identify causes of information asymmetry in the supply chains

2. Evaluate potential solutions to ensure supply chain resilience

3. Provide guidelines/ recommendations for national policy creation on agro supply chain (food assurance)

Improving Water Markets and Trading through New Digital Technologies

About: Civic Ledger's improving water markets and trading through new digital technologies pilot project focused on agricultural irrigators operating within the Mareeba-Dimbulah Water Supply Scheme (MDWSS) on the Atherton Tablelands in Far North Queensland.  This world first pilot project was conducted from April 2020 to September 2020 and co-funded by the CRC for Developing Northern Australia. 

The Project: The pilot project sought to deploy and test Civic Ledger’s blockchain enabled peer-to-peer water market and trading platform, Water Ledger. The Water Ledger trading platform was adapted to the MDWSS business and operating rules to observe how blockchain technology can reduce trading costs, improve the efficiency of trade processes, and increase water market transparency.  

Project participants include Far North Queensland (FNQ) Growers, Queensland Department of Natural Resources, Mines and Energy (QDNRME), Griffith University and Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT) Blockchain Innovation Hub. SunWater supported the research and was a key stakeholder in the research collaboration. 

The research project provided essential data for further research to be executed to inform trading market optimisation industry valuable feedback for further development of the Water Ledger platform to support emerging water markets across Northern Australia and beyond. 

The Final Report is available here.

Indigenous Food Project

About: Local Indigenous botanicals, often called bushfoods, are a growing trend in the Australian and international market. They are increasingly seen in food and beauty products on supermarket shelves, and in Australia’s top restaurants. While many of these products include Aboriginal inspired branding, very few are Indigenous owned (between 2 – 5%). Through the use of blockchain technology, we can create all Indigenous supply chains, each with unique and engaging stories for customers.

Objective: Develop a simple blockchain application Qeeap Chain that demonstrates provenance of an indigenous food product.

AEM Algorithm

Website: https://www.aemalgorithm.io/

About: AEM is the next generation of accounting system, which is built specifically for blockchain. AEM focusses on financial process innovation and provides first fully automated accounting system for alternative currencies. Seamless conversion of transactions to equivalent monetary value means that data can be easily extracted into any accounting software package or custom edited by the user. In this way financial reporting becomes streamlined and effortless.

The Project:  Journaler is a web-based application used for reconciliation of cryptocurrency transactions to capture their monetary value at the time of the transfer in line with accounting standards. The first version of the system has been integrated with NEM blockchain. Subsequent iterations will incorporate more blockchains and cryptocurrencies.

Silc Group

Website: www.silcgroup.com.au/

About: SILC is a specialised financial solutions provider with an Australian Financial Services Licence (AFSL) that services wholesale private, commercial and institutional clients.

The Project: Objective to tokenise global multi assets - to build a digitisation/tokenisation platform for global wholesale investors to access global assets including real assets, private assets, public assets, listed assets, synthetic assets and alternative assets.

Cascade Chain

About: Cascade Chain is a new start up business that aims to develop a platform that secures construction funds and streamline payment processes to ensure everyone involved in the supply chain receives payment on time and within contract. 

The Project: To develop a cloud based, blockchain based solution that facilitates secure, on-time payments to contractors, subcontractors and suppliers within the building project supply chain.

Simply Secure

Website: https://simplysecure.org/

About:   Simply Secure are a company that help practitioners design technology that centres and protects vulnerable populations. We provide capacity-building, research, and community for designers, researchers, and developers. Our expertise covers privacy, security, transparency, design ethics, and more.

The Project:   Developing a toolkit for Trust modelling. Trust modelling is a new concept that aims to provide technology designers with practical ways to design technology around the concept of trust instead of threat.

Mycelium  

https://mycelium.ventures/ 

About: Mycelium is focused on building and running market infrastructure that powers the financial world of tomorrow. 

The Project: Tracer - The Tracer protocol is a DAO governed network of financial smart contracts. The Factory smart contract can host any standardised financial contracts, starting with perpetual swaps. These perpetuals can be permissionlessly deployed, given any ERC20 token and oracle price feed. Once deployed anybody with an internet connection will gain access to Tracer's highly secure markets. 

The Blockchain Innovation Hub and Mycelium are working on the governance mechanism on constitutional economics and voting preferences for DAOs.  

National film and Sound Archive (NFSA)  

https://www.nfsa.gov.au/ 

About: The NFSA is Australia’s living archive with over 3 million items across film, radio, television, music, documents and artefacts in both digital and analogue formats. The NFSA’s mission to collect, preserve and share focuses on ensuring that objects preserved by the archive have comprehensive and legitimate data that documents the provenance of items and their history while in NFSA custody. This ensures that the NFSA is a trusted repository for important cultural collections and provides the Australian public with authentic, complete and accurate information. 

The Project:  The collaboration between the NFSA and RMIT explores the use of Blockchain’s within a cultural institution as a means of providing transparency and trust in traditional archival workflows applied to a digital environment. 

Parlour Gigs  

https://www.parlourgigs.com/ 

About: Parlour Gigs is a global technology platform with core mission to help artists build long term sustainable careers by building deeper connections with their fans. The team is passionate about using technology to create memorable and life changing experiences for artists and fans everywhere. 

Project:   The team are working together to establish a blockchain-based infrastructure that allows for a shareable social and permanent record of hosting and attending gigs. This digital infrastructure will allow artists to: 

· build deeper and more lasting connections with their fans, 
· amplify the cultural capital of early supporters and superfans, and 
· create new forms of merchandise and assets for fans that can have value on secondary markets. 

Vechain   

https://www.vechain.com/ 

About: The VeChain project started in June 2015, focusing on building a trust-free and distributed business ecosystem to enable transparent information flow, efficient collaboration and high-speed value transfer. Specializing in blockchain and IoT technologies, VeChain has become one of the few blockchain platforms with real world business applications adopted by reputable enterprises across multiple sectors worldwide. By providing robust and secure blockchain infrastructure, enterprise solutions, turnkey packages and development tools in both software and hardware, VeChain aims to enable its business partners and developers to adopt blockchain solutions for business and create a powerful and sustainable ecosystem. 

Project:   Vechain and the Blockchain Hub are jointly building a governance model for their ecosystem in which the bargaining power is more decentralized among various types of stakeholders.  

Elbaite  

https://www.elbaite.io/ 

About: Elbaite was founded in 2017 in Melbourne, Australia. From the very beginning, Elbaite has pursued a mission of creating a P2P cryptocurrency exchange that represents the decentralised nature of the Blockchain. The team is passionate about Blockchain and strive to push the industry forward by providing a trading platform that is built for the traders.  

Project:   The collaboration explores an opportunity of building a prototype of a commercial tool (StableCoin) that we can make available to our customers to help them solve their problems when using Elbaite to trade.  The  team will jointly develop best practice guideline and implementation documentation that helps customers get the best out of the Stable coin. 

Trust Alliance  

https://trustalliance.org.au/ 

 About: RMIT Blockchain Innovation Hub is a part of the The Trust Alliance which is a group of non-profit, academic and technology organisations coming together with a common purpose – to develop an identity ecosystem that would:  

• Give people better access to help when they need it; 

• Enable genuine civic, social and economic participation for all; 

• Create greater self-agency and control for those who are vulnerable; 

• Provide voice to marginalised communities, and; 

• Document the undocumented. 

Project:  “The Trust Alliance is a new way of coordinating humanitarian action. Using distributed technologies, an individual can access a credential and share it with another as needed, knowing that their personal information remains safe and secure.”

Trust Alliance New Zealand (TANZ) 

https://trustalliance.co.nz/ 

About: The Trust Alliance NZ is a non-profit Primary Industry consortium with members from both the private and public sector, looking to solve the challenges around data interoperability. The Trust Alliance NZ is building New Zealand’s digital infrastructure which will be owned and governed by the community. Focused on the Primary sector where New Zealand farmers, producers, growers, processors, service providers, exporters, retailers & consumers can easily capture, protect and share trusted data. 
 
Project:  The TANZ identity solution enables farmers, growers and all value chain participants to provide trustworthy data in a simple way to unlock value. Digital Identity is key to enable innovation, rapid process improvement, higher trust and simple, secure data sharing. 

Block8  
https://www.block8.com/  

About:  Block8 is Australia’s leading blockchain venture studio. They partner with startups, enterprise, and government to bring a professional product management and technical development capability that take ideas from zero to one.  

Project:  The Collaboration between the Blockchain Innovation Hub and Block8 will explore opportunities to build blockchain community activities and joint cryptoeconomic research and blockchain project applications.  

GoChain  
https://gochain.io/  

About: GoChain is a scalable, high performance, low cost, and decentralized cryptocurrency and blockchain that supports smart contracts and distributed applications. 

Project:  The team together will research beef and seafood export supply chains to China. 

FutureLearn 
https://www.futurelearn.com/ 

About: FutureLearn is a private company jointly owned by The Open University and The SEEK Group. The Open University have 50 years of experience in distance learning and online education. 
Project: The blockchain Innovation Hub will develop detailed course blueprint that explores Decentralised Finance with Blockchain Technologies 

Oasis Network  
https://oasisprotocol.org/ 

 About: The Oasis Network is a Layer 1, proof-of-stake, decentralized network Combined with its high throughput and secure architecture, the Oasis Network is able to power private, scalable DeFi, revolutionizing Open Finance and expanding it beyond traders and early adopters to a mass market.  

Project: RMIT will help support the Oasis network by running a node and further the vision for a better, more responsible data economy. Oasis Network is the largest University program on a Layer 1 blockchain network and partners with over 25 top universities and university clubs from Cambridge, Oxford and Berkeley to further enable its mission of building a responsible data economy. 

BTC Markets 
https://www.btcmarkets.net/ 

About: BTC Markets is Australia's largest, most liquid, and most reliable digital asset exchange. Founded in 2013, it is trusted by over 300,000 verified Australians. 

Project:  RMIT and BTC Market are exploring opportunities in the space of Regtech/data analysis

FlexDapps 
https://flexdapps.com/  

About: FlexDapps is an Australian privately owned company building self-contained blockchain-based applications and explores distributed architectural concepts. 

Project:  Both organisations joined together in putting through an application to Early-Stage Venture Capital Limited Partnerships (ESVCLP). The Early-Stage Venture Capital Limited Partnerships provides fund managers and investors with support to help stimulate early-stage venture capital investments. Benefits include tax exemptions on an investor's share of a fund's income and tax gains.