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Designing the Digital Economy

The RMIT Blockchain Innovation Hub is the world’s first research centre on the social science of blockchain
incorporating economics, sociology, public policy and political economy to provide a new way to understand
the global blockchain revolution.

 

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

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.