The RMIT Blockchain Innovation Hub connects industry with expert researchers to evaluate and workshop innovative tailor made blockchain solutions. Project highlights include:
Digital CBD Project
Aim: To provide a strategic roadmap developed across five reports for cross sector adjustments to the post COVID-19 digital environment.
The Project: A collaborative project with the RMIT Centre for Cyber Security Research and Innovation and the RMIT Digital Ethnography Research Centre and commissioned by the Victorian Higher Education State Investment Fund (VHESIF), to conduct large scale research and produce a series of five reports that consider the acceleration of digital technology directly impacted by COVID-19 and consequently, the opportunity areas for a digital CBD.
Opportunities and disruptions for real estate
Aim: To provide leading-edge blockchain research and promoting its use in real world applications that can take the real estate industry into the future.
The Project: The Blockchain Innovation Hub collaborated with the Real Estate Institute of Australia (REIA) and the Real Estate Institute of New Zealand (REINZ) to produce the industry report ‘Blockchain: opportunities and disruptors for real estate’ which provides a range of opportunities and applications that the real estate industry can adopt straight away to enhance customer experiences as well as streamline processes.
DeFi to alleviate poverty
Aim: To assist in alleviating poverty in the developing world through DeFi.
The Project: There are substantial barriers to adopting DeFi in developing economies such as a lack of knowledge and understanding of the technology and its application to more complex barriers around cultural values. The first part of this project will use experimental economics methods to conduct randomised control trials (RCT) in two developing economies, Guatemala and Vietnam. Participants will be given differential access and education to see how individuals interact with DeFi. The second part will use the data collected by the experiments to calibrate agent-based models that simulate the interaction of financial literacy, financial access and wealth dynamics.
The Templeton World Charity Foundation Inc are a global philanthropy with more than 200 projects in over 50 countries. Their mission is to support new scientific research on human flourishing and to translate these basic discoveries into practical tools.
FutureLearn short courses
Aim: We have teamed up with FutureLearn to provide a series of accredited online short courses designed by our RMIT Blockchain Hub team of experts.
The Project: Provide greater opportunity and access for a global market to upskill in key blockchain and digital skills. The current short course looks at the future of decentralised finance to grow an understanding of blockchain-powered cryptocurrencies - ‘Decentralised Finance: Blockchain, Ethereum, and The Future of Banking’ . Further unique blockchain short courses designed by the RMIT Blockchain Innovation Hub are scheduled to be launched in late 2022.
Futurelearn is a private company jointly owned by The SEEK Group and The Open University which has 50 years of experience in distance learning and online education.