14 November 2024
Kia ora, In September, BlockchainNZ submitted to Parliament’s Finance and Expenditure Committee Inquiry into Banking Competition, addressing the challenges Web3 businesses in New Zealand face in accessing and maintaining essential banking services. This week, BlockchainNZ Chair, Jeremy Muir, presented to the Committee, summarising our submission, and responding to their questions. We are also preparing a … Continue reading "MBIE’s Long-term Insights Briefing on the future of business is here!"
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02 October 2024
Welcome to the BlockchainNZ & Web3NZ Awards 2024. This is your chance to celebrate the outstanding contributions to Aotearoa’s blockchain and Web3 industries. This year, we’re honouring the innovators, leaders, and trailblazers who have made a real difference in our vibrant ecosystem. Whether you’re an individual or a business, we invite you to recognise those … Continue reading "MBIE’s Long-term Insights Briefing on the future of business is here!"
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25 September 2024
Kia ora, As we welcome the vibrant energy of spring, we embrace a season of renewal and fresh beginnings here at Blockchain NZ. Just as nature transforms around us, so too does our commitment to fostering innovation and collaboration within the blockchain community. It is my pleasure to welcome our newly elected Blockchain NZ Executive … Continue reading "MBIE’s Long-term Insights Briefing on the future of business is here!"
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24 September 2024
Spring has brought fresh beginnings at Blockchain NZ, and we’re excited to introduce the newly elected members of our Executive Council. Each of these industry leaders brings unique expertise and passion to the table, ready to drive the next wave of innovation and collaboration in Aotearoa’s blockchain community. Memoona Zareen – University of Auckland Memoona … Continue reading "MBIE’s Long-term Insights Briefing on the future of business is here!"
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Ministry of Business, Innovation, and Employment are thrilled to share our Long-term Insights Briefing on the Future of Business for Aotearoa New Zealand. The full Briefing and a summary A3 page are now available on MBIE’s website link here: MBIE Long-term Insights Briefing MBIE’s Brief
November 6, 2022
The Executive Councils of the New Zealand IoT Alliance and BlockchainNZ have identified organisational synergies that could deliver significant societal and commercial benefits. Significant efficiency gains and security improvements can be achieved by leveraging blockchain's decentralised
October 19, 2022
The Executive Councils of the New Zealand IoT Alliance and BlockchainNZ have identified organisational synergies that could deliver significant societal and commercial benefits. Significant efficiency gains and security improvements can be achieved by leveraging blockchain's decentralised
October 19, 2022
Last month we held the BlockchainNZ Annual Meeting, where myself, and our Council Chair, Bryan Ventura, presented on the progress we’ve made over the last 12 months, what our strategic vision and core activities will be in 2023, and introduced our new council members. A quick recap of o
October 18, 2022
Marc Krisjanous is a cyber security turned crypto auditor that been working with the C4 cryptocurrency consortium to develop the new cryptocurrency auditor certification course (CCSSA). Marc is presently undertaking the first ever audit of a business using the standard to asses their crypto sec
October 13, 2022
Paul Stonham is the General manager of the DLT division at the Australian Stock Exchange. For the last few years the ASX has been developing an enterprise DLT that uses VMware's blockchain and runs the DAML smart contract language. In this conversation we talk traditional finance getting into distr
September 29, 2022
BlockchainNZ is delighted to announce Easy Crypto as the inaugural sponsor of the BlockchainNZ podcast! The podcast was co-founded by BlockchainNZ council members, Jeff Nijsse and Bryan Ventura, in mid-2022, to early success. Podcast episodes are hosted by Jeff Nijsse, and availa
September 28, 2022
If you are operating in the web3 space or have an idea and need support, please get in touch. Web3 projects often require additional legal, regulatory, and taxation understanding. In addition, blockchain-related products and applications often require a large amount of code review, testing and secu
September 23, 2022
This past Thursday there was a noteworthy event in the crypto space. The Ethereum main chain was upgraded from a proof-of-work consensus algorithm to a proof-of-stake one. Like a train switching from an old well-worn track to a shiny new one, it went seamlessly, which is a big win for Ethereum, but
September 21, 2022
The BCNZ Pod keeps you up to date on the blockchain and cryptocurrency community in and around New Zealand. For more details about The Blockchain New Zealand Podcast head to https://podcast.blockchain.org.nz/ Latest Episode: E07 - Tornado Cash and The Merge; Bryan and Jeff Roundtable 1
September 9, 2022