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BNZ Fintech Speaker Series
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May 13, 2022
Advocacy, Awards, and Member Survey - November Newsletter
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 "BNZ Fintech Speaker Series"
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BlockchainNZ & Web3NZ Awards 2024
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 "BNZ Fintech Speaker Series"
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Introducing our new Executive Council | September Newsletter
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 "BNZ Fintech Speaker Series"
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Meet the New Members of the Blockchain NZ Executive Council
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 "BNZ Fintech Speaker Series"
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BlockchainNZ News
Blockchain NZ Podcast Series
Kia Ora and welcome to the very first episode of the Blockchain New Zealand Podcast. I’m Jeff Nijsse and today I’m talking to Jonty Kelt. Jonty is the Founder of Fantail Ventures, a venture capital business that has invested in some of the biggest names in crypto, including Kraken, Ledger, Stac
May 12, 2022
Research and trends
What are DAOs?
DAOs (decentralised autonomous organisations) are online-native decentralised organisations with self-enforcing rules, governed by their members, and use distributed ledger technology, such as blockchain. DAOs use distributed ledger technology, and often use third-party blockchain platforms, such a
May 11, 2022
Blockchain Technology, BlockchainNZ News
How the CryptoCurrency Security Standard (CCSS) can benefit your Blockchain Project
Article written by Marc Krisjanous, Senior Security Consultant at Confide – BlockchainNZ member The CryptoCurrency Security Standard (CCSS) is an information security management standard that provides a set of security controls for cryptocurrencies. After reading the above you may consider
May 2, 2022
Industry News
BlockchainNZ and Blockchain Association Singapore memorandum of understanding (MOU)
BlockchainNZ and Blockchain Association Singapore recently entered into a memorandum of understanding (MOU). BlockchainNZ chair, Bryan Ventura, believes “The MOU is a stepping stone and platform for both New Zealand and Singapore blockchain ecosystems to interact more and share knowledg
April 26, 2022
BlockchainNZ News
Is blockchain's negative press justified?
In the early days of the internet, it was drilled into us that there would always be bad actors lurking - never talk to strangers, don’t post sensitive information online, and always be aware of scams. As the years have gone by, we have become more and more comfortable with what we do on
April 20, 2022
Research and trends
NFTs
NFTs (non-fungible tokens) and their varying and increasingly exciting uses are taking the blockchain world by storm. These little decentralised hashes have quite literally unlimited potential to shape everything from event ticketing to the development of web 3.0 and the metaverse. Let’s dig in:&
April 5, 2022
Blockchain Technology
Tokens
Introduction Why would tokens need an introduction you ask? Lets start with an example. Here in West Auckland we need to put tags on our rubbish and recycling bins before they will be collected and emptied by the waste disposal folks. Not just any tags though. The nice plastic stickers have to b
March 21, 2022
BlockchainNZ News
Cryptocurrency and the edge of power
The blockchain and cryptocurrency community saw an historic moment last week when US President Joe Biden signed an executive order on cryptocurrencies. We’ve known for some time that the White House has been investigating cryptocurrencies, yet nobody was certain if this would help or hinder th
March 15, 2022
Member Profiles
DLT as a Service - a revolutionary platform for business
This article was originally written and published by ASX, member of BlockchainNZ. For information on ASX find the original article here. While it’s been some years since Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) emerged as the next generation of digital innovation, vast improvements to this technolo
March 13, 2022