First up, we have a few events this week including Brisbane tomorrow and then Perth on Friday. Check out the links here:
25th June - Brisbane - https://lu.ma/cpf8z3md
28th June - Perth - https://lu.ma/6j3mcvy3
17th July - Melbourne - https://lu.ma/m5qknu2j
31st July - Sydney - https://lu.ma/4gbe964y
In last week’s Getting to know the Community series, we heard from Hannah Glass of King & Wood Mallesons, a law firm that’s been involved in the crypto space quite heavily here in Australia. We learn about Hannah’s journey into this space and how important it is to consider the regulation angle in your project (apart from just the technology and commercialisation aspects)
Great share here by pioneer of the blockchain industry in Australia here with Ronald M. Tucker 's address to the audience at the Blockchain Australia Week gala last week
Highlights from the afterparty by OKX here too https://twitter.com/OKXAustralia/status/1803223518181736956
Great to see Raoul Pal in the The Australian Financial Review from his stint here in Australia https://www.afr.com/markets/equity-markets/this-macro-master-doesn-t-come-with-tales-of-impending-doom-20240611-p5jkx5
We also got to see the NAB announcement in the AFR about the stoppage of their stablecoin endeavours especially as the key proponents driving it internally have all moved out. https://www.afr.com/companies/financial-services/nab-kills-its-stablecoin-bankers-decamp-to-form-ubiquity-20240614-p5jlv3
Two of those were Drew Bradford and Robert Waugh. We were lucky enough to interview both of them earlier in the year in these two separate podcasts for the getting to know the community series on our YouTube. Check it out.
Here's Drew
And here is Rob
NAB later clarified that they’re still inviolved in crypto just via their investment in the custody platform Zodia Custody https://www.linkedin.com/posts/katecooper_nab-clarifies-crypto-strategy-with-investment-activity-7209033622069145601-vfaS?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop
Great to see Upside x ArtsiX event last week (which we supported and had Debbie Yuen represent at). Check out the highlight walk through here as Upside was turned into an NFT Gallery https://x.com/0xUpside/status/1802976008972492900
Community member Priyanka Tripathi took some shots of it too https://www.linkedin.com/posts/priyankatripathi23_last-night-i-had-the-privilege-of-visiting-activity-7209023056189558784-GY-H?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop
And our own post on it too https://x.com/AusDeFi/status/1804375283174379800
We also saw the folks at Blockdaemon share the week that they had - we love the support we get from them so it’s well worth looking into the infrastructure they provide the industry https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7208763882226544640/
The Digital Assets Influencer list is out again from Blockchain APAC - so it's time to get voting! https://www.linkedin.com/posts/stevevallas_last-year-we-launched-the-inaugural-top-50-activity-7208596790319726593-qllc?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop
A win for Consensus in the battle they had against the SEC it seems https://x.com/Consensys/status/1803230653120659641?t=N3b6esmkLl0YsZTzWXp98A&s=19
Something brewing over in Independent Reserve world https://www.linkedin.com/posts/independent-reserve_somethings-brewing-in-singapore-just-ugcPost-7209090827547987969-wv6y?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_android
Also great to see something Zerocap crew are up to with Franklin Templeton
We'll leave you with this summary of a paper on Tokenisation by McKinsey that John Ho of Standard Chartered shared on his LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/posts/activity-7210306727122993152-j2hJ?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_android
Full paper here https://www.mckinsey.com/industries/financial-services/our-insights/from-ripples-to-waves-the-transformational-power-of-tokenizing-assets
See you next week, folks, for another round of highlights!
About Aus DeFi Association
The Australian DeFi Association (Aus DeFi) is a non-profit community organisation dedicated to increasing education and awareness of blockchain technology, specifically decentralised finance (DeFi) and web3-based projects. Their goal is to empower the Australian community with the knowledge and tools to participate in the decentralised economy, and to promote the adoption and growth of blockchain technology in Australia. They strive to provide a more grassroots approach to promoting blockchain technology compared to other industry-focused organisations in Australia, and to provide a platform for community members to learn about and engage with this emerging technology.
You can watch our recorded meetups and interviews here on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@ausdefiassociation3956/videos
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