Securing transactions from farm to fork: tapping the global potential in blockchain-enabled smart tradeHear BeefLedger Chair Warwick Powell discuss the ‘Smart trade’ team’s blockchain-backed digital platform and its potential to streamline cross-border trade.
Smart Trade Hubs project shortlisted for ACS Digital Disruptor awardThe CRC's 'Smart trade hubs' collaboration, involving QUT and SME BeefLedger, was one of just two finalists for ICT Research Project of the Year in the ACS's 2022 Digital Disruptor Awards'.
World-first blockchain-enabled credentialled marketplace – eCommerce 3.0 is hereQUT and Smart Trade Networks have just launched the world’s first fully blockchain-enabled credentialled marketplace. In their next 'Smart trade hubs' project, just commenced under the CRC, they plan to extend it to other commodities and markets.
Smart trade platform progresses from POC to Asian expansionIn stage 2 of the Smart Trade Hubs program, QUT and SCP Capital will extend their blockchain-backed digital trading platform, developed for premium beef exports to China, to high-value fruits, wines and artisan liquor destined for markets across Asia.
Marcus Foth: food and data interaction expertQUT Design Lab head and Professor of Urban Informatics Marcus Foth undertakes cutting-edge transdisciplinary work that “brings together people, place and technology". He's also leading the CRC's Smart Trade Hubs project, and using his expertise to help save wombats and bees.
2020 CRC Research Showcase round-upOn 2 December 2020, the CRC hosted its first online Research Showcase, highlighting projects approved, in progress and completed under our three Research Programs (RPs) over the CRC's first full year of operation.
Future Food System CRC’s first smart trade hubs research project kicks offBeefLedger and an interdisciplinary research team at QUT will work with food-buying groups across Australia and China to explore blockchain-based approaches to streamlining cross-border trade, in the initial proof-of-concept stage of a multi-stage Future Food Systems project that will develop the soft and hard digital infrastructure needed to support the growth of smart trade.
BeefLedger: Technology for secure, streamlined, transparent transactionsNew CRC partner BeefLedger, with its expertise in blockchain technology and hands-on experience in the Chinese market, will be a boon to participants looking to export premium high-value food products. And that doesn’t just mean beef. Driven by a belief that consumers and all supply-chain participants can benefit from greater transparency and streamlined transactions, research-driven…