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The Worldwide Blockchain Innovation Association (WBIA) is a non-profit member organisation focused on blockchain uses.
We aim to create an environment in which academia, industry partners and policy makers together can advance the adoption of
distributed ledger technology in supply chains and logistics, promoting regional trade and economic prosperity.

The WBIA works with governments, industry, companies and academics to develop solutions for the changes that blockchain will
have on many existing structures and entities. We also link businesses with government, other businesses and academics.
Our international focus and our combination of research, policy co-ordination and government engagement set us apart from other
blockchain organisations.

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About Us

Who We Are

WBIA BOARD

Professor Jason Potts

President of the WBIA

Jason Potts is Professor of Economics at RMIT University and Director of the Blockchain Innovation Hub at RMIT. His research work focuses on the economics of innovation and new technologies, economic evolution, institutional economics, and complexity economics. He has written 5 books and published over 80 articles on topics including growth theory, creative industries, economics of cities, innovation commons, and recently on crypto-economics and blockchain.
He is editor of the Journal of Institutional Economics, Vice President of the International Joseph A Schumpeter Society, and a Board Member of Australian Digital Commerce Association.
In 2011, Professor Potts contributed to the Beijing Institute for the Science of Science ’Creative Cities Index’ project.
Further information on Professor Potts can be found on his website; http://jasonpotts.academia.edu/
You can follow him on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and WeChat.
Professor Jason Potts

Mr Dax Zheng

Vice President of the WBIA

Dax Zheng is a significant global investor with a recent interest in projects dedicated to blockchain technology applications and management.
Mr Zheng has established numerous companies as well as undertaking investments in areas ranging from aged care to science and technology.
He has participated in over $10 million worth of private equity and venture capital investments, including two investments in unicorn companies in China in 2018.
Additionally, Mr Zheng has a long history of successful business management and project operations experience.
Mr Zheng has studied at Monash University in Australia and Jinan University in China. He has also completed Financial Management, Business Administration, Executive MBA and other courses at Beijing University. In 2019, Mr Zheng attended the Owner/President Management (OPM) program at Harvard University.

You can follow him on Facebook and WeChat!

Mr Dax Zheng

Dr Christopher Berg

Founding Board Member

Chris Berg is a Senior Research Fellow at RMIT and works in the RMIT Blockchain Innovation Hub.
Hi is also a Senior Fellow with the Institute of Public Affairs and an Academic Fellow with the Australian Taxpayers’ Alliance. Dr Berg is the author of five books including The Libertarian Alternative.
Dr Berg has been a regular columnist with the Sunday Age and ABC’s The Drum. In addition, his articles have appeared in the Wall Street Journal, The Australian, the Australian Financial Review, and the Sydney Morning Herald, as well as magazines such as Quadrant, Spectator Australia and Overland.
He is a frequent media commentator on television and radio and appears regularly throughout the electronic press. His scholarly contributions have appeared in the Australian Journal of Political Science, Econ Journal Watch, Agenda, and Trends in Anaesthesia and Critical Care.
Further information on Dr Berg can be found on his website; http://chrisberg.org/
You can follow him on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and WeChat.
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STAFF

Mr Stuart Eaton

Executive Director

Stuart Eaton is the Executive Director of the Worldwide Blockchain Innovation Association (WBIA).
Prior to joining the WBIA, Stuart worked for almost two decades in a variety of professional political roles in Australia, including as a Chief of Staff and in senior advisory positions to Federal Ministers and party leaders, advising on policy areas as diverse as infrastructure, environment, education, foreign affairs, community services and gaming; as a lobbyist for a major bipartisan Australian firm; the director political engagement and communications for a prominent think tank, and on over a dozen election campaigns across Australia.
His professional career has seen him engage with politicians, organisations and businesses in the United States of America, the United Kingdom, Hong Kong, Canada, Germany and Vietnam.
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Goals

What We Do

The Worldwide Blockchain Innovation Association (WBIA) is a global association which combines numerous roles so that it can effectively act as a recognised blockchain expert, a trusted adviser to governments and a source of credible information for its members.

Comprised of leading academics and industry partners, the WBIA works in a collaborative environment with academia, industry partners and policy makers to advance the adoption of distributed ledger technology in supply chains and logistics, and to promote regional trade and economic prosperity.

The WBIA aims to grow cross-border trade and the global economy through the identification of the strategic advantages and opportunities for blockchain in business and society.

The development and implementation of these blockchain solutions will enhance efficiencies for governments, businesses, industries and organisations.

We develop these solutions through the use of high-quality, credible, world-leading academic research, and ensure their implementation, and the necessary multi-national policy co-ordination through international advocacy.

Establish a global industry consortium of firms focused on open standards and global regulatory harmonisation for distributed ledger supply chains and logistics applications.

Establish a think tank focused on helping policymakers and the public navigate the complex policy questions to ensure that blockchain technology can be adopted in a way that benefits the economy in society.

Educate domestic and global institutions (such as the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation group) about the importance of ‘crypto-friendly’ policy settings.

Advocate for policy settings that encourage the development of blockchain technology and its application.

Coordinate blockchain researchers and policy experts across universities, think tanks, blockchain associations, and industry associations at a global level.

Research

Research by Jason Potts
Research by Jason Potts
Research by Jason Potts
Research by Chris Berg
Research by Chris Berg
Research by Chris Berg

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Research authored and co-authored by Jason Potts

Blockchains & the economic institutions of capitalism (with Sinclair Davidson) –
http://www.academia.edu/attachments/53228995/download_file?s=portfolio

Blockchains and the Boundaries of Self-Organized Economies:
Predictions for the Future of Banking (with Trent J MacDonald) –
http://www.academia.edu/attachments/51576227/download_file?s=portfolio

How innovation commons contribute to discovering and developing new technologies (with Darcy W E Allen) –
http://www.academia.edu/attachments/50909885/download_file?s=portfolio

Some Economic Consequences of the GDPR (with Alastair Berg and Darcy W E Allen) –
http://www.academia.edu/attachments/57338673/download_file?s=portfolio

Identity as input to exchange (with Alastair Berg) –
http://www.academia.edu/attachments/57338647/download_file?s=portfolio

Keep your friends close, your enemies closer: The case for inclusive innovation policy (with Darcy W E Allen and Trent J MacDonald) –
http://www.academia.edu/attachments/51522192/download_file?s=portfolio

Blockchains industrialise trust (with Sinclair Davidson) – http://www.academia.edu/attachments/57251109/download_file?s=portfolio

The Cost of Trust: A Pilot Study (with Sinclair Davidson and Mikayla Novak) – http://www.academia.edu/attachments/57251100/download_file?s=portfolio

Beyond money: cryptocurrencies, machine- mediated transactions and high frequency bartering (with Sinclair Davidson) – http://www.academia.edu/attachments/57251079/download_file?s=portfolio

The economics of crypto-democracy (with Aaron Lane, Chris Berg and Darcy W E Allen) – http://www.academia.edu/attachments/53268087/download_file?s=portfolio

Blockchain TradeTech (with Darcy W E Allen and Mikayla Novak) – http://www.academia.edu/attachments/56963201/download_file?s=portfolio

Blockchain Economics: Implications of Distributed Ledgers:Markets, Communications Networks, and Algorithmic Reality (with Frank Witte) – https://www.amazon.co.uk/Blockchain-Economics-Implications-Distributed-Communications-ebook/dp/B07NQGQQF7/ref=dp_kinw_strp_1

Research authored and co-authored by Chris Berg

What does the blockchain mean for government? Cryptocurrencies in the Australian payments system (with Sinclair Davidson and Jason Potts) – http://chrisberg.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/BERGDAVIDSONPOTTS_CryptocurrenciesInThePaymentsSystem.pdf

Byzantine political economy (with Sinclair Davidson and Jason Potts) – https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3344110

Blockchains and institutional layering as a new approach to economic development (with Darcy Allen) – https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/Delivery.cfm/SSRN_ID3333568_code2248730.pdf?abstractid=3333568&mirid=1

Capitalism after Satoshi: Blockchains, dehierarchicalisation, innovation policy and the regulatory state (with Sinclair Davidson and Jason Potts) – https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/Delivery.cfm/SSRN_ID3299734_code2457166.pdf?abstractid=3299734&mirid=1

Blockchains and Constitutional Catallaxy (with Alastair Berg and Mikayla Novak) – https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3295477

From Industry Associations to Ecosystem Associations: Blockchain, Interest Groups and Public Choice (with Mikayla Novak, Jason Potts and Stuart J Thomas) – https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3285647

Outsourcing vertical integration: Distributed ledgers and the V-form organisation (with Sinclair Davidson and Jason Potts) – https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3300506

Crypto Public Choice (with Alastair Berg and Mikayla Novak) – https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3236025

Institutional Discovery and Competition in the Evolution of Blockchain Technology (with Sinclair Davidson and Jason Potts) – https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3220072

Identity as Input to Exchange (with Alastair Berg, Sinclair Davidson and Jason Potts) – https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3171960

Blockchains Evolving: Institutional and Evolutionary Economics Perspectives (with Brendan Markey-Towler, Mikayla Novak, and Jason Potts) – https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3160428

Beyond Money: Cryptocurrencies, Machine-Mediated Transactions and High Frequency Bartering (with Sinclair Davidson and Jason Potts) – https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3158047

Ledgers (with Sinclair Davidson and Jason Potts) – https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3157421

Some public economics of blockchain technology (with Sinclair Davidson and Jason Potts) – https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3132857

Exit, Voice, and Forking (with Alastair Berg) – https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3081291

Blockchains Industrialise Trust (with Sinclair Davidson and Jason Potts) – https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3074070

Populism and Democracy: A Transaction Cost Diagnosis and a Cryptodemocracy Treatment – https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3071930

Delegation and Unbundling in a Crypto-Democracy – https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3001585

International policy coordination for blockchain supply chains (with Darcy Allen, Sinclair Davidson, Mikayla Novak and Jason Potts). Published in Asia & The Pacific Policy Studies, 30 May 2019 – https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/app5.281

Some Economic Consequences of the GDPR (with Darcy Allen, Alastair Berg and Brendan Markey-Towler). Published in Economics Bulletin, Volume 39, Issue 2, pages 785-797; originally a Medium post – http://www.accessecon.com/Pubs/EB/2019/Volume39/EB-19-V39-I2-P77.pdf

Blockchain: An Entangled Political Economy Approach (with Darcy Allen and Mikayla Novak). Published in the Journal of Public Finance and Public Choice – https://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/bup/jpfpc/2018/00000033/00000002/art00001;jsessionid=bqp0b87cp98ej.x-ic-live-02

Imagining the Blockchain Economy (with Sinclair Davidson and Jason Potts). Meanjin, vol. 77, no. 2 (winter) – https://meanjin.com.au/essays/imagining-the-blockchain-economy/

Cryptodemocracy and its institutional possibilities (with Darcy WE Allen and Aaron M Lane). Review of Austrian Economics, 2018 – https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11138-018-0423-6

What Diplomacy in the Ancient Near East Can Tell Us About Blockchain Technology. Published in Ledger (2017), vol. 2, pp. 55-64 – https://ledgerjournal.org/ojs/index.php/ledger/article/view/104/85

Opening statement to House Standing Committee on Tax and Revenue Inquiry into Taxpayer Engagement with the Taxation System (with Sinclair Davidson). October 18, 2017 – http://chrisberg.org/2017/10/opening-statement-to-house-standing-committee-on-tax-and-revenue-inquiry-into-taxpayer-engagement-with-the-taxation-system/

“Facebook’s monetary revolution” (with Sinclair Davidson and Jason Potts), Australian Financial Review, June 20, 2019 – http://chrisberg.org/2019/06/facebooks-monetary-revolution/

“Blockchain and the manufacturing industry” (with Darcy Allen and Jason Potts), June 15, 2019 – http://chrisberg.org/2019/06/blockchain-and-the-manufacturing-industry/

“Why Blockchain Technology Could Be the Key to Solving the Developing World’s Biggest Problems” (with Darcy Allen), May 7, 2019 – http://chrisberg.org/2019/05/why-blockchain-technology-could-be-the-key-to-solving-the-developing-worlds-biggest-problems/

“The use of knowledge in computers: introducing nanoeconomics” (with Sinclair Davidson, Jason Potts and Bill Tulloh), Medium, December 30, 2018 – https://medium.com/@cryptoeconomics/the-use-of-knowledge-in-computers-introducing-nanoeconomics-2a1b7ef5061b

“Should I use a blockchain?” (with Sinclair Davidson and Jason Potts), Medium, November 9, 2018 – https://medium.com/@cryptoeconomics/should-i-use-a-blockchain-63be18834617

“Opportunities for crypto-havens to capture business” (with Sinclair Davidson and Jason Potts), The Cayman Financial Review, October 31, 2018 – http://chrisberg.org/2018/10/opportunities-for-crypto-havens-to-capture-business/

“Blockchains and constitutional catallaxy: an EOS case study” (with Alastair Berg), Medium, September 5, 2018 – https://medium.com/@cryptoeconomics/blockchains-and-constitutional-catallaxy-an-eos-case-study-37936d5f7d67

“The rational crypto-expectations revolution” (with Sinclair Davidson and Jason Potts), Medium, July 19, 2018 – https://medium.com/@cryptoeconomics/the-rational-crypto-expectations-revolution-ee66d191ba39

“Supply Chains on Blockchains” (with Sinclair Davidson and Jason Potts), June 22, 2018 – http://chrisberg.org/2018/06/supply-chains-on-blockchains/

“Blockchain is (now) a competitive industry” (with Sinclair Davidson, Jason Potts and Ellie Rennie), Medium, May 18, 2018 – https://medium.com/cryptoeconomics-australia/blockchain-is-now-a-competitive-industry-e5a1940895e

“Crypto constitutionalism” (with Sinclair Davidson and Jason Potts), Medium, May 16, 2018 – https://medium.com/cryptoeconomics-australia/crypto-constitutionalism-c25d0c503ac

“Outsourcing vertical integration: introducing the V-form network” (with Sinclair Davidson and Jason Potts), Medium, March 27, 2018 – https://medium.com/cryptoeconomics-australia/outsourcing-vertical-integration-introducing-the-v-form-network-78e1aa93a814

“Tradetech and the problem of international coordination” (with Darcy Allen, Sinclair Davidson, Mikayla Novak, and Jason Potts), Medium, March 12, 2018 – https://medium.com/cryptoeconomics-australia/tradetech-and-the-problem-of-international-coordination-a654cb3fc1cc

“KodakOne could be the start of a new kind of intellectual property” (with Sinclair Davidson and Jason Potts), January 12, 2018 – http://chrisberg.org/2018/01/kodakone-could-be-the-start-of-a-new-kind-of-intellectual-property/

“The blockchain economy: what should the government do?” (with Sinclair Davidson and Jason Potts), Medium, November 11, 2017 – https://medium.com/cryptoeconomics-australia/the-blockchain-economy-what-should-the-government-do-c69cbdab7c3c

“Byzantine political economy” (with Sinclair Davidson and Jason Potts), Medium, October 25, 2017 – https://medium.com/cryptoeconomics-australia/byzantine-political-economy-de25bf8f047e

“The problem with Nobel laureate Richard Thaler’s nudgonomics” (with Sinclair Davidson), Australian Financial Review, October 12, 2017 – http://chrisberg.org/2017/10/the-problem-with-nobel-laureate-richard-thalers-nudgonomics/

“The Blockchain Economy: A beginner’s guide to institutional cryptoeconomics” (with Sinclair Davidson and Jason Potts, Medium, September 27, 2017 – https://medium.com/cryptoeconomics-australia/the-blockchain-economy-a-beginners-guide-to-institutional-cryptoeconomics-64bf2f2beec4

“Bitcoin investors should be taxed like any other investor” (with Sinclair Davidson and Jason Potts), September 25, 2017 – http://chrisberg.org/2017/09/bitcoin-investors-should-be-taxed-like-any-other-investor/

“Institutional Cryptoeconomics: A New Model for a New Century” (with Sinclair Davidson and Jason Potts), September 17, 2017 – http://chrisberg.org/2017/09/institutional-cryptoeconomics-a-new-model-for-a-new-century/

“Government must leave encryption alone, or it will endanger blockchain” (with Sinclair Davidson and Jason Potts), Australian Financial Review, July 28, 2017 – http://chrisberg.org/2017/07/government-must-leave-encryption-alone-or-it-will-endanger-blockchain/

“Cryptodemocracy: How Blockchain Can Radically Expand Democratic Choice”(with Darcy WE Allen and Aaron M Lane). Coming soon from Lexington Books – https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781498579636/Cryptodemocracy-How-Blockchain-Can-Radically-Expand-Democratic-Choice

“Understanding the Blockchain Economy: An Introduction to Institutional Cryptoeconomics” (with Sinclair Davidson and Jason Potts). Forthcoming with Edward Elgar Publishing – https://www.e-elgar.com/shop/understanding-the-blockchain-economy

“The Classical Liberal Case for Privacy in a World of Surveillance and Technological Change”. Available from Palgrave Macmillan – https://www.palgrave.com/us/book/9783319965826

“Towards Crypto-friendly Public Policy” (with Sinclair Davidson and Jason Potts). Published in Blockchain Economics: Implications of Distributed Ledgers, World Scientific Publishing, Singapore, pp. 215-232 – https://www.worldscientific.com/doi/abs/10.1142/9781786346391_0011

“Regulation and Technological Change” (with Darcy Allen). Published in Australia’s Red Tape Crisis: The causes and costs of over-regulation, Connor Court Publishing – https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3140921

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Thank you for your interest in joining the Worldwide Blockchain Innovation Association (WBIA) – an association focused on providing you with the best research, information and contacts to ensure that you and your organisation can make the most out of blockchain and the possibilities it provides.

The WBIA works with governments, industry, companies and academics to develop solutions for the changes that blockchain will have on many existing structures and entities.

Our international focus and our combination of research, policy co-ordination and government engagement set us apart from other blockchain organisations.

Membership of the WBIA includes listing in our membership directory and introductions to other members, access to exclusive research, reports and analysis, our regular newsletter, the opportunity to input into policy positions and international engagement, invitations to member only events, and the opportunity to contract research projects from our experts at a discounted membership rate.

The WBIA also offers two other exclusive membership categories; Advisory Council membership and Executive Membership, which are further detailed below.

Membership is also offered at a discounted rate for government bodies, non-profit entities and academics.

These WBIA membership categories allow further input into policy positions through membership of the WBIA Advisory Board, which will hold regular meetings with the WBIA leadership.

Executive membership will also include senior positions on the Advisory Council.

To be eligible for these membership categories, individuals and companies must be recommended by other members of the organisation.

To be eligible to be a member of the Advisory Board, applicants must be supported by either two founding board members, or a founding board member and two existing members of the Advisory Board.

To be an Executive Member, applicants must be either supported by two founding board members, or a founding board member and two existing Executive members.

The opportunity to recommend and support other members of the Advisory board and its Executive, is another benefit of premium WBIA membership.

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