The Digital Finance Cooperative Research Centre (DFCRC)’s mission is to unlock the $24 billion per year economic potential of digital finance innovation for Australia by bringing together industry, government and research.

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The global financial system has reached a pivotal juncture. We are witnessing a once-in-a-generation transformation where Digital Finance is moving beyond a peripheral innovation – it is becoming a foundational layer of the global financial system. Digital Finance innovation refers to the application of technologies and practices that transform how assets trade and financial services are delivered.

Digital Finance innovation enables better markets, better payments and better assets.

Central to this is tokenisation, which stores digital representations of assets called tokens on distributed ledgers.

Australia’s Digital Finance innovation economic gain potential

$24 billion per year (approx. 1% of GDP) plus downstream economic effects likely to exceed this baseline – DFCRC research report

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