The Blockchain Innovation Hub at RMIT is hanging in the balance as discussions about its future and whether it should be shut down have started.
An Australian university’s blockchain research institute is facing an uncertain future despite a blistering crypto market rally, with one professor claiming on X it has been “shut down.”
“The first econ and social science blockchain research center was shut down by RMIT,” RMIT Blockchain Innovation Hub member Professor Ellie Rennie said in a Nov. 22 X post, adding there was “no clear reason” why.
But, the institute’s co-director, Professor Jason Potts — also Rennie’s husband — told Cointelegraph that it’s a “fluid situation” that is “still in discussion” and “no decision” had been made on whether it would be shut down.
