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26 papers
Authenticated Delegation and Authorized AI Agents
Tobin South, Samuele Marro, Thomas Hardjono +5
The rapid deployment of autonomous AI agents creates urgent challenges around authorization, accountability, and access control in digital spaces. New standards are needed to know…
Data Cooperatives for Identity Attestations
Thomas Hardjono, Alex Pentland
Data cooperatives with fiduciary obligations to members provide a useful source of truthful information regarding a given member whose personal data is managed by the cooperative.…
Exploring Web3 From the View of Blockchain
Qin Wang, Rujia Li, Qi Wang +3
Web3 is the most hyped concept from 2020 to date, greatly motivating the prosperity of the Internet of Value and Metaverse. However, no solid evidence stipulates the exact definiti…
From Trade-only to Zero-Value NFTs: The Asset Proxy NFT Paradigm in Web3
Denis Avrilionis, Thomas Hardjono
Many implementations of smart contracts available in NFT marketplaces today allow the modification of NFT token attributes, without any specific mechanism to control the consistenc…
Towards Blockchain-enabled Open Architectures for Scalable Digital Asset Platforms
Denis Avrilionis, Thomas Hardjono
Today there is considerable interest in deploying blockchains and decentralized ledger technology as a means to address the deficiencies of current financial and digital asset infr…
Attestation Infrastructures for Private Wallets
Thomas Hardjono
In this paper we focus on one part of the trust infrastructures needed for the future virtual assets industry, namely the attestation infrastructure related to key management in pr…
Blockchain Gateways, Bridges and Delegated Hash-Locks
Thomas Hardjono
In the current work we discuss the notion of gateways as a means for interoperability across different blockchain systems. We discuss two key principles for the design of gateway n…
Trust Infrastructures for Virtual Asset Service Providers
Thomas Hardjono
Virtual asset service providers (VASPs) currently face a number of challenges, both from the technological and the regulatory perspectives. In the context of virtual asset transfer…
Towards a Contract Service Provider Model for Virtual Assets and VASPs
Thomas Hardjono, Alexander Lipton, Alex Pentland
We introduce the contract service provider (CSP) model as an analog of the successful Internet ISP model. Our exploration is motivated by the need to seek alternative blockchain se…
Proposal for a Comprehensive (Crypto) Asset Taxonomy
Thomas Ankenbrand, Denis Bieri, Roland Cortivo +2
Developments in the distributed ledger technology have led to new types of assets with a broad range of purposes. Although some classification frameworks for common instruments fro…
Confidential Computing for Privacy-Preserving Contact Tracing
David Sturzenegger, Aetienne Sardon, Stefan Deml +1
Contact tracing is paramount to fighting the pandemic but it comes with legitimate privacy concerns. This paper proposes a system enabling both, contact tracing and data privacy. W…
Wallet Attestations for Virtual Asset Service Providers and Crypto-Assets Insurance
Thomas Hardjono, Alexander Lipton, Alex Pentland
The emerging virtual asset service providers (VASP) industry currently faces a number of challenges related to the Travel Rule, notably pertaining to customer personal information,…
An Attestation Architecture for Blockchain Networks
Thomas Hardjono, Ned Smith
If blockchain networks are to become the building blocks of the infrastructure for the future digital economy, then several challenges related to the resiliency and survivability o…
Privacy-Preserving Claims Exchange Networks for Virtual Asset Service Providers
Thomas Hardjono, Alexander Lipton, Alex Pentland
In order for VASPs to fulfill the regulatory requirements from the FATF and the Travel Rule, VASPs need access to truthful information regarding originators, beneficiaries and othe…
Empowering Artists, Songwriters & Musicians in a Data Cooperative through Blockchains and Smart Contracts
Thomas Hardjono, Alex Pentland
Over the last decade there has been a continuing decline in social trust on the part of individuals with regards to the handling and fair use of personal data, digital assets and o…
Towards an Open and Scalable Music Metadata Layer
Thomas Hardjono, George Howard, Eric Scace +8
One of the significant issues in the music supply chain today is the lack of consistent, complete and authoritative information or metadata regarding the creation of a given musica…
Towards a Public Key Management Framework for Virtual Assets and Virtual Asset Service Providers
Thomas Hardjono, Alexander Lipton, Alex Pentland
The recent FATF Recommendations defines virtual assets and virtual assets service providers (VASP), and requires under the Travel Rule that originating VASPs obtain and hold requir…
A Federated Authorization Framework for Distributed Personal Data and Digital Identity
Thomas Hardjono
The digital identity problem is a complex one in large part because it involves personal data, the algorithms which compute reputations on the data and the management of the identi…
Data Cooperatives: Towards a Foundation for Decentralized Personal Data Management
Thomas Hardjono, Alex Pentland
Data cooperatives with fiduciary obligations to members provide a promising direction for the empowerment of individuals through their own personal data. A data cooperative can man…
Decentralized Trusted Computing Base for Blockchain Infrastructure Security
Thomas Hardjono, Ned Smith
There is a growing interest today in blockchain technology as a possible foundation for the future global financial ecosystem. However, in order for this future financial ecosystem…
Secure and secret cooperation in robotic swarms
Eduardo Castelló Ferrer, Thomas Hardjono, Alex 'Sandy' Pentland +1
The importance of swarm robotics systems in both academic research and real-world applications is steadily increasing. However, to reach widespread adoption, new models that ensure…
Verifiable Anonymous Identities and Access Control in Permissioned Blockchains
Thomas Hardjono, Alex Pentland
In this paper we address the issue of identity and access control within shared permissioned blockchains. We propose the ChainAchor system that provides anonymous but verifiable id…
Genie: A Secure, Transparent Sharing and Services Platform for Genetic and Health Data
Shifa Zhang, Anne Kim, Dianbo Liu +10
Artificial Intelligence (AI) incorporating genetic and medical information have been applied in disease risk prediction, unveiling disease mechanism, and advancing therapeutics. Ho…
Towards a Design Philosophy for Interoperable Blockchain Systems
Thomas Hardjono, Alexander Lipton, Alex Pentland
In this paper we discuss a design philosophy for interoperable blockchain systems, using the design philosophy of the Internet architecture as the basis to identify key design prin…