2024 Thomas Hardjono talk
by Chris Tham
tags: seminar - lunchThomas Hardjono returned to Australia after nearly 20 years. His group at MIT has an on-going project with the Gov of South Australia and some the universities there. His trip was in the context of this project.
- https://www.premier.sa.gov.au/media-releases/news-items/mit-host-adelaide-workshops
- https://dti.sa.gov.au/mit-adelaide-living-lab
He gave a talk at a seminar in University of Sydney titled Decentralized Asset Registries.
Abstract:
The recent EU regulation on Markets in Crypto Assets Regulation (MiCA), represents a significant progress in establishing a multi-jurisdiction framework for crypt-assets that will enable the greater participation of costumers in the digital assets industry. One type of token recognized by MiCA are the asset-referenced tokens (ART). How asset-referenced tokens will be implemented by the digital assets industry remains to be seen. However, we believe there is a fundamental requirement for metadata information supporting the ART tokens to be readily available for the consumers of this type of tokens. In this presentation we discuss a decentralized registries model that links the ART token with the authoritative for asset metadata information.
Bio:
Dr Thomas Hardjono is the CTO of the Connection Science & Engineering group at MIT. He is an early pioneer in the field of digital identities and trusted hardware, and instrumental in the development and broad adoption of the MIT Kerberos authentication protocol. His activities include leading innovative startups and bridging these through standardization efforts in across several industry forums, including the IETF, the IEEE, Trusted Computing Group, Confidential Computing Alliance and others. Thomas has published over 80 technical conference/journal papers, several books and over 30 patents. Current areas of interest include L1 Interoperability, Tokenized Assets, Web3 Decentralized Infrastructures, and Cyber-Resilient Protocols.
Michael Barr-David and I attended the seminar and we also met Greg Ryan and Alan Fekete there. Afterwards we had lunch at The Forum. It was really good catching up with Thomas after all these years and we had a great conversation over lunch on many topics.
