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Building Trust Back into Blockchain

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Building Trust Back into Blockchain

Panel Description

Blockchain technologies have experienced a period of Creative Destruction as fraudsters and opportunists exploited an environment with lots of misaligned economic incentives and lagging regulatory oversight.  Despite the hurdles, blockchain technologies continue to be incredibly disruptive in the market and offer new opportunities in both the public and private sectors.  This session will explore leading blockchain innovation with a specific focus on how it might enable new models for business and governance.

Angela Dalton, CEO and Founder, Signum Growth
David Ackerman, CCO MobileCoin
Mohsan Farid, Co-Founder, LedgerOps

Panelists Biographies

Angela Dalton is the CEO and Founder of Signum Growth Capital.  Angela Dalton has 20 years of experience in global capital markets in the Technology, Media and Telecom sectors and has long term relationships with institutional investors and companies. She has served as a Managing Director for three investment banking firms – UBS, Evercore and Guggenheim Partners, and as Senior Partner of Technology for Signum Global Advisors, a policy advisory firm. At Evercore, Angela participated as an initial investor and Co-Founder of the Equities business in 2010, building out its Research, Sales and Trading teams prior to Evercore’s acquisition of ISI.  Signum Growth Capital is an Advisor to Web3 Foundation and ARK Invest and Angela is on the Advisory Boards of the Wall Street Blockchain Alliance in New York and Mythical Games, a next generation video game company, in Los Angeles.

X: @daltonan | LinkedIn

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David Ackerman is the Chief Compliance Officer at MobileCoin.  David is a global compliance executive, industry influencer, and licensed attorney with 15 years of experience providing operational compliance, AML, gov’t relations, and regulatory guidance to TradFi & Web3 companies, fiduciary advisors, broker-dealers, investment banks, swap dealers, exchanges, technology companies, and major regulatory organizations. David is a recognized compliance and financial regulation expert, published author, and FINRA Arbitrator possessing in-depth knowledge of SEC, FINRA, CFTC, NFA, and FCA regulations, as well as industry best practices globally across the US, EMEA, and APAC.

X: @mobilecoin | David Ackerman at LinkedIn

By or featuring David Ackerman: 

Mohsan Farid, Co-Founder and CEO of LedgerOps.  With over 15 years of experience in cybersecurity, Mohsan has ran the gamut in the security space including auditing smart contracts, pen testing for numerous federal agencies, hacking mobile applications, and speaking at cybersecurity conferences such as Defcon, Sec-T, Black Alps, and others. He’s also provided exploits to the Metasploit framework as well as contributed to several open source projects.

X: @Pwn__Star | LinkedIn

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Additional OODA Loop Resources

Blockchain Security: National Security, Cybersecurity, and Health Security:  The OODA Loop Blockchain Series includes case studies of blockchain security initiatives and cybersecurity incidents.  We tracked down the best-in-class research efforts and subject matter experts to explore how they are “framing and naming” the formative issues around blockchain security, including the national security, cybersecurity, and health security promise and peril.

Innovative Blockchain Technology Case Studies (by Industry Sector):  Over the course of 2022 and 2023, The OODA Loop Blockchain Series has explored blockchain disruption in the market and new opportunities created by blockchain technologies in both the public and private sectors.  Innovative blockchain technology efforts (by industry sector)  – with a focus on how the blockchain enables new business models, opportunities for innovative value proposition design, and decentralized governance – are listed here.  Industry sectors include: The Financial Sector and Monetary System; The Technology Sector (Semiconductor Subsector); The Automotive Sector and the Future of Mobility; and The Bioeconomy, Biotechnology, and Healthcare.

On Trust and Zero Trust: New Paradigms of Trust, Designing Trust into Systems, and Trustworthy AI:  The future of trust is a broad research theme at OODA Loop, overlapping with topics like the future of money (ie. the creation of new value exchange mechanisms, value creation and value storage systems – and the role trust will play in the design of these new monetary systems). Likewise, notions of trust (or lack thereof) will impact the future of Generative AI, AI governance (i.e. Trustworthy AI) and the future of autonomous systems and exponential technologies generally.  This post is a compilation of OODA Loop Original Analysis and OODAcast conversations concerned with trust, zero trust and trustworthy AI.

The Future of the Internet, Trust and Web3: Data and Digital Sovereignty Versus Digital Self-Sovereignty:  Charles Clancy, Chief Futurist at MITRE, and his co-authors of a recent report –  “Democratizing Technology: Web3 and the Future of the Internet” – provide the best framing of a “robust and decentralized, democratized alternative to the existing technology stack” and “the establishment and advancement of alternative technological paradigms to protect the public interest by making authoritarian misuse difficult or impossible.”

For additional OODA Loop News Briefs And Original Analysis on Blockchain Technologies, see  OODA Loop | Blockchain

About Daniel Pereira

Daniel Pereira is research director at OODA. He is a foresight strategist, creative technologist, and an information communication technology (ICT) and digital media researcher with 20+ years of experience directing public/private partnerships and strategic innovation initiatives.