Quant and MIT have partnered to host a number of Industry days to discuss the impact of Digital Assets and the need for an interoperability protocol to prepare financial institutions and clients for a system that encompasses digital assets with traditional finance.

Embedded in the IETF - Internet Engineering Task Force, Open Digital Asset Protocol (ODAP) is being designed to complement existing financial systems and enable the use and integration of interoperable digital assets.

Find out about the latest cross-industry work to make interoperable digital assets a reality, enabling cross-border transactions through new digital asset products and solutions. Be able to participate and provide insight and use cases to develop a digital asset protocol and meet the needs for your institution and clients.

AGENDA

• Welcome and Introductions – Gilbert Verdian, CEO, Quant – 5 mins

• History and Intro to ODAP – Gilbert Verdian CEO, Quant – 10 mins

• Work to Date and Vision for an Interoperability Architecture for DLT Gateways – Thomas Hardjono, MIT – 10 mins

• Digital Asset Interoperability, What Does It Mean for Financial Services – Martin Hargreaves CPO, Quant – 10 mins

• Financial Services Involvement and Need – Gilbert Verdian CEO, Quant – 10 min

• Questions & Answers

With the increasing interest in the potential use of blockchain

systems for virtual assets, there is a need for these assets to have

mobility across blockchain systems. An interoperability architecture

for blockchain systems is needed in order to permit the secure flow

of virtual assets between blockchain systems, satisfying the

properties of transfer atomicity, consistency and durability. The

architecture must recognize that there are different blockchain

systems, and that the interior constructs in these blockchains maybe

incompatible with one another. Gateway nodes perform the transfer of

virtual assets between blockchain systems while masking the

complexity of the interior constructs of the blockchain that they

represent.