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Veridian: The Future of Digital Identity

Join Jeremy Firster and Thomas Mayfield as they discuss Veridian, the Cardano Foundation's innovative digital identity platform. This insightful discussion explores Veridian's future-proof design, including its use of the groundbreaking Key Event Receipt Infrastructure (KERI) and Authentic Chained Data Containers (ACDC) protocols. Learn how the Cardano blockchain acts as a tertiary root of trust, while Veridian's unique pre-rotation key management system and hash-chained key event logs protect against quantum attacks and key compromises.

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Jeremy Firster
Global Enterprise Adoption Lead at Cardano Foundation
Thomas Mayfield
Head of Decentralized Trust and Identity Solutions at Cardano Foundation
Published September 15, 2025 in Podcast
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