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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.

Participants
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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