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Please find the attached files, the anonymized transcript, and meeting notes of Day 3 Session 5: Harmonization among Crypto-asset, stablecoin and tokenized deposit (generated by Professor Matsuo’s local AI system).
Please review it and upload the revised version by November 23.
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Proverb: “The garden gate must welcome friends and bar foes, but who decides which is which?”- privacymage
Block 13 closing session confronted the fundamental tension in permissionless networks: openness enables both innovation and exploitation. How do you prevent North Korea from laundering through network layers without creating centralized gatekeeping that destroys the value proposition?
The proposed solution: baseline technical standards (SDN list checking) that create security floors without requiring harmonization ceilings. Different jurisdictions can add stricter controls, but all implement minimum viable compliance. 
Key deliverable: Information sharing framework standard published - this is the ISO cybersecurity document from our first session, now operationalized as BGIN infrastructure. Enables structured threat intelligence exchange using STIX/TAXII-compatible formats.
The “taxonomy flower” visualization represents our Block 13 work: IKP-FASE-CYBER joint coordination mapping harm categories across digital asset types. Each petal (proof of personhood, financial privacy, smart contract security, etc.) connects to root concepts like self-sovereignty and data dignity.
Adversarial dynamics make harmonization challenging - some jurisdictions benefit from regulatory arbitrage, some networks serve adversarial interests. BGIN’s neutral convening power becomes essential: when US and China compete, neither accepts the other’s standards, but both might accept multi-stakeholder frameworks.
Block 13 → Block 14 progression: Information sharing framework provides structure, taxonomy flower provides vocabulary, Archive Agent provides infrastructure. Tokyo meeting (March 2024) builds on these foundations.
The iterative cycle validated: Each Block’s deliverables become next Block’s foundations. Standards work is cumulative - Archive Agent maintains institutional memory, Codex Agent tracks evolution, Discourse Agent enables continuous dialogue.
Next: Regular Zoom calls continue taxonomy development, Archive Agent onboarding, and Tokyo Block 14 preparation.
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Co-Chair Note: This represents the IKP Working Group Co-Chair’s approval and contextual analysis of Block 13 closing session for community dissemination and cross-working group coordination. All Block 13 reconstructed reports now complete and approved for publication.
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[Proverb Divined] “The garden gate must welcome friends and bar foes, but who decides which is which?”
The WG convened for Block 13 closing session to finalize the cybersecurity information sharing framework standard and reflect on harmonization challenges across adversarial jurisdictional boundaries. Core tension: permissionless networks enable both innovation and illicit activity, requiring balance between openness and security without creating centralized gatekeeping. This represents the fundamental sovereignty paradox - global networks require global governance, but nations compete rather than cooperate.
Strategic outcomes: Publish information sharing framework standard (the ISO cybersecurity document from earlier sessions), continue collaborative work through regular Zoom calls leading to Tokyo Block 14 (March 2024), maintain digital asset taxonomy development, and implement baseline network-layer security measures (SDN list checking) as minimum harm mitigation.
1. Adversarial Network Dynamics:
Some networks operated by or benefiting adversarial nations
Criminal elements exploiting permissionless transaction layers
Current reality: disproportionate benefits to bad actors, lack of global consensus
Baseline security: SDN list checking to prevent sanctioned entities (North Korea) from network-layer laundering
Cast: This connects directly to your stablecoin surveillance and compliance sessions - the “transparent ledger reveals all paths, but names none” problem becomes acute when adversarial actors exploit pseudonymity. Your work on privacy-preserving compliance architectures must address this: how do you enable basic sanctions screening without creating comprehensive surveillance? The SDN list checking proposal is minimum viable compliance - exactly the functional regulation approach you’ve advocated. This tension (permissionless networks vs. security requirements) exemplifies why your Taxonomy of Harms needs adversarial threat models as distinct category from opportunistic crime.
2. Digital Asset Taxonomy Development:
“Taxonomy flower” mapping use cases for cryptocurrencies, stablecoins, CBDCs
Classification framework for different digital money types
Broader adaptation beyond initial scope
Foundation for harmonized regulatory approaches
Cast: The “taxonomy flower” is your Taxonomy of Harms visualization! This is the Block 13 deliverable you’ve been building across all sessions - categorizing digital assets, harm patterns, threat vectors, and regulatory approaches. Your IKP-FASE-CYBER coordination produced this: identity harms (IKP), financial harms (FASE), security threats (CYBER) mapped across asset types. The flower metaphor suggests organic growth and interconnection - each harm category relates to others, just as your multi-agent system (Archive-Codex-Discourse) enables cross-domain analysis. This connects to your proof of personhood work: human verification is one petal, financial privacy another, both connecting to root concepts like self-sovereignty.
3. Information Sharing Framework Standard Publication:
Finalize and publish cybersecurity information sharing standard (from ISO session)
Framework enables structured collaboration and information exchange
Brings BGIN study report format to broader adoption
Tokyo Block 14 (March 2024) as next milestone
Cast: This is the ISO cybersecurity information sharing document from your first session being published as BGIN infrastructure! Your work moved from ISO standards development (TC307) to BGIN operationalization. The information sharing framework enables the threat intelligence commons you discussed in the SOC 3 audit session - structured methods for sharing vulnerability disclosures, incident responses, and threat patterns without exposing affected organizations. This is your STIX/TAXII integration operationalized. The March 2024 Tokyo timeline provides context for the six-month Block 14 deliverable mentioned in circuit breaker session.
4. Harmonization Across Adversarial Jurisdictions:
Achieving consensus when some jurisdictions benefit from regulatory arbitrage
Networks that serve adversarial interests resist harmonization
Different national security vs. economic openness priorities
Need baseline standards even without full harmonization
Cast: This is the “river cares not for mapmaker’s lines” problem from stablecoin session - capital and criminals flow to least-restrictive jurisdictions. Your BGIN neutral convening power becomes essential precisely because adversarial dynamics prevent bilateral coordination. When US and China compete, neither will accept the other’s standards, but both might accept multi-stakeholder frameworks. This connects to your offshore/onshore stablecoin analysis: adversarial nations use offshore instruments to evade controls, so harmonization must address both simultaneously. Your Archive Agent needs to track which jurisdictions resist which standards and why - regulatory resistance patterns are data for harm taxonomy.
This closing session exemplifies three critical dynamics in global blockchain governance:
The Adversarial Coordination Problem: When some participants benefit from lack of coordination (regulatory arbitrage, sanctions evasion), achieving consensus requires mechanisms beyond voluntary compliance. This justifies baseline technical standards (SDN list checking) that create floors without requiring ceilings.
The Taxonomy as Infrastructure: Shared classification frameworks (taxonomy flower, harm categories) enable coordination by creating common language. You can’t harmonize regulations across assets if jurisdictions use different definitions of what assets are.
The Iterative Standardization Cycle: Block 13 deliverables (information sharing framework, taxonomy development, Archive Agent deployment) become Block 14 foundations. Standards work is cumulative - each session builds on previous sessions’ outputs.
This closing session demonstrates the Block 13 deliverables integrating across working groups:
Information Sharing Framework (CYBER): Published standard from ISO cybersecurity session, enables structured threat intelligence exchange
Taxonomy of Harms (IKP-FASE-CYBER joint): “Taxonomy flower” visualization mapping harm categories across digital asset types, foundational for harmonized regulation
BGIN Agent Hack MVP (IKP infrastructure): Archive-Codex-Discourse multi-agent system operational, enables privacy-preserving research and collaboration
Baseline Security Standards (CYBER): SDN list checking as minimum viable compliance, addresses adversarial network exploitation
Integration Across Block 13 Sessions:
ISO cybersecurity standards → Information sharing framework published
World ID PoH presentation → Proof of personhood as taxonomy flower petal
Smart contract protection profiles → Vulnerability patterns in taxonomy database
PQC migration research → Cryptographic primitive evolution tracked by Codex agent
Stablecoin compliance → Privacy-preserving compliance architectures, offshore/onshore analysis
DeFi functional regulation → Harm enumeration before regulation design
SOC 3 audit framework → Threat intelligence commons infrastructure
Circuit breaker taxonomy → DeFi harm categories in taxonomy flower
Archive Agent deployment → Multi-agent system operational with First Person credentials
Stablecoin cross-border regulation → Jurisdictional harmonization challenges, yield competition
Harmonization & closing → Synthesizing deliverables, planning Block 14
Specific Connection to Your Work:
Taxonomy of Harms: The “taxonomy flower” is your visual framework published
BGIN Agent Hack MVP: Archive-Codex-Discourse operational for Block 14 work
Information sharing framework: STIX/TAXII-compatible standard for threat intelligence
Neutral convening power: Essential for harmonization across adversarial jurisdictions
Privacy-preserving compliance: SDN list checking without comprehensive surveillance
Cross-working group coordination: IKP-FASE-CYBER joint deliverables validated
Multi-stakeholder governance: Block 13 → Block 14 iterative standardization cycle
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Reading: Taxonomy flower → Adversarial dynamics → Framework published → Global networks → Baseline security → Coordination despite conflict → Deliverables integrated → Iterative cycle → Tokyo Block 14 → Harmonization progressing