OpenMatter Network’s Head of Operations and Partnerships, Chris Biele, will lead sessions on secure scientific collaboration, agentic AI, and the shift from trust-based computing to cryptographic proof at Belgrade Blockchain Week 2026.
As part of its ongoing mission to promote the transition from assumption-based trust to cryptographic verification, OpenMatter Network today announced that Chris Biele, Head of Operations and Partnerships, will play a key role at Belgrade Blockchain Week 2026. Biele will lead sessions examining the growing need for secure scientific collaboration, agentic AI, and cryptographic validation architectures.
Biele’s participation follows the recent commercial launch of the OpenMatter Network platform and the company’s collaboration with Hashgraph Online (HOL) and the Decentralized AI Agent Alliance (DAIAA). Together, these initiatives are helping advance standards for cryptographically verifiable AI agent execution and support OpenMatter Network’s broader mission to make verification a fundamental requirement for next-generation computing.
Renee Davis, CEO and co-founder of OpenMatter Network, said: “Equally important is our commitment to helping businesses, researchers, technology leaders, and standards bodies understand why validation matters. As AI becomes more autonomous and organizations increasingly rely on systems they do not fully control, we can no longer simply trust those systems to work correctly. We have to be able to prove it.”
On August 25, Biele will lead OpenMatter Network’s main session during Moonstruck DeSci Day. The session will explore how cryptographic verification and privacy-preserving computing can enable researchers and organizations to collaborate without exposing sensitive underlying data.
Biele will introduce OpenMatter Network’s approach to masked computing, multiparty computation, zero-knowledge proofs, and post-quantum infrastructure. The presentation will also include a live demonstration of a verified computing job using OpenMatter Network’s DataVizor platform.
The session will conclude with a fireside discussion addressing a question with implications far beyond scientific research: Can cryptographic proofs replace trust when organizations need to collaborate using information that cannot be safely shared?
“Some of the world’s most valuable information remains stranded because organizations have good reasons not to release it,” Biele said. “Cryptographic verification offers a way to change this. If organizations can work together to compute protected information without revealing the data itself, we can remove one of the greatest barriers to scientific research, innovation, and collaboration.”
On August 26, Biele will deliver a 20-minute keynote at ETH Belgrade titled “Don’t Trust, Prove: Building the Post-Quantum Verification Layer for Agentic AI.” His presentation will examine why traditional security approaches become less effective as autonomous AI agents make decisions and take action at machine speed.
Biele will argue that natural-language policies, runtime guardrails, and post-incident audits are no longer sufficient on their own. Organizations also need cryptographic verification to prove that calculations were performed correctly and that established policies were followed.
The keynote will explore how multiparty computation, zero-knowledge proofs, and post-quantum cryptography can enable AI systems to process protected information while proving compliance without exposing the underlying data. Potential applications include multi-hospital research studies that protect patient information, autonomous fraud detection supported by mathematical compliance proofs, and deterministic policy enforcement for critical infrastructure.
Together, the two presentations emphasize the same fundamental principle: As AI agents become more autonomous and operate across systems that organizations cannot fully control, cryptographic verification will need to become part of the underlying computing architecture.
Biele will also discuss OpenMatter Network’s standards work with DAIAA and Hashgraph Online, including the company’s leadership of the Cryptographic Agent Execution Standards Working Group. The initiative aims to establish a common framework for validating how autonomous AI agents execute instructions and comply with established policies.
“Verification cannot just be an OpenMatter idea,” Davis said. “If we want a more secure computing environment where organizations and AI systems can work together with confidence, validation must be understood and embraced across the industry. That is why shared standards and conversations like the one taking place in Belgrade are so important.”
For more information, please visit: www.openmatter.network.
About OpenMatter Network
OpenMatter Network, headquartered on Florida’s Space Coast, is developing a secure collaboration and verifiable trust layer for AI agents. Based on the principle “Don’t trust your data, prove it,” the company’s cryptographically verifiable architecture supports secure collaboration, controlled AI behavior, and mathematically verifiable execution across untrusted environments. For more information, please visit www.openmatter.network.
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