BGIN Sydney - layer 2 meetup and workshop
BGIN Layer 2 Meetup @ Sydney
Bridging Standards, Governance & Technology — Insights from Block 14 Tokyo
Date: Monday, 9 March 2026
Time: 9:30 AM – 1:00 PM AEDT
Venue: The Refectory, Sydney University Business Building
Format: In-person
In collaboration with: Policy Week 2026 (9–13 March, Sydney)
About This Event
Fresh from BGIN Block 14 in Tokyo (1–2 March), this Layer 2 Meetup brings the latest insights from the global blockchain governance community directly to Sydney — just as Policy Week kicks off across the city.
BGIN (Blockchain Governance Initiative Network) creates an open, global, and neutral platform for multi-stakeholder dialogue across regulators, technologists, industry, academia, and civil society. Layer 2 Meetups extend this mission by connecting BGIN's deep standards work with local communities around the world.
This session shares the outcomes of Block 14's working groups, introduces the BGIN AI Agent Hack knowledge framework, and presents the Promise and Trust Graph system — a practical architecture for building verifiable trust relationships across decentralised networks.
Join us to engage with the frontiers of proof of personhood, post-quantum cryptography migration, and blockchain forensics terminology — three of the most pressing challenges at the intersection of technology, governance, and regulation.
Who Should Attend
Regulators and policymakers working on digital asset frameworks
Identity and privacy technologists
Blockchain developers and infrastructure builders
Compliance, legal, and forensics professionals
Academics and researchers in governance, cryptography, and AI
Anyone interested in multi-stakeholder blockchain governance
Programme
Opening — Block 14 in Review (9:30 – 9:50)
Key outcomes from BGIN Block 14 Tokyo, including working group progress across Identity, Key Management & Privacy (IKP), Cybersecurity, Financial Applications & Social Economics (FASE), and the new Agentic AI Working Group. Introduction to the BGIN AI Agent Hack knowledge base and the Promise and Trust Graph system.
Session 1 — Proof of Personhood: Verification in the Age of AI Agents (9:50 – 11:00)
As AI agents become increasingly capable of impersonating human behaviour, proving that a participant is a unique real person — without sacrificing privacy — becomes essential for governance, voting, and trust systems. This session advances the Proof of Personhood working group item through case study presentations from World ID, the First Person Project, and Human.Tech, alongside a new theoretical contribution: the three-graph, one-trajectory model for personhood verification. Participants will evaluate the trade-offs between scalability, privacy, and Sybil resistance across biometric, social graph, and credential-based mechanisms.
Agenda
Proof of Personhood: defining requirements and the agent duality challenge
Case study: World ID — biometric-based personhood at scale
Case study: First Person Project — decentralised personhood credentials and trust graphs
Case study: Human.Tech — human-centric verification perspectives
Presentation: Three graphs, one trajectory — a unified theory of personhood verification (Mitchell Travers)
Privacy considerations and risks across approaches
Integration with self-sovereign identity frameworks
Agent Hack connection: trust tier system and bilateral attestations
Working group item refinement and next steps
Break (11:00 – 11:15)
Session 2 — Post-Quantum Cryptography: Preparing Blockchain for the Transition (11:15 – 12:00)
Preparing blockchain systems for the post-quantum cryptography (PQC) transition. This session examines crypto agility architectures that enable seamless algorithm migration without service disruption, covering NIST PQC standards status, design patterns for agility, and hybrid approaches during the transition period. Participants will review migration strategies for key management, digital signatures, and identity credentials.
Agenda
Quantum threat timeline and implications for blockchain
NIST PQC standards status and selection updates
Crypto agility design patterns for blockchain systems
Migration strategies for existing key management and signature systems
Hybrid approaches during the transition period
Agent Hack connection: key generation algorithm considerations
Coordination with METI blockchain technology competition
Session 3 — Blockchain Forensics vs. Analytics: Toward a Common Lexicon (12:00 – 12:45)
A joint IKP and FASE session developing shared terminology and frameworks for identifying, classifying, and responding to harmful activities on blockchain networks. As regulatory frameworks increasingly reference on-chain investigation, consistent terminology and clear methodological boundaries are essential for cross-jurisdictional coordination and tool interoperability. This session reviews the public comment draft on distinguishing forensics from analytics and works toward a BGIN-endorsed common lexicon.
Agenda
Current fragmentation in terminology across jurisdictions
Proposed taxonomy of harmful on-chain activities
Review of "Distinguishing Blockchain Forensics from Analytics" — public comment draft
Forensics methodologies and tooling landscape
Privacy considerations in forensic analysis
Toward a BGIN-endorsed common lexicon
Next steps for IKP–FASE collaboration
Closing & Networking (12:45 – 1:00)
Wrap-up, working group engagement opportunities, and open networking to carry conversations into Policy Week.
About BGIN
The Blockchain Governance Initiative Network (BGIN) is an open, global, multi-stakeholder platform founded in 2020 to develop common language, best practices, and standards for blockchain governance. BGIN holds Block Conferences globally two to three times per year, supplemented by Layer 2 Meetups that exchange ideas with community hubs around the world.
Learn more: bgin-global.org
About Policy Week
Policy Week 2026 (9–13 March, Sydney) is Australia's most internationally diverse and strategically significant digital asset forum, convened by BlockchainAPAC. Bringing together senior leaders from government, law, finance, technology, and education across 12+ jurisdictions, Policy Week covers regulatory innovation, payments, tokenisation, and enforcement through invitation-only discussions and activations.
Learn more: policyweek.com.au
BGIN Layer 2 Meetups share the deep work of academics, standards bodies, technologists, and regulators with the broader community — bridging global governance insights with local action.