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3 December 2025 12:00 - 13:00

Talk Title: The Role of Third Party Intelligence in Transparent Markets

The promise of public ledgers is that everyone can see everything. But most public data is not usable by most end users. Instead over the last decade this dynamic led to a proliferation of blockchain intelligence tools and services that leverage available data to address a wide variety of use cases. These tools and services now form an essential part of the digital asset ecosystem. Simultaneously, when third parties can access the same information as regulators and law enforcement new supervisory modalities become available. This, in turn, can require new intelligence tooling. In this talk we discuss the variety of roles blockchain intelligence providers can play in transparent markets, explore how transparency enables novel, more efficient market governance mechanisms and provide an overview of the sorts of business models the digital asset ecosystem can support.

Speaker Biography:

Jonathan Reiter works to apply traditional finance and technology tools to new problems. He is best known in the blockchain industry for having discovered flaws in the Binance Beacon Chain and Binance Smart Chain and has a over two decades of experience as a derivatives trader at Barclays, Morgan Stanley, Lehman Brothers and Nomura, where he was formerly an Executive Director in FX Options Trading.

Jonathan holds two Bachelors Degrees from Brown University, one for Computer Science and one for Mathematical Economics, as well as a Masters of Science in Computer Science.

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The Centre for Digital Trust and Society organises the DTS Guest Seminar Series and is a focal point for research across the University of Manchester that explores aspects of trust and security in our digital world. The Centre is part of Digital Futures, a highly interdisciplinary network which operates across the whole range of the University of Manchester's digital research.

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3 December 2025 12:00 - 13:00 Online

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