Trust but verify: a missing link between IoT and a trustworthy, computationally verifiable reality

Blockchain has fundamentally changed our relationship with trust. At its core, blockchain networks (and their consensus protocols) provided to us a feat of engineering that seemed impossible just a few years ago. A system can now be computationally proven trustworthy as a whole without every individual entity within that system needing to be fully trusted. Still, so far we mostly dealt with blockchain systems rooted in the virtual reality (crypto currencies, digital identities, smart contracts, etc.). This talk will briefly cover: What is a cyber-physical system and why cyber-physical systems are fundamentally different from systems rooted in virtual reality. Why cyber-physical systems require a hybrid approach to building a trustworthy, digitally verifiable "digital twins" of the physical world they are embedded in. An approach, built around using Delegated Proof-of-Stake (DPOS) Consensus blockchains coupled with trustworthy, fully disaggregated software computational enclaves, allowing for the creation of radically different kinds of oracles. The kinds of oracles that can finally provide to be the missing link connecting blockchain and smart contracts to the trustworthy, computationally verifiable reality and all of its rich information sources.