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Lumino, lightening up the world of secure multi-party computation
New digital era, new demand of security
With the advent of the era of big data, the leakage and abuse of personal privacy data are common, which not only disturbs the normal market order, but also seriously restricts the innovation and development of the digital economy. In recent years, many countries have carried out relevant legislation of digital economy and data governance, which makes the legal requirements of personal privacy data more rigorous, and the supervision system is becoming increasingly strict. The various online scenarios led by the Covid-19 not only bring convenience to our life, but also cause a lot of security demand of data protection
Therefore, the data producers, such as government agencies, operators, platforms, are constantly raising the legal standards of storage, transmission and transaction. It has brought a problem to the data owners: how can fully utilize the data resource endowment to create business profits and social value, meanwhile ensure that the data privacy is protected in accordance with supervision provisions? The real demand behind the problem is bound to give birth to new technologies. The combination of blockchain and secure multi-party computation provides a new solution for breaking the “data island”, ensuring data security and releasing data value.
Recently, as the leader in the global blockchain industry, PlatON has started a new journey in the construction of privacy computation infrastructure, launching the secure multi-party computation ceremony—— Lumino. Lumino aims to create system parameters in a decentralized way, which could help build a real community-based, open-source blockchain ecosystem and ensure the underlying security of the main network and the reliability of future digital applications.
The “chemical reaction” of blockchain and secure multi-party computation
To understand the essence of Lumino, we need to understand the blockchain and secure multi-party computation. Blockchain is a technical solution that does not rely on a third party and a network that stores, verifies, transmits and communicates through its own distributed nodes. The core problems it solves are network decentralization, data consistency and tamper-prevent. Secure multi-party computation is to solve the problem of privacy protection among a group of mutual distrusted participants. It should ensure the independence, correctness decentralization and do not disclose the data to other participants. Secure multi-party computation was firstly proposed by professor Yao Qizhi, who is a Chinese computer scientist and the winner of Turing prize. Since 2010, the development of executable general compiler makes its concept gradually well-known.
It can be seen that both blockchain and multi-party security computation are technologies dealing with data interaction between a group of participants according to specific rules. However, blockchain is mainly used to verify the correctness of the calculation, and the purpose is to achieve the consistent recognition of the results and prevent the results from being tampered with; the purpose of secure multi-party computation (MPC) is to get specific results in the case of data confidentiality, and emphasis on privacy protection in data share situation.
When secure multi-party computation encounters blockchain, the integration has become a technology trend that attracts much attention. Due to the different traits of blockchain and multi-party security computation, they are not exclusive and can complement each other. Blockchain can improve its ability of data confidentiality by using secure multi-party computation to adapt to complex environments; while secure multi-party computation can complete redundant computation with the help of blockchain to obtain verifiable and unique results.
The combination of MPC and blockchain is ultimately to meet the more complex and changeable real needs, especially for various environments of data exchange and sharing. For example, secure multi-party computation can realize key management in the blockchain wallet, and divide the management right of assets reasonably to reduce the risk of single key loss. It can also realize the cross-domain access of EHR data. Based on personal digital identity infrastructure, hospital A could apply for data access to hospital B by obtaining the patient’s authorization, which does not need directly return the patient’s medical record data. It would meet the dual goals of diagnosis needs and privacy protection.
New practice in privacy protection——PlatON & Lumino
Secure multi-party computation is essentially a solution for data security. It is consisted of cryptographic technologies such as obfuscation circuit, secret sharing, homomorphic encryption, etc. PlatON has already realized the layout in these fileds. The key to secure multi-party computation is to use zero knowledge proof to prove that there is no leakage, which is also the key to Lumino.
Most of the existing efficient zero-knowledge proof algorithms need to create system parameters in a centralized way, so the third party who creates the parameters may forge proofs to destroy the underlying security of the main network. Lumino aims to generate the system parameters of the zero-knowledge proof through secure multi-party computation. In this process, the parameters are generated by members altogether, so they will not be obtained or tampered by a single party. This also constitutes the cornerstone of the subsequent privacy protection application. Only when the activity held safely, the subsequent decentralized application will be more secure.
This ceremony is PlatON’s latest practice in the field of privacy protection, and Lumino’s goal is to link the world’s cryptographic geeks to build a global privacy computation infrastructure. In the future community-based and open-source blockchain ecosystem, every participant is an important node, and every participation will make the underlying network more secure. Therefore, this is not only an activity, but also a collective wisdom full of ritual sense. PlatON will also take this opportunity to realize the vision of building infrastructure in the digital era, and make every effort to be the best practitioner in the field of privacy security.
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Austin Glenn Smith Adds His Voice to the Industry Conversation on Client-First Financial Consulting
Drawing on three decades in institutional finance, the consultant argues the profession is shifting from products to principles
United States, 18th Jun 2026 — As the financial advisory profession reexamines how it serves clients, veteran consultant Austin Glenn Smith, Ph.D., is lending an experienced voice to the conversation, arguing that the industry’s center of gravity is moving away from products and toward principles.
Smith, who spent more than 30 years in senior fund and portfolio management before opening a private consulting practice in 2026, has become an advocate for a model built on judgment, transparency, and long-term thinking. His perspective is shaped by decades spent inside institutions where, he says, discipline was not optional.
“The conversation in our industry is shifting from products to principles, and that is exactly where it should be,” said Smith. “Clients are asking better questions, and they deserve better answers.”
Smith contends that the next era of financial consulting will be defined less by access to information, now abundant, and more by the ability to interpret it. “Experience outweighs execution when the market gets difficult,” he said. “Anyone can transact. Fewer people can tell you what actually matters.”
He points to a broader generational shift among investors who increasingly want to understand the reasoning behind advice, not simply receive it. That demand, Smith argues, rewards consultants who lead with education and accountability and challenges those who rely on opacity. “Trust is built in daylight,” he said. “The more a client understands, the stronger the relationship becomes.”
Born in Oslo and educated across the United States, Germany, Scotland, and Australia, Smith held senior roles with the Vanguard Management Group and Expert Edge Investments over a career that carried him between the United States and Canada. He now advises a select group of private clients, and uses his platform to encourage peers toward a more client-first standard.
“None of this is complicated, but it is demanding,” Smith said. “Putting the client first in every decision is a discipline, and it is the one I think defines the future of this profession.” He says he intends to keep contributing to the dialogue, in client work and in the wider industry, as financial consulting continues to evolve.
More information is available at austinglennsmith.com.
About Austin Glenn Smith
Austin Glenn Smith, Ph.D., is a financial consultant and former senior fund and portfolio manager with more than 30 years of experience in institutional investment and portfolio strategy. Born in Oslo, Norway, and educated across the United States, Germany, Scotland, and Australia, he held senior roles with the Vanguard Management Group and Expert Edge Investments before transitioning, in 2026, to private financial consulting. He advises a select group of clients across the United States and Canada on portfolio strategy, retirement, and wealth planning. Learn more at austinglennsmith.com.
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Austin Glenn Smith Champions Financial Literacy, Crediting Early Mentorship for a Career Built on Education
The financial consultant says understanding, not products, is the foundation of lasting wealth, a conviction shaped early by his work alongside investor Robert Kiyosaki
United States, 18th Jun 2026 — Financial consultant Austin Glenn Smith, Ph.D., has spent three decades around money, markets, and institutional portfolios. Ask him what changes a client’s financial life most, however, and the answer is not a product or a forecast. It is understanding.
Smith has made financial education and coaching a defining pillar of his consulting practice, working to ensure clients grasp the reasoning behind every recommendation rather than simply following it. He traces the conviction to the start of his career in the early 1990s, when he worked alongside renowned author and investor Robert Kiyosaki.
“Early in my career I learned that financial education changes outcomes more than any single investment,” said Smith. “That lesson never left me.”
For Smith, literacy is not an add-on to good advice; it is what makes good advice durable. “The most valuable thing I can give a client is understanding,” he said. “A plan you don’t understand is a plan you won’t keep.”
In practice, that means walking clients through the “why” behind portfolio decisions, the trade-offs in a retirement strategy, and the role of risk in a long-term plan, building the financial confidence that turns sound plans into lasting habits. Smith argues that this approach is especially important in an information-saturated environment, where investors are flooded with tips, headlines, and products but starved of context.
“There has never been more financial information and never been more financial confusion,” he said. “My job is often to remove noise, not add to it.”
Smith holds a Master’s degree from Robert Gordon University in Aberdeen and a Ph.D. completed in Australia, and spent more than 30 years in senior fund and portfolio management roles, including with the Vanguard Management Group and Expert Edge Investments. In 2026 he transitioned to private financial consulting, advising a select group of clients across the United States and Canada.
He frames education as the most honest form of value a consultant can offer. “When a client understands their own plan, the relationship changes,” Smith said. “They are no longer depending on me; they are partnering with me. That is the goal.”
More information is available at austinglennsmith.com.
About Austin Glenn Smith
Austin Glenn Smith, Ph.D., is a financial consultant and former senior fund and portfolio manager with more than 30 years of experience in institutional investment and portfolio strategy. Born in Oslo, Norway, and educated across the United States, Germany, Scotland, and Australia, he held senior roles with the Vanguard Management Group and Expert Edge Investments before transitioning, in 2026, to private financial consulting. He advises a select group of clients across the United States and Canada on portfolio strategy, retirement, and wealth planning. Learn more at austinglennsmith.com.
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Discipline Over Prediction: Austin Glenn Smith Outlines a Long-Term Framework for Navigating Volatile Markets
The veteran portfolio manager turned consultant argues that process and risk management, not forecasting, protect and grow wealth
United States, 18th Jun 2026 — As investors contend with persistent uncertainty, financial consultant Austin Glenn Smith, Ph.D., is making a case that runs counter to much of the market’s daily noise: the path to durable wealth is not better prediction, but better discipline.
Drawing on more than 30 years managing institutional portfolios, Smith outlines a framework built on three principles he has applied across multiple market cycles: discipline, long-term perspective, and rigorous risk management. The approach, he says, is designed to perform not because it anticipates the next move, but because it does not depend on doing so.
“Discipline outlasts prediction,” said Smith. “Nobody reliably forecasts the next quarter, but anyone can build a structure that survives many of them.”
At the center of the framework is a redefinition of risk. Rather than treating volatility as something to be avoided, Smith treats it as something to be managed and, where appropriate, used. “Risk is not the enemy,” he said. “Unmanaged risk is.”
In practice, that means diversified, risk-aware portfolios aligned to a client’s time horizon rather than to headlines; decisions driven by fundamentals and process rather than fear or hype; and strategies built for where a client wants to be in decades, not where the market sits today. Smith describes the discipline as deceptively simple and difficult to sustain. “Consistency compounds,” he said. “The hard part is staying consistent when the noise is loudest.”
Smith spent three decades in senior fund and portfolio management roles, including with the Vanguard Management Group and Expert Edge Investments, before transitioning in 2026 to private financial consulting. He now advises a select group of clients across the United States and Canada, applying the same institutional framework at an individual scale.
He is candid that the approach is not built for those seeking quick wins. “Wealth is a marathon, not a trade,” Smith said. “My job is to keep clients running their own race, not someone else’s.” For investors willing to think in decades rather than days, he argues, discipline is not a constraint but an advantage, one that becomes more valuable precisely when markets are at their most volatile.
More information is available at austinglennsmith.com.
About Austin Glenn Smith
Austin Glenn Smith, Ph.D., is a financial consultant and former senior fund and portfolio manager with more than 30 years of experience in institutional investment and portfolio strategy. Born in Oslo, Norway, and educated across the United States, Germany, Scotland, and Australia, he held senior roles with the Vanguard Management Group and Expert Edge Investments before transitioning, in 2026, to private financial consulting. He advises a select group of clients across the United States and Canada on portfolio strategy, retirement, and wealth planning. Learn more at austinglennsmith.com.
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Austin Glenn Smith Adds His Voice to the Industry Conversation on Client-First Financial Consulting
Austin Glenn Smith Champions Financial Literacy, Crediting Early Mentorship for a Career Built on Education
Discipline Over Prediction: Austin Glenn Smith Outlines a Long-Term Framework for Navigating Volatile Markets
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