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Cardano Developer Input | Output and Hedera Join the DeRec Alliance as Final Founding Members, Alongside Algorand Foundation, Hashgraph, Ripple, and XRPL Labs

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DLT Science Foundation, Hashpack, Oasis Protocol Foundation, and Palisade also join ecosystem-wide initiative to bolster security and trust in the web3 industry

LAS VEGAS, Sept. 5, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — Research and engineering company & Cardano developer Input | Output, and Hedera, the open source, leaderless proof-of-stake network, have joined Algorand Foundation, Hashgraph (formerly Swirlds Labs), Ripple, and XRPL Labs, as the final Founding Members of the Decentralized Recovery (DeRec) Alliance, with two-year seats on the Technical Oversight Committee (TOC). DLT Science Foundation, Hashpack, Oasis Protocol Foundation, and Palisade have also joined as Alliance members, to advance the DeRec Alliance’s mission of creating an interoperability recovery standard to facilitate the widespread adoption of crypto and other assets.

Charles Hoskinson, Cardano founder and Input | Output CEO, said: “We’re delighted to be joining the DeRec Alliance to help contribute to this important new cross-platform protocol. Input Output has always been committed to open-source principles, cross-industry collaboration and blockchain interoperability. As an industry seeking to drive wider adoption, we should all be committed to the relentless pursuit of security, accessibility, and improving the user experience. We’re excited to be joining with other industry leaders to collaborate on this initiative to develop and drive common standards for our space and new utility for web3 users.”

Web3 users currently navigate complex processes to safeguard their digital assets, accounts, keys, and passwords, requiring a high level of technical expertise. Launched in January 2024 by Hedera Co-Founder Dr. Leemon Baird, along with leaders from the Hedera and Algorand ecosystems, the DeRec Alliance introduces a new open-source, industry-standard protocol for simplifying and securing digital asset recovery. DeRec provides solutions for protecting various types of data, including keys for any blockchain or ledger, passwords, photos, notes, identity credentials, and cryptographic keys. By addressing the intricate technical challenges hindering Web3 adoption, the DeRec Alliance aims to unite leading organizations in creating user-friendly, accessible experiences for everyone.

“We are happy to welcome the new members to the DeRec Alliance. Their combined expertise and insight will be a great asset to the Alliance,” said Dr. Baird. “It’s exciting to see the industry collaborating across so many ecosystems, to provide the decentralized recovery that the world so desperately needs.”

“Web3 and crypto promised to decentralize and make accessible the systems that matter most. That power comes with a significant responsibility to safeguard your private keys. Web3 has fallen short in delivering a great UX for securing and recovering key material,” said John Woods, CTO of the Algorand Foundation. “We co-founded the DeRec Alliance as part of our mission to improve the UX for the entire ecosystem, from regular users to developers, delivering a better, more accessible, and more secure experience for all. Streamlined key recovery is vital, as is further decentralization of other important infrastructures.”

Founding Members take on a leadership role in oversight and governance. Input | Output and Hedera will hold two-year terms on the Technical Oversight Committee (TOC), offering critical input on the Alliance’s governance structure and core policies. Their leadership ensures that the Alliance maintains its strategic focus and effectively addresses the needs of its growing community.

Charles Adkins, President of Hedera, commented: “From the very beginning, Hedera has been at the forefront of digital asset security. The DeRec Alliance takes this one step further by introducing an open-source protocol that simplifies asset recovery, aligning closely with our mission to enable a new era of trust and transparency. We are proud to join this alliance and make asset protection more accessible and user-friendly.”

Alliance Members play a crucial role in shaping the DeRec Alliance’s direction by providing policy input and overseeing the development of DeRec-based solutions. They nominate candidates for and vote in Technical Oversight Committee (TOC) elections. Members also engage in quarterly meetings and contribute to policy discussions for TOC voting. Additionally, they represent a diverse range of organizations that adopt DeRec Alliance standards and best practices, facilitating decentralized recovery and ensuring its accessibility to a broad user base. Alliance members joining the DeRec Alliance include:

Dr. Paolo Tasca, Founder and Chairman, DLT Science Foundation, said: “Managing digital asset secrets can be cumbersome and risky for users. DeRec revolutionizes this by utilizing a secret-sharing protocol with trusted helpers, ensuring secure and reliable recovery. We at DLT Science Foundation are proud to have co-developed this protocol, which eliminates single points of failure, providing both security and peace of mind.”

May Chan, CEO at HashPack, said: “As the leading non-custodial wallet on Hedera, HashPack is honored to be part of this innovation in key management technology. DeRec has the potential to solve many of the issues users face around managing and recovering their accounts, and we’re excited to one day be able to bring these features to our users.”

Jernej Kos, Director of Oasis Protocol Foundation, said: “Since its inception, the Oasis Protocol Foundation has aimed to enhance the sophistication and user experience of web 3 DApps. For the industry to achieve true adoption, DApps must match web 2 counterparts in flexibility, confidentiality, performance, and user experience. A major challenge has been private key management and recovery, which remains relatively unexplored. Our unified mission is to remove this long-standing friction point and make web 3 more accessible to everyone.”

Tom Kiddle, Co-founder at Palisade, said: “Joining the DeRec Alliance as the first regulated custodian is a critical step for us at Palisade, signaling to the industry that we are passionate about safeguarding assets and private keys—not just for our clients, but across the entire ecosystem. We firmly believe that the future of Web3 hinges on providing users with reliable and secure mechanisms for key recovery. By contributing our expertise in private key management and wallet infrastructure alongside other members of the DeRec alliance, we are helping to prepare Web3 for mass adoption.”

The Protocol
The Decentralized Recovery (DeRec) open-source protocol is a standard approach to secret management, based on secret sharing among a set of helpers (e.g. friends or businesses), who can assist the user in recovering their secret when needed. Each helper’s share reveals no information about the original secret, and half the helpers can give the user their shares to reconstruct the secret, even when a user has lost their phone or other two-factor recovery device. The protocol includes automatic regular confirmations that helpers still have shares of secrets, and automatic re-sharing when secrets change or helpers join or leave. The user never reveals who the helpers are, nor even how many helpers there are, and even the helpers won’t know that.

Organizations interested in joining the DeRec Alliance, or in adopting technology that leverages the DeRec Alliance protocol can visit https://derecalliance.org/.

About The DeRec Alliance
The DeRec Alliance is a group of forward-thinking companies from across the Web2 and Web3 ecosystems that are committed to making the process of securing and recovering digital assets, accounts, and other secrets as simple as existing Web2 experiences. Leveraging a new open source standard, these organizations are working together to help their users and the broader world realize the promise of Web3, without the complexity. For more information, visit https://derecalliance.org/.

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Black Kite and Sayari Partner to Deliver Integrated Intelligence Across Cyber, Supply Chain, and Corporate Risk

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New integration combines global corporate transparency with continuous cyber risk intelligence to help organizations uncover hidden threats across their extended enterprise

BOSTON and WASHINGTON, April 29, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Black Kite, the leader in third-party cyber risk management, today announced a strategic partnership and integration with Sayari, a leading provider of global corporate transparency and supply chain risk intelligence. Together, the two companies are enabling organizations to gain a unified view of third-party risk by combining deep visibility into global corporate and trade networks with continuous cyber risk monitoring.

As organizations face increasing pressure to manage risk across complex, global supply chains, many struggle with fragmented data spread across multiple tools and teams. This partnership addresses that challenge by bringing together Sayari’s unmatched insight into corporate ownership, trade activity, and hidden commercial relationships with Black Kite’s objective, standards-based cyber risk ratings and real-time threat intelligence.

Through the integration, customers can enrich third-party risk assessments with both who an entity is connected to and how exposed they are from a cyber perspective—providing a more complete and actionable understanding of risk across the extended enterprise.

“Risk doesn’t exist in silos—but most tools still do,” said Bob Maley, Chief Security Officer at Black Kite. “By combining Sayari’s global network intelligence with Black Kite’s continuous cyber risk insights, we’re helping organizations move from fragmented signals to a connected, operational view of third-party risk.”

Sayari’s platform delivers visibility into complex commercial relationships using one of the world’s largest collections of corporate and trade data, spanning over 250 jurisdictions worldwide. By integrating this intelligence directly into Black Kite’s platform, customers can more easily identify hidden ownership structures, upstream supply chain dependencies, and potential exposure to financial crime or geopolitical risk—while simultaneously assessing cyber posture.

“Understanding risk today requires more than a single lens,” said Owen Denby, General Counsel at Sayari. “This partnership brings together two critical dimensions of risk—corporate network transparency and cyber exposure—so organizations can make faster, more confident decisions in an increasingly complex global environment.”

The combined solution supports a wide range of use cases, including:

Enhanced due diligence through enriched corporate ownership and cyber risk insightsSupply chain risk management with visibility into N-tier suppliers and their vulnerabilitiesFinancial crime and compliance by correlating beneficial ownership with cyber postureGovernment and national security applications requiring both transparency and cyber resilienceM&A and third-party onboarding with faster, more comprehensive risk assessments

By reducing manual research and connecting previously siloed data, the Black Kite and Sayari integration enables organizations to prioritize risk more effectively, accelerate investigations, and strengthen resilience across their third-party ecosystem.

The partnership reflects a shared commitment to helping organizations navigate the growing complexity of global risk with greater clarity, speed, and confidence.

Bob and Owen did a webinar together in April: From Fragmented Signals to Connected Risk Intelligence, available to watch on-demand.

About Black Kite

Black Kite is the AI-native third-party cyber risk management platform trusted by over 3,000 customers to manage every supplier and every risk across their extended ecosystem. Powered by the industry’s highest-quality risk intelligence, spanning over 40 million companies, Black Kite is differentiated by the accuracy, transparency, and actionability of its data. The platform automates vendor monitoring and risk assessments, surfacing reliable insights into ransomware susceptibility, regulatory gaps, financial exposure, and more. With Black Kite, security and risk teams gain always-on visibility and trusted intelligence to act early, reduce exposure, and stay ahead of third-party threats. Black Kite has received numerous industry awards and recognition from customers. Learn more at www.blackkite.com, or on the Black Kite blog.

About Sayari

Sayari is the leader in Agentic Systems of Work for economic security and risk. Powered by the Sayari Commercial World Model – a digital twin of global commerce resolving 10.6B+ primary-source records from 250+ jurisdictions – Sayari transforms risk and investigative teams from manual data gatherers into decisive mission leaders. By unifying corporate ownership, trade data, and risk intelligence into a single graph, Sayari uncovers connections and typologies that legacy watchlist, adverse media, and point solutions miss, enabling prescriptive execution at scale. Trusted by the world’s most demanding regulators, including U.S. Customs and Border Protection, the U.S. Treasury, and Fortune 500 enterprises, Sayari delivers the evidence-based transparency needed to prove decisions, satisfy regulators and protect global commerce. Headquartered in Washington, D.C., Sayari is used by thousands of professionals across 35+ countries to secure supply chains and dismantle illicit networks. To learn more, visit sayari.com.

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Chronograph Expands Middle East and Asia Presence With Hire of Former Abu Dhabi Investment Council Technology Leader

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NEW YORK, April 29, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Chronograph, leading provider of portfolio monitoring solutions for institutional private equity limited partners and general partners, today announced the hiring of Benjamin Humphrey-Gaskin as Client Development Director based in the United Arab Emirates.

Benjamin joins Chronograph from the Abu Dhabi Investment Council (ADIC), where he served as Head of Investment Technology for nine years. In that role, he led end-to-end ownership of a multi-asset investment technology portfolio spanning front, middle, and back office systems. Prior to ADIC, he was a Senior Manager at EY advising sovereign institutions and asset managers on technology and operating models, and earlier served as a Senior Business Analyst at eFront delivering customized private equity solutions.

This expansion of the Client Development team in the Middle East reflects Chronograph’s continued growth across the region. With 5 of the 10 largest LPs in the world and 8 of the 10 largest GPs leveraging Chronograph, the solution is increasingly selected by the world’s most sophisticated private capital investors – including sovereign wealth funds navigating complex portfolios.

Benjamin commented, “I am delighted to be joining Chronograph at such a pivotal moment. This is a company I have followed closely for many years, watching its reputation grow from strength to strength. Investors in the region are demanding best-in-class systems, and the ability to truly understand their portfolios and access the highest quality data is one of the foremost challenges they are looking to solve. Chronograph is perfectly positioned to meet exactly that need. I look forward to helping build the firm’s presence and driving real impact for clients.”

Michael Santos, Global Head of Sales at Chronograph, added, “Benjamin is exactly the kind of leader we need as we deepen our presence in the Middle East and Asia. His experience deploying investment technology at one of the world’s most sophisticated sovereign wealth funds gives him a rare understanding of the challenges institutional investors in the region face. He’s spent his career advising CIOs, CTOs, and COOs on private capital technology transformation and he knows what it takes to turn portfolio data into actionable insight at institutional scale.”

About Chronograph

Chronograph was founded in 2016 to bring differentiated technology solutions to private capital markets. The firm’s products help institutional limited partners and general partners – including many of the world’s largest private equity and private credit investors – streamline and automate portfolio monitoring, valuations, analytics, and reporting. The firm is backed by Summit Partners, The Carlyle Group, and Nasdaq, Inc. For further information, please visit: www.chronograph.pe

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Command Zero Accelerates SecOps Pipelines with APIs and MCP Server

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New endpoints let Security Operations teams build their own tools and embed autonomous investigations into existing pipelines.

AUSTIN, Texas, April 29, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Command Zero today released a broad set of API endpoints and a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server for its Autonomous & AI-Assisted SOC platform. Customers can now drive threat hunts, investigations, manage business context, and trigger remediation programmatically by connecting to Command Zero’s LLM-based agents.

“With aggressive growth in the availability of agentic SecOps capabilities, security leaders and architects are at an architectural juncture – facing a decision to either adopt agentic feature sets being added to existing security tools and platforms, or to instead invest in net-new autonomous SOC platforms – further increasing complexity to an already overwhelming SecOps tools environment. Command Zero is solving this architectural challenge, adding APIs and MCP server access to powerful autonomous investigation capabilities that can be woven into existing tools, workflows, and UI.”
— Dave Gruber, Principal Analyst, Cybersecurity, Omdia

SOCs consist of dozens of separate tools and need seamless connectivity between tools to overcome complexity. With API endpoints and MCP servers, customers can wire the Command Zero platform into their SOAR playbooks, orchestration pipelines, and internal tooling without waiting on vendor roadmaps. Technical alliance partners can build integrations in minutes.

“Opening Command Zero’s advanced investigation engine to developers changes what’s possible. Teams can now use advanced capabilities of the platform as the substrate for custom threat hunting frameworks, CTI-driven analysis, and bespoke tooling. The MCP server extends that to AI agents — which matters as agentic SecOps moves from pitch decks to day-to-day practice.”
— Richard Stiennon, Chief Research Analyst at IT-Harvest

What’s in the release

Investigation APIs. List, start, extend, update, and retrieve investigations against any investigation template.Business context APIs. List, upload, and retrieve context at scale. Pull data in from ServiceNow, CTEM platforms, HR systems, and other sources — no manual console entry.Catalog and schema APIs. Query entity types, data sources, and investigation templates to align external systems with the platform’s data model.Remediation APIs. List remediation templates and execute remediation actions from external systems.MCP server. A wrapper around the APIs that lets Claude and other MCP-compatible agents query Command Zero directly. Analysts can run health checks, list investigations, triage open cases, and build custom dashboards from an AI chat interface.

What customers can build

SOAR playbooks that start a Command Zero investigation the moment an alert fires, then feed upstream response data back into the case as it develops.Custom threat hunting frameworks that ingest threat intelligence, generate hypotheses, deploy them as questions in Command Zero, and run autonomous hunts on a schedule.Internal SOC dashboards built in Claude that summarize weekly activity, automation rates, and open investigations in natural language.MSSPs syncing client business context across tenants automatically, instead of populating each environment by hand.

“The best security platforms are the ones teams can build on. This release puts Command Zero’s investigation engine in the hands of our customers and our technical alliance partners. They can wire us into their pipelines, extend us with their own flows, and connect us to the AI agents working collaboratively with their analysts. That is how a platform earns its place in the SOC. These APIs and MCP servers unlock a new class of joint solutions with our partners.”
— Dov Yoran, Co-founder and CEO, Command Zero

What’s next

The current release covers the core surface customers need to start building. More API endpoints will follow, shaped by anchor customers’ and partners’ feedback. Command Zero will also publish sample integrations and reference implementations in the weeks following the launch.

About Command Zero

Command Zero is the Autonomous & AI-Assisted SOC platform, built to transform security operations in complex enterprise environments. The platform accelerates threat hunting, triage, analysis and response. Command Zero enables all users to perform at the highest level by ensuring consistent, repeatable, auditable investigations with automated reporting.

Command Zero was named a Top 10 Finalist in the 2025 RSA Innovation Sandbox and serves some of the largest organizations in the world. The company is headquartered in Austin, TX with presence in Calgary Alberta, Canada.

Learn more at https://www.commandzero.ai and follow the Command Zero LinkedIn page.

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