Emma Landriault
Head of Labs, Kinexys, J.P. Morgan
Emma Landriault’s documented work concerns the controls and infrastructure required for regulated payment tokens and institutional activity on public blockchains.
Why the room needs them.
Head of Labs at Kinexys and a co-author of MIT DCI and J.P. Morgan research on payment tokens, Emma Landriault focuses on public-blockchain infrastructure for regulated financial institutions.
What Emma believes about the next ten years.
Years of shipping.
Lines that keep proving correct.
“I'm Emma Landriault, head of Labs at Kinexys, which is J.P. Morgan's blockchain business, where I look after our public blockchain efforts.”
“So for institutional users, compliance, so ensuring they're meeting AML obligations, KYC obligations, sanction obligations, finality, both legal finality and a new thing to navigate in this world, technical finality, right? And privacy are three really key drivers for any infrastructure decisions.”
“It's such an exciting time. And I think the key word for those listening is atomicity, right? This idea that assets and cash will move simultaneously and instantly because that will reduce, if not completely remove counterparty risk.”
What they have built, written, and backed.
Built
- Payment-token research and prototypeLandriault co-authored the May 2025 MIT Digital Currency Initiative and Kinexys by J.P. Morgan research on regulated payment-token design. MIT DCI states that the joint team researched and developed a prototype. The companion code is a demonstrator that has not received a security audit and is not production-ready.
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Louvre Abu Dhabi, 3–4 December 2026. Admission is by application, and the room is capped at 2,000.
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