VALIDATION
Tide's research has been cited by the OECD and the UK Competition and Markets Authority, peer-reviewed by tier-one universities, and presented at leading academic and industry forums in security and cryptography.
POLICY & RESEARCH
Tide is referenced in flagship reports of the OECD, the UK Competition and Markets Authority, and independent academic legal scholarship.
2019 · OECD flagship report
The OECD's flagship business and finance outlook cites Tide as a trust-enhancing technology that limits access to consumer data through encryption and lets individuals control how it is shared. The report returns to the Tide example when discussing trust-enhancing innovations regulators should avoid hampering. Source: OECD (PDF)
2020 · UK CMA
The CMA positions Tide as a decentralised alternative to centralised Personal Information Management Services: the data controller retains the data while the consumer holds permission tothe cryptographic key, managing one-time access. Source: UK Government (PDF)
2019 · UK CMA
The CMA discusses Tide alongside Solid as serious technical architectures for making personal data excludable, letting consumers lock their data, unlock it with a key, and optionally receive compensation if they choose to permit access. Source: UK Government (PDF)
2020 · OECD Competition Committee
The OECD's competition policy paper cites Tide under new approaches to data ownership and control, alongside data trusts and data unions, as an example of user-controlled data governance that could help consumers capture more value and create credible competitive pressure on incumbent platforms. Source: OECD (PDF)
2018 · OECD Competition Committee
An early OECD paper on how digital zero-price markets should be assessed beyond price, covering privacy, data security and consumer choice, cites Tide as a practical example of a decentralized technology giving consumers control over encrypted personal information and enabling paid, consent-based data access. Source: OECD (PDF)
2020 · Pike and Capobianco (OECD)
A competition and antitrust analysis by two OECD economists describes Tide as an example of decentralized technology enabling users to store data and limit access to parties that pay for it, potentially breaking the zero-price data model that protects large digital platforms from entry. Source: SSRN (PDF)
2021 · Oxford legal scholarship
An Oxford academic article on EU abuse-of-dominance law cites Tide as a privacy-enhancing technology that encrypts consumer personal information so users can only be targeted with advertisements if they consent and are paid. Source: Oxford ORA
ACADEMIC & INDUSTRY VENUES
Tide's team and research collaborators are invited to present at leading academic and industry forums in security, cryptography, identity and competition policy.
2024 · Sydney
Co-founders Michael Loewy and Yuval Hertzog delivered the keynote at the Zero Trust Architecture workshop of ACM SIGCOMM, the flagship annual conference of the ACM Special Interest Group on Data Communication and one of the most prestigious academic networking and communications venues in the world. Source: SIGCOMM ZTA workshop program
2020 · OECD
At the OECD's leading international policy forum, co-founder Michael Loewy joined a high-level panel with Nadia Filali (Caisse des Dépôts), Limor Shmerling Magazanik (Israel Tech Policy Institute), David Treat (Accenture) and Pindar Wong (Verifi). The forum's speaker roster included OECD Secretary-General Ángel Gurría, French Secretary of State Cédric O, BIS Innovation Hub head Benoît Cœuré, Sveriges Riksbank First Deputy Governor Cecilia Skingsley and Estonia's Government CIO Siim Sikkut. Sources: OECD session page · OECD speakers list
2023 · Deakin University, Melbourne
Co-founder Michael Loewy was a keynote at the Deakin Cyber Conference, hosted by Deakin University's Centre for Cyber Security Research and Innovation, alongside keynotes from Madeline Shepherd, Min Livanidis, Ambassador Brendan Dowling and A/Prof Vanessa Teague. Sources: Conference announcement · Post-event wrap
2024 · AISA Cybercon, Melbourne
Co-founder Michael Loewy presented in the Emerging Technologies theme at AISA Cybercon, the flagship annual conference of the Australian Information Security Association, Australia's largest cybersecurity member body. Source: AISA Cybercon speaker page
2023 · ACNS CIMSS Workshop, Kyoto
A peer-reviewed paper at the CIMSS workshop of the 21st International Conference on Applied Cryptography and Network Security, co-authored by Tide co-founders with researchers at Deakin University and Griffith University, introducing PRISM, a decentralised threshold cryptographic engine for zero-trust authentication. Sources: Springer LNCS chapter · Deakin Research Online · ACNS 2023 program
2021 · 65th AustMS, University of Newcastle
Two Tide × RMIT papers were presented in the Cryptography session at the Australian Mathematical Society's 65th Annual Meeting: Threshold Ed25519 Digital Signatures and Swarm Random Number Generator for use in secret sharing. Source: AustMS 2021 booklet (PDF)
2022 · ANU National Security College × DSTG, Canberra
Hosted by the ANU National Security College Futures Hub in partnership with the Defence Science and Technology Group, the Technology Surprise Forum selected up to 15 proposals from a national call for papers on emerging technologies relevant to national security. Selected reports were funded. Tide's paper, Decentralised Authority for Identity and Access Management, was presented at the Canberra forum. Sources: DSTG call for papers (PDF) · RMIT CCSRI announcement
2023 · Tide × RMIT preprint
The foundational research paper on Tide's ineffable cryptography, co-authored by Joanne Hall, Yuval Hertzog, Michael Loewy, Matthew Skerritt, Dominique Valladolid and Geetika Verma. Subsequently presented at multiple academic and industry venues. Source: arXiv:2309.00915
2024 · 21st International Conference on Privacy, Security and Trust, Sydney
Co-founder Michael Loewy joined the Industry Summit panel on GDPR and avoiding mistakes in data privacy regulation at PST 2024, an IEEE-co-sponsored international conference in its 21st year. Source: PST 2024 program
2025 · Sydney
Co-founder Michael Loewy presented "How I Solved... the catastrophic threat of a compromised admin with Ineffable Cryptography" at the Sydney Identity, Authentication & Access Management Summit. Source: Summit agenda
2026 · RMIT University, Melbourne
Tide engineer Sasha Le delivered a keynote at the launch of the RMIT AWS Cloud Innovation Lab (RAIL), the first dedicated AWS Cloud Innovation Lab at an Australian university. Co-founder Yuval Hertzog attended among RMIT, AWS and ACCC dignitaries. Sources: RMIT announcement · iTWire coverage
2023 · Blockchain Governance Initiative Network, Sydney
Co-founder Yuval Hertzog joined the wallet and MPC roundtable at the Blockchain Governance Initiative Network's first global meeting in Australia, alongside Daniel Goldscheider, Angela Clark, Masato Yamanaka and Mitchell Travers. Source: BGIN session recording
2024 · 2020Partners
A strategic industry gathering tied to the AUKUS security partnership between Australia, the UK and the US, hosted with the Australian Strategic Policy Institute. Co-founder Michael Loewy spoke alongside Beth Sanner, former US Deputy Director of National Intelligence for Mission Integration and daily intelligence briefer to the President, and Paddy McGuinness, former UK Deputy National Security Advisor for Intelligence, Security and Resilience. Source: KBI.Media on-site interview
2020 · Australian Research Council
Tide is a named industry partner on an Australian Research Council Linkage Project on "Enabling Anonymity and Privacy for Blockchain Technology in a Quantum World," led by Professor Willy Susilo at the University of Wollongong with quantum-cryptography researchers at UNSW. The project received $199,857 in ARC funding. Sources: UoW announcement · UNSW researcher post
2021 · Tech23 Deeptech Festival
Co-founder Michael Loewy was the Circle Leader and moderator of the Tech23 Impact Circle on cybersecurity, convening Dr Stephenie Andal (Cyber Security CRC), Tony Aramze (CISO, RMIT), Casey Ellis (Bugcrowd) and Peter Soulsby (NTT). Sources: Tech23 past circles · Session recording
2020 · Tech23 Deeptech Festival
Co-founder Michael Loewy contributed to the Tech23 Impact Circle on building cyber resilience in small and medium enterprises, with Matt Salier (RMIT Activator) as Circle Leader and contributions from Jacqui Loustau (AWSN), Walkiria Perez (AustCyber) and Matt Warren (RMIT CCSRI). Sources: Tech23 past circles · Session recording
2019 · SXSW, Austin TX
Tide appeared on a SXSW panel on real-world applications of decentralization alongside Karen Kilroy (Kilroy Blockchain) and Todd Little (Oracle), at one of the world's largest technology and culture festivals, coinciding with Tide's data marketplace launch. Source: SXSW session page
AWARDS & COMPETITIONS
Independent recognition from industry awards programs and global startup competitions.
2024 · Winner
Tide Foundation won the Cybersecurity category at the InnovationAus Awards for Excellence, widely regarded as Australia's premier recognition program for deep-tech pioneers, research innovators and technology startups, for its flagship TideCloak product. Sources: InnovationAus winners · InnovationAus feature · NSW Parliament notice (PDF)
2021 · Winner
Tide Foundation won Cyber Security Start Up of the Year at the awards run by Australia's peak professional body for information security (11,500+ members), recognising organisations under five years old with a unique cyber security product innovation. The judging panel included nbn's Darren Kane, Bugcrowd's Casey Ellis and TenEleven Ventures' Kaiti Delaney. Sources: AISA winners announcement · AISA Annual Report 2022 (PDF) · CyRise feature
2020 · Winner
Tide Foundation was named winner of the Innovation Excellence Award at Tech23, a long-running Australian deeptech festival spotlighting the nation's most promising game-changing ventures. Tech23 alumni include Airwallex, Kaggle (acquired by Google) and Smart Sparrow (acquired by Pearson). Sources: Tech23 2020 prizes · Tech23 company profile
2021 · Grand Prize Winner
Tide Foundation won the Grand Prize at InsurTech NY's global early-stage competition, judged by industry and investor panels. More than 120 eligible startups applied. Sources: InsurTech NY announcement · PRNewswire · Carrier Management
2020 · Winner
Tide Foundation was named Best Emerging InsurTech at the InsurTech Hartford Innovation Challenge, the headline US insurtech innovation program for early-stage technology entrants. Sources: Hartford Business Journal · Tide announcement · Event program
2021 · Finalist
Tide was selected as a Finalist, one of just 20 companies worldwide, to compete in TechCrunch Disrupt's 2021 Startup Battlefield, the flagship pitch competition that previously surfaced Dropbox, Cloudflare and Discord, at one of the largest startup events in the world. Sources: TechCrunch Battlefield profile · Battlefield announcement · TechCrunch feature on Tide
2022 · Finalist
Tide Foundation was named a 2022 Global Finalist in the Enabling category at the Extreme Tech Challenge, described as the world's largest startup competition for entrepreneurs addressing global challenges. Source: XTC finalist profile
2021 · Finalist
Tide Foundation was featured as a 2021 Asia Pacific Challenge finalist at Hello Tomorrow, a global deep-tech organisation and challenge platform, for its work redefining the trust paradigm of cybersecurity and privacy. Source: Hello Tomorrow finalist feature
ACADEMIC FOOTPRINT
Independent university news pages, research repositories and academic publishers that reference Tide's work.
Manifesting Unobtainable Secrets, the foundational Tide × RMIT cryptography paper.
PRISM paper in the ACNS 2023 satellite workshops proceedings.
DOI record for the PRISM paper.
Aussie tech breakthrough to protect critical infrastructure from cyber attacks.
Tide × RMIT featured at the Technology Surprise Forum.
KeyleSSH student project integrating Tide with SSH.
Deakin researchers prove Tide's tech breakthrough into zero-trust cybersecurity.
PRISM paper record in Deakin's institutional repository.
PRISM paper record in Griffith's institutional repository.
ARC Linkage Project with Tide on post-quantum blockchain anonymity and privacy.
Exploitative Data Harvesting as Article 102 TFEU Violation, citing Tide.
65th Annual Meeting hosting both Tide × RMIT cryptography talks.
Official program listing the PRISM paper in the CIMSS workshop.
"The only thing more secure than Tide is if we disconnected from the internet."
Tony Aramze
CISO, RMIT University