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Last week @Ledger N3XT — our education program across college campuses — went to Cambridge. Honestly one of the most inspiring parts was just spending time with students who are thinking this deeply and rigorously about identity, ownership, AI, privacy, and the infrastructure being built underneath all of it. 800 years of academic history, two days of conversations about digital identity, consent, and trust. We started with a fireside chat and Q&A. The students came prepared. One Masters student asked whether Ledger is evolving from securing assets into infrastructure for human identity — and whether that future protects choice or concentrates control. Not a casual question. A CS student pushed on quantum risk, identity, and why hardware matters at all in an increasingly AI-native world. His point was essentially: if intelligence becomes abundant and synthetic agents become indistinguishable from humans online, software alone stops being enough. At some point you need a physical root of trust tied to consent, identity, and verification in the real world. Then he moved to privacy: send someone £2 for coffee on-chain and they can potentially see everything you own. Those questions earned him a Ledger device. Most of the room got close. Dinner at The Cambridge Union turned into conversations about decentralised infrastructure for interplanetary settlement, synthetic identity verification, and agentic systems. Less “future of tech” panel talk, more people actively trying to work through the implications. The next day we toured Trinity’s Great Hall, the Wren Library, Newton’s apple tree. What stayed with me wasn’t the history so much as the continuity of the questions. How people establish truth. Authority. Consent. Ownership. We met with professors and students and started laying groundwork for deeper collaboration. Cambridge has a habit of stress testing ideas until they either collapse or sharpen. That’s useful. We’ll be back. ledger.com/blog-ledger-n3…