Two days ago, a flight heading from Corfu to Nuremberg triggered a hijack response after a radio malfunction sent an emergency code. Fighter jets were scrambled. Nuremberg Airport briefly suspended operations. The aircraft landed safely, and the airline later said there had been no actual emergency. The detail that matters here is that authorities couldn’t reach the cockpit when the alert came in. They had a signal, but they didn’t have enough information to dismiss it. I think there’s a lesson in that for the future of payments, too. As stablecoins, on-chain transfers and AI-driven transactions become more common, money will move across systems with less direct human involvement. But a transaction going through doesn’t tell us everything about how it was initiated, who authorised it or who is responsible. That’s part of what makes @Concordium joining @Mastercard Crypto Partner Program meaningful. Mastercard brings together companies working on how digital assets and payment systems can operate in the real world. Concordium brings verified identity into those discussions, addressing the question of who stands behind an action without making private identity information public. We often talk about making payments faster and easier. We should also be thinking about what happens when a transaction needs to be checked, questioned or traced back to its source. In aviation, a signal can set an entire safety process in motion. In payments, an automated transaction can have real consequences, too. We won’t always have a person sitting there making every decision. But we should still have a reliable way to establish who authorised the action. That’s the part of the payment infrastructure worth getting right before we need it.