Talks & press.
Recordings below; a third-person bio for organizers at the end.I speak about entity registries, trust-neutral institutions, and what proof-of-work taught me about the price of honesty.
IUpcoming
- 2026-11-03 Devcon 8—Mumbai.
IIRecent
- 2026-06-16Claude Community Summit—Forest City.
- 2026-06-10SuperAI—Singapore.
- 2026-05-10muShanghai—Shanghai.
- 2026-02Entity Legal Summit II·Consensus HK—Hong Kong.
- 2025-09 → 2026-03Network School—Forest City, six months. Robotics Lab Lead; coached BJJ, mixology, and acroyoga.
- 2025-11ZK Real World Summit·Devconnect—Buenos Aires.
- 2025-10Edge City—Patagonia.
- 2025-04TOKEN2049—Dubai.
- 2024-11Devcon 7—Bangkok.
- 2018Consensus—New York City.
- 2018Devcon IV—Prague.
IIIRecordings
A playlist of ten talks lives on YouTube.Playlist “Husam”, channel @HusamABBOUD: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLNGeXRd0dDqc-VVA6sa4-UhnV4B4Pc8mL. All embeds load as lazy facades, nocookie. Four of them, and one interview, below.
Also in the playlist: Blockchain for International Conflict Resolutionsyoutube.com/watch?v=8dBWf5TOPQ8, plus two more FECAP lectures from the GenesisBlock years. and the RegistryChain demos from Edge City Lanna.Two demo recordings: WwEhcvbRlXA and bX7AcK10rgM.
IVMedia
- Investopedia—on the ETC attack economics, 2018.
- Cointelegraph—twice, 2018–2019.
- The Next Web—2018.
- Bitcoin.com—2018.
- CryptoBriefing—2018.
- ANBA—on Establish Brazil, 2016.
VFor organizers
Husam Abboud is the founder of Entity.ID, a universal identification system for human and non-human entities. His 2018 research on proof-of-work attack economics was covered by Investopedia, Cointelegraph, and The Next Web, and anticipated the January 2019 attack on Ethereum Classic. Syrian-Brazilian, based in San Francisco.