Talks & Panels
Presentations, keynotes, and speaking engagements at conferences, workshops, and events.
Featured Talks
Proof of Backhaul: Verifiable connectivity for Decentralized protocols
March 2023 • Filecoin Summit
Talk on Proof of Backhaul as a mechanism for verifiable bandwidth allocation in decentralized systems, covering integration strategies, audit frameworks, and scalability pathways for adoption. It highlighted the economic and implementation advantages of decentralized verification over traditional centralized bandwidth management, emphasizing how this approach enables fair incentives and sustainable network growth.
Proof of Location: Trusted Observations for the Physical World
February 2025 • Bleeding Edge Summit, ETH Denver
Presented on the critical role of Proof of Location systems in extending blockchain’s trust guarantees into the physical world. The talk drew a parallel between location-stamping and blockchain’s foundational time-stamping, framing geospatial verification as a key to enabling new decentralized applications and economic models. Covered the technical underpinnings of location proofs, real-world applications, and the security and integration challenges involved in making physical presence verifiable on-chain.
All Talks
The Future of Restaking in Blockchain Ecosystems
April 2025 • Web3 HK
Panel on the rise of restaking as a foundational security primitive in blockchain ecosystems, exploring how shared validation across domains can improve capital efficiency and security. The discussion covered protocol design, risk and incentive alignment, and the future of decentralized services powered by restaking. Featured panelists included Sreeram Kannan (Eigenlayer), David Tse (Babylon), Lucas (Renzo), and Dorothy (Altlayer), bringing insights from the forefront of restaking innovation.
Proof of Location: Trusted Observations for the Physical World
February 2025 • Bleeding Edge Summit, ETH Denver
Presented on the critical role of Proof of Location systems in extending blockchain’s trust guarantees into the physical world. The talk drew a parallel between location-stamping and blockchain’s foundational time-stamping, framing geospatial verification as a key to enabling new decentralized applications and economic models. Covered the technical underpinnings of location proofs, real-world applications, and the security and integration challenges involved in making physical presence verifiable on-chain.
Cryptoeconomic Security for Real-World Applications
February 2025 • Coordinated
Podcast on how Eigenlayer and cryptoeconomic security primitives can be extended beyond digital assets to secure real-world applications and infrastructure. Explored how mechanisms like restaking and security pooling can establish trust in hybrid digital-physical systems. The session covered foundational principles of cryptoeconomic design, cross-domain risk assessment, and incentive structures that align economic security with physical-world verification.
Synergy of Global Compute and Proof of Location Watchtowers
December 2024 • Spheron space
Explored how distributed compute networks can power Proof of Location watchtowers, enabling scalable and secure location verification for decentralized applications. The talk outlined the architecture of global verification systems, discussed security models for trusted proof generation, and addressed the latency and reliability trade-offs involved in real-world deployment. Emphasis was placed on the practical strategies and infrastructure requirements to implement these systems at scale.
Physical Trust Systems: Enabling Functional DePINs
November 2024 • We are DePIN
This session explored the role of physical trust systems in enabling Decentralized Physical Infrastructure Networks (DePINs) to operate reliably in the real world. The discussion focused on core verification challenges when bridging blockchain with physical systems, and examined how economic incentives can drive honest infrastructure participation. Included real-world case studies of successful trust frameworks anchoring decentralized coordination to physical actions.
Key Challenges in Physical Infrastructure
September 2024 • DePIN Association Singapore
Participated in a panel exploring the core challenges in implementing and scaling Decentralized Physical Infrastructure Networks (DePINs). The discussion spanned technical barriers in bridging blockchain consensus with physical systems, verification issues across infrastructure types, and the design of sustainable incentive models. Panelists also addressed the evolving regulatory environment and its implications for decentralized infrastructure deployment at scale.
Auditing and Regulating Compute Networks for Enterprise Adoption
September 2024 • ICN space
In this discussion with Kai from Impossible Cloud, we explored strategies for auditing and regulating decentralized compute networks to make them viable for enterprise use. The conversation focused on reconciling traditional IT governance frameworks with decentralized infrastructure, addressing compliance, auditability, and risk management. Key topics included security standards, regulatory alignment, and practical pathways for enterprise adoption of Web3-native compute systems.
Future Directions for DePIN Development
July 2024 • DePIN Day Brussels
Panel at DePIN Day Brussels on the future trajectory of Decentralized Physical Infrastructure Networks, emphasizing next-generation technical advancements and strategies for real-world integration. The talk addressed cross-chain interoperability, region-specific regulatory frameworks—particularly in the EU—and sustainable economic models designed to support long-term infrastructure growth.
Challenges and Opportunities in Decentralized Physical Infrastructure Networks
July 2024 • DePIN conference Brussels
Delivered a talk on the current landscape of Decentralized Physical Infrastructure Networks (DePINs), focusing on both the practical challenges of implementation and the transformative potential of these systems. Discussed the technical and economic hurdles to widespread adoption, emerging applications that rely on trustworthy physical world oracles, and future development paths for DePINs as foundational infrastructure for Web3 and beyond.
Consensus on Physical State: Extending Smart Contracts to the Real World
July 2024 • Blockchain Technology Summit
Talked on how consensus mechanisms can be extended beyond digital state to encompass real-world conditions, forming a foundational layer for smart contracts that interact meaningfully with physical systems. The talk covered technical strategies for achieving verifiable consensus on physical state, tackled the inherent challenges in the digital-physical interface, and outlined practical applications across sectors such as logistics, energy, and connectivity.
Building Financial Instruments on Tokenized Physical Infrastructure
May 2024 • Consensus 202, Austin
Presented a vision for how physical infrastructure can be tokenized by first establishing a robust consensus layer that verifies real-world attributes. The talk examined the technical and economic foundations necessary to represent infrastructure assets on-chain, enabling the creation of novel financial instruments. Topics included mechanisms for real-world asset validation, token design, and the architecture of new economic systems grounded in physical reality.
Consensus on Physical State: A Coordination Mechanism for Infrastructure
May 2024 • DePIN State
This DePIN state podcast discusses how consensus mechanisms for physical state can serve as powerful coordination tools for infrastructure—mirroring the role of blockchains in digital asset networks. The conversation explored the technical hurdles in creating verifiable physical state, and how such systems could unlock new models of infrastructure development, governance, and maintenance across sectors like energy, connectivity, and logistics.
Securing the Digital Frontier: Blockchain-Based Trust Systems
May 2024 • Hack Summit 2024
Participated in a panel focused on how blockchain-based trust frameworks are transforming security at the edge of digital and physical systems. The conversation highlighted the evolution of verification and authentication models in hybrid environments, with a focus on resilience and reliability in critical infrastructure. Featured insights from Google’s Head of Security, as well as founders from Ottersec and DIMO, covering both theoretical frameworks and real-world implementations in smart contract auditing and decentralized hardware networks.
Technical and Practical Challenges in DePINs
April 2024 • Princeton DeCenter Workshop
Joined a panel at Princeton’s DeCenter Workshop to discuss the technical and practical challenges in deploying Decentralized Physical Infrastructure Networks (DePINs). The conversation covered issues from network reliability to hardware verification, highlighting the need for cross-disciplinary solutions. Shared insights on integrating cryptographic proofs with physical infrastructure, navigating security trade-offs, and identifying research opportunities at the intersection of networking and blockchain.
DePIN: Proof of Useful Work
April 2024 • Harvard Blockchain Conference
Spoke on a panel exploring how Decentralized Physical Infrastructure Networks (DePINs) offer an alternative to traditional Proof of Work by validating “node work” grounded in real-world utility. Shared insights on integrating mechanisms like Proof of Location and Proof of Bandwidth with physical infrastructure to unlock new economic models. Joined by leaders from IoTeX, DIMO, Daylight, and EV3, the discussion covered emerging architectures that anchor cryptoeconomic security in verifiable physical actions.
Proof of Backhaul: Verifiable connectivity for Decentralized protocols
March 2023 • Filecoin Summit
Talk on Proof of Backhaul as a mechanism for verifiable bandwidth allocation in decentralized systems, covering integration strategies, audit frameworks, and scalability pathways for adoption. It highlighted the economic and implementation advantages of decentralized verification over traditional centralized bandwidth management, emphasizing how this approach enables fair incentives and sustainable network growth.