What is an onchain entity, legally - and who answers for the agents inside it?

The sitting

A gathering of founders, technologists, legal hackers, academics, and governance architects rethinking the foundations of law and social order in the age of blockchain, AI, and autonomous entities.

The first sitting convened 670 people at Devconnect Buenos Aires. The second sat in Hong Kong. The third lands in Mumbai during Devcon 8 - a working summit, not a showcase: main-stage arguments, panels, and lightning talks at the edge of law and code.

The docket

• § 1
  Agent personhoodAnchoring ERC-8004 agents to subjects of rights, with disclosed human accountability chains.
• § 2
  Law as codeProgrammable constitutions, computable identity, onchain civil records.
• § 3
  Decentralized justiceOnchain arbitration - and AI as arbitrator, juror, and defendant.
• § 4
  Borderless recognitionEntities beyond jurisdiction: Wyoming's DUNA, the Marshall Islands, DAO model laws - and what each actually anchors.
• § 5
  LiabilityWho answers when an autonomous system causes harm.
• § 6
  Credentials without surveillanceIdentity, selective disclosure, and compliant privacy without full public exposure.
• § 7
  Institutions before EthereumWhat India's dispute-resolution and collective-governance traditions - ODR, SEWA, Amul, FPO federations - teach onchain institution-building.

Agenda

Prior sittings