Christopher Allen has been involved with cryptocurrency for 26 years, going back to working with DigiCash in the early 1990s and is an online security pioneer and former Blockstream standards and identity practice specialist. Christopher is perhaps best known as the co-author of IETF TLS Internet-draft, which underpins much of the existing e-commerce security on the web. He is also the co-founder of Consensus Development, which in the late 1980s helped Netscape develop SSL, a widely-used communications security protocol. He is the co-founder of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) and working group for decentralized identity (DID) solutions. He has launched a series of smart custody workshops that invite key ecosystem participants to share and learn the latest in technical and regulatory custody considerations.