Speaking & policy work

Featured talks

Full speaking history

• Every Tuesday. Community Service Hour
• 2025-06-10 SEC Crypto Task Force meeting
• 2024-07-24 Palo Alto, CA
• 2024-06-08 China
• 2024-04-22 BananaConf Tallinn /
• 2024-04-03 NFT nyc /
• 2024-03-04 Pubcon, Las Vegas
• 2023-11-07 Public comments for IRS Gross Proceeds and Basis Reporting by Brokers and Determination of Amount Realized and Basis for Digital Asset Transactions /
• 2023-07-19 Workshop exclusivo & meet-up con William Entriken /
• 2023-06-24 RClub & ESCE百人ji论坛WEB3&AI人工智能创投专场 /
• 2023-05-09 NFT Tallinn /
• 2023-04-12 DESCI NYC /
• 2022-11-12 Tron Hacker House, Boston, Harvard Campus /
• 2022-10-21 Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia (Private) /
• 2022-06-20 NFT NYC 2022 /
• 2022-04-19 Emerging Technologies for the Enterprise /
• 2022-04-06 NFT Tallinn /
• 2022-03-27 2022宾州华人侨团联盟庆祝农历新年暨领导换届仪式晚宴 /
• 2022-02-18 Google Fireside Chat, William Entriken Guest (Private) /
• 2021-11-30 DCentral Miami /
• 2021-11-01 NFT NYC 2021 /
• 2019-12-16 French Founders
• 2019-04-16 EY Global Blockchain Summit /
• 2019 NFT NYC 2019 /
• 2019 Temple Supply Chain Association
• 2019 Drexel University LeBow Lunch, Lead and Learn
• 2018 Chain 76 Philly
• 2018 Multi-Disciplinary Hands-On Blockchain Workshop Geared for Women
• 2018 Bled Strategic Forum /
• 2018 NIFTY Hong Kong /
• 2018 PayPal Innovation Lab Singapore /
• 2018 Slovenian Blockchain Alliance
• 2018 BCWF Shanghai
• 2018 The North Texas Blockchain Alliance /
• 2018 Dallas Chamber of Commerce

Regulatory & policy work

• SEC Crypto Task Force meeting — sat directly with the new SEC Crypto Task Force to discuss blockchain technology design (2025).
• IRS public comments — public comments for IRS gross proceeds and basis reporting by brokers for digital asset transactions (2023).
• USDA proposing immutable ledger technology for agricultural product source verification (with my client CattleProof). This is a USDA Process Verified Program to verify the source of agricultural products and the first to use distributed ledger technology.

Credentials

• Lead author of ERC-721, the document that started the NFT industry
• Completed over USD 100M of ICOs (technical advisor)
• On the Nightfall team (EY, Ernst & Young)
• Led hands-on developer workshops in US, HK, SG, CN, SI, AR, EE in English and Mandarin
• Helped thousands of artists become millionaires, create USD 1B of commerce per week
• Contributor to Solidity project
• Sponsored by Ethereum Foundation and Microsoft (GitHub Sponsors)
• 100+ podcast episodes of product & industry reviews

Press coverage

• 2025. AG GEO. Blockchain Historical Society. Inception and Impact of ERC-721: A Deep Dive with William Entriken.
• 2025. NYSE Wired. SiliconANGLE theCUBE. Wm Entriken Design | theCUBE + NYSE Wired: Crypto Trailblazers.
• 2024. David Berlind. Blockchain Journal. Lead Author of the NFT Standard Predicts NFTs Will Melt Into The Fabric of Our Everyday Lives.
• 2023. Jesse Hamilton. CoinDesk. Crypto Tax Proposal Open for Revision, IRS Officials' Questions Suggest.
• 2023. Wendy O. The O Show. Breaking FTX SBF has meltdown in court.
• 2023. NatyShi. Platzi blog. ¿Ha llegado el fin de los NFTs?.
• 2023. Dan Tedesco. The Craft. The Craft Podcast Interview with William Entriken.
• 2023. Binance. Binance. NFT&去中心化存储DMC能擦出什么样的火花.
• 2023. DMC Foundation. DMC Foundation. DMC对话NFT之父William.
• 2023. DMC Foundation. DMC Foundation. DMC Dialogue with William (en).
• 2023. Mason Marcobello. CoinDesk. What Are EIP and ERC and How Are They Connected?.
• 2023. NFT Horizon. NFT Horizon. Capabilities of ERC-721, Solve Real Life Problems with NFT.
• 2023. 黑色马里奥. 费城中文广播电视台. 第二届大费城华人元宵春晚—host and performer.
• 2022. 黑色马里奥. 金色财经. 一文盘点以太坊上的NFT底层协议标准.
• 2022. NFT.nyc. NFT.nyc. Celebrating the Contributions of William Entriken on NFT Day — Lead author of the ERC-721 Non-Fungible Token Standard.
• 2022. Holly Shannon. Culture Factor. Lead Author of the NFT or ERC-721 with William Entriken.
• 2022. Sai Charan Paloju. Smart Cherrys Thoughts. Chatting with William Entriken about NFT and Blockchain who is from USA, Philadelphia.
• 2022. ZeroG. Exploring the Vintage NFT Space with ZeroG. Fun interview with William Entriken, founder of Su Squares, lead author of ERC-721 standard.
• 2022. Benjamin Ahmed. Interviews with Leaders in Fintech & Web3. William Entriken, Lead Author of ERC-721 - NFT Standard, Talks to NFT Prodigy Benyamin Ahmed.
• 2022. TRON DAO. Around the Block. #AroundtheBlock: Episode 10 William Entriken & Sydney Xiong #BUIDLing on-chain projects & protocols!.
• 2022. Angela Dalton, Evan Castelli. Culture Meets Crypto with Signum Growth. Lead Author of the ERC-721 Standard.
• 2022. Sonja Sherwood. Drexel Magazine. 40 Under 40: 10th Anniversary.
• 2022. Ian Allison. CoinDesk. Arianee Raises $21M to Bring Luxury NFTs to the Metaverse.
• 2022. 费城聚焦. 春晚节目. 2022大费城全民总动员网络春晚，展现不一样的费城华人。.
• 2022. Constantin Kogan. n/a. The phenomenon of first NFT Protocol - ERC-721.
• 2022. Pooja Ranjan. Ethereum Cat Herders. PEEP an EIP #58: EIP-721: Non-Fungible Token Standard with William Entriken.
• 2022. Qazal. NFT Labs. NFT Labs Talk: Conversation with the Lead Author of ERC-721 Standard William Entriken — The Zooming Out.
• 2021. Qazal. NFT Labs. NFT Labs Talk: ERC-721 Lead Author William Entriken Elaborates NFT and its future applying fields in Pharma — The Zooming In.
• 2021. Diana Dai. Binance Live. What is NFT? How to mint? Why to buy? Meet ERC-721 leader author Wm Entriken.
• 2021. Jonas Kasper Jensen, Michael Juul Rugaard. The Tokenizer. The Standard of Uniqueness.
• 2021. Ben Davis. Artnet. Inside the NFT Rush: Speculators Offer Up the Literal Formula for Success, Plus Other Lessons From ‘Crypto Coachella’.
• 2021. . 奇點財經SFL. 币圈科技大神William：以太坊ERC-721协议如何造就NFT狂潮？.
• 2021. Michael Butler. Technical.ly Philly. This local technologist made Philly the birthplace of the leading NFT standard.
• 2021. Joyce Yip. China Daily. Token of art appreciation.
• 2021. Dawn Kawamoto. TheStreet. Are NFTs a Good Investment?.
• 2021. Matthew Sparkes. New Scientist. NFT developers say cryptocurrencies must tackle their carbon emissions.
• 2021. Joshua Mapperson. Cointelegraph. New report predicts NFTs will explode in popularity during 2021.
• 2021. Brady Dale. CoinDesk. It's an NFT Boom. Do You Know Where Your Digital Art Lives?.
• 2021. Loïc Lesavre, Priam Varin, Dylan Yaga. NIST. NISTIR 8301: Blockchain Networks: Token Design and Management Overview.
• 2020. Breitling. (Press release). Service / Blockchain.
• 2020. Loïc Lesavre, Priam Varin, Peter Mell, Michael Davidson, James Shook. NIST, Computer Security Division. A Taxonomic Approach to Understanding Emerging Blockchain Identity Management Systems.
• 2020. Ikran Dahir. BuzzFeed. This Student And Her Family Became A TikTok Meme After They Filmed Themselves Reacting To Her College Acceptance.
• 2020. Stephane Gosselin. Numerai. Welcome to Erasure 2020.
• 2019. Asano Nyaa. MCHplus. ERC-721開発者, Entriken氏に聞いてみた！.
• 2019. Brian Hickey. Philly Voice. You may have racked up big E-ZPass fines and not even know it.
• 2019. Quinn Myers. MET Magazine. How the Instagram Era Changed Boudoir Photography.
• 2019. EY. . EY to help Blockchain Wine Pte. Ltd. build blockchain platform for wine distributors across Asia and worldwide.
• 2019. Anna Baydakova. Coindesk. Auditor EY Unveils Nightfall, An Ambitious Bid to Bring Business to Ethereum.
• 2019. 罗鸿达. 金色财经. ERC721主作者：撰写协议的过程是对用例更加深入的探讨.
• 2019. Skypiea. 巴比特. 100万美元的成果拱手送人！安永（EY）发布放弃版权的以太坊区块链软件.
• 2019. Jonas Kasper Jensen. The Tokenizer. An exploration of the Non-Fungible Blockchain Ecosystem – report from NFT.NYC.
• 2019. James Canterbury et al.. Pharmaceutical Engineering, Volume 39, Number 1. Blockchain for Pharmaceutical Engineers.
• 2019. Karin Chang. CoinGecko Buzz. William Entriken - The Catalyst Behind ERC-721.
• 2018. Rebecca Campbell. Forbes Contributor. Airbus's A³ Is Hosting A Crypto Fundraiser To Help Senior Dogs.
• 2018. SWTC基金会. 金色财经. ERC721和它定义的NFT.
• 2018. John Gleeson. Farsight Podcast. William Entriken – ERC-721 [Lead] Author and Su Squares Founder.
• 2018. Mish Shedlock. Mish's Global Economic Trend Analysis. Beyond Bitcoin and ICOs: The Future of Blockchain.
• 2018. Matic Tomšič. SiolNET. Kaj si o Sloveniji misli idejni oče ene od najbolj vročih tehnologij ta hip (Bled Strategic Forum).
• 2018. 赵琪. 奇点财经. 与ERC721 首席作者安其文William Entriken探讨下一个区块链应用风口 (NIFTY Hong Kong).
• 2018. Samantha Radocchia. Forbes Contributor. How Non-Fungible Tokens From Physical Collectibles Are Strengthening Asset-Backed Securities.
• 2018. 快讯君. 区块链周刊 (BTWeek). 区块链不仅是技术还是原则，不应该把它概念化 (ERC-721).
• 2018. Rachel-Rose O'Leary. CoinDesk. Silent No More: Ethereum Users Spurn Recovery Code.
• 2018. Christof Windeck. Heise Medien. PC und Notebook senden per JavaScript auf Mittelwelle.
• 2018. Jose Fritz. Arcane Radio Trivia. System Bus Radio.
• 2017. Apple. . Credit to people who have reported potential security issues in Apple's web servers.
• 2017. Sarah Shayne Lim Uy. Equire Philippines. I was drugged with devil's breath and kidnapped in Manila.
• 2017. Roberto Torres. Technically Philly. SEPTA says real-time data on buses, trolleys finally coming to an app.
• 2017. Sonya Mann. Inc.com. A Developer Broke His Decade-Long Silence to Expose This Bank's Cybersecurity Cover-Up.
• 2016. Catalin Cimpanu. Softpedia. System bus radio.
• 2016. Мария Нефёдова. Хакер. Исследователь заставил компьютер без радиопередатчика вещать на радиочастоте (System bus radio).
• 2014. Vince Lattanzio. NBC10 Philadelphia. Frustrated Over Late SEPTA Trains, Software Developer Creates App Proposing Better Schedules.
• 2014. Editor. Metro Magazine. SEPTA rider creates app proposing "better schedules".
• 2014. Sarah Laskow. Grist. This app keeps track of just how late Philadelphia’s trains are running.
• 2014. Susan Bregman. The Transit Wire. SEPTA rider creates app to track on-time performance.
• 2016. timothy. Slashdot front page. Transmission of radio signals from a computer that is otherwise air gapped.
• 2015. Slashdot front page. . Photo Printing Website Artisan State Allows Access To All User-Uploaded Photos.
• 2014. Juliana Reyes. Technically Philly. Why does this data from our troubled Philadelphia Traffic Court cost $11K?.
• 2010. Soffi. 上海交通大学BBS. Upenn三国杀大赛的冠军是美国白人！！！.

Self portraits for media

Extra stuff for stalkers

Personal