2025-06-13 –, Main Stage - Cinema 10
An often overlooked element of securing your digital assets is determining how paranoid you should be. Many times users go down rabbit holes of complicated schemes to backup and protect their wallets which ultimately causes complications when they need to access them. However, there are situations where you may be in a position of power or public identification that you need to go deeper. Do you need to secure your assets like Vitalik does or like my Mom does?
This presentation covers how to choose the right methods and tools to protect your crypto wallets. Everyone, from an average user, a trader, or a multi-sig signer on a fat treasury, can benefit from this talk.
We will go over why it's important to not overcomplicate your security posture while still making sure you have the necessary tools to keep your assets safe from hackers.
Topics include: threat assessment, personal threat profile, operational security, crypto inheritance planning, wallet backup schemes, wallet browser extensions, hardware wallets.
Hudson Jameson is a long time presence in the Ethereum community who has played a variety of roles at the Ethereum Foundation, Zcash, SEAL, Flashbots, and Polygon Labs. In the early years of Ethereum he was responsible for restarting the EIP repo & starting the Eth core developer meetings/coordinating all network upgrades from 2016-2021. He enjoys cookies and cream ice cream, his spouse, and his cats. He is currently at Polygon Labs helping develop a strong, fun protocol dev community while being a silly goose on Farcaster and X.