Onchain Legal Summit :: Devcon India 2026

Entity's third Onchain Legal Summit takes place during Devcon India on November 4, 2026, from 11:00 to 17:00 IST. The Legal & Governance Hub hosts this working summit for founders, lawyers, protocol designers and governance specialists examining the legal status of onchain entities, DAOs, AI agents and autonomous systems.

The announced subjects include:

• How DAO governance and compliance tools fit together, and how legal text can become computable contracts.
• Agent personhood, ERC-8004 and Know Your Agent, including the legal status of autonomous protocols and whether AI agents can hold voting rights in a DAO.
• Decentralized justice and AI arbitration for real-world disputes, and the use of onchain courts to resolve disagreements within DAOs.
• Legal recognition of onchain entities, whether they can operate across borders, and the compliance obligations involved in forming and running them.
• Registry infrastructure and the design of legal entities in Solidity and other programming environments.
• Liability for autonomous code and the use of onchain civil records for marriages, death certificates and notarization.
• How lawyers might express legal processes through APIs.

The India edition also examines online dispute resolution, digital public infrastructure and what national registries can learn from open registries. The organizer has published these themes but has not yet released a detailed agenda or session timetable. Speaker and partnership inquiries can be submitted through the form linked on the event page.

Participation in the summit is free for Devcon 8 attendees. A separate valid Devcon ticket is required to enter the conference venue; registering on Luma or another external site does not provide Devcon admission. The public listing gives Mumbai as the location and requires registration to see the exact event address.