How Taha Abbasi’s OmniChain Liquidity Solves Web3’s $2.5M Multi-Chain Problem

In the world of decentralized finance, liquidity fragmentation remains one of the most expensive operational problems facing protocols and users alike. Taha Abbasi, CTO of Ferrum Network and architect of the OmniChain Protocol, developed a revolutionary approach that could save projects approximately 80% of their multi-chain deployment costs—turning what was once a $2.5 million problem …

OmniChain Protocol: Taha Abbasi’s TCP/IP Vision for Blockchain

In the early 1980s, the internet was a fragmented collection of incompatible networks—academic systems that couldn’t communicate with military networks, which couldn’t connect to corporate systems. It took TCP/IP, a universal communication protocol, to unite these isolated islands into the global internet we know today. Taha Abbasi, CTO of Ferrum Network, believes blockchain faces the …

Saving Lives with Blockchain: Expanding on Taha Abbasi’s TED Talk

When Taha Abbasi took the stage for his TED Talk titled “Saving Lives with Blockchain: It’s More Than Bitcoin and Drugs”, he aimed to reframe how audiences understand this technology. Beyond the cryptocurrency headlines and dark web associations, blockchain offers practical tools for some of humanity’s most pressing challenges—including healthcare, supply chain transparency, and identity …

Inside the Ferrum Network Whitepaper: Taha Abbasi’s Interoperability Vision

The Ferrum Network Whitepaper represents one of the most comprehensive technical visions for blockchain interoperability in the industry. Authored by Taha Abbasi as CTO, the whitepaper details an architecture for connecting disparate blockchain networks into a unified ecosystem—a vision that addresses some of Web3’s most fundamental challenges. The Problem the Whitepaper Addresses Today’s blockchain landscape …

Scaling from 4 to 45: Taha Abbasi’s Web N App Growth Story

Growing a company from 4 employees to 45, across 11 countries, while serving clients like NASA JPL, National Geographic, Apple, and Turkish Airlines, requires more than technical skills—it requires understanding how technology, people, and processes scale together. Taha Abbasi, as CEO and Chief Software Architect of Web N App, navigated this growth while maintaining a …

Startup Brunei: How Taha Abbasi Brought Silicon Valley to Southeast Asia

When Taha Abbasi co-founded Startup Brunei, the tiny Southeast Asian nation of 450,000 people had no formal tech accelerator or entrepreneurship program. The challenge wasn’t just building an organization—it was importing Silicon Valley’s startup culture to a region where entrepreneurship meant something very different. The program brought talent from NASA JPL, Apple, Google, Amazon, and …

From TRYP to Transformation: Taha Abbasi’s Rideshare Driver Rights Advocacy

The gig economy promised freedom—work when you want, be your own boss. For rideshare drivers, that promise often collided with a different reality: declining pay rates, opaque algorithms, and platforms that captured most of the value created by drivers’ labor. As CTO of TRYP Technologies, Taha Abbasi worked to build an alternative—a rideshare platform designed …

OP_CAT and Bitcoin L2s: Taha Abbasi’s Decentralized State Verification

Bitcoin’s evolution as a settlement layer for Layer 2 networks has taken a significant leap forward with the renewed interest in OP_CAT—and Taha Abbasi, CTO of Ferrum Network, is at the forefront of developing decentralized state verification mechanisms that could transform how Bitcoin L2s operate. His work on the Quantum Portal technology represents a practical …

Building Rocket Payloads at NASA Wallops: How Taha Abbasi’s Team Launched into Space

In June 2015, at NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility on Virginia’s Eastern Shore, Taha Abbasi stood with his Web N App engineering team watching as their hand-built payload launched aboard a Terrier-Orion suborbital rocket. Under Abbasi’s leadership, the team had secured a spot in the RockOn! workshop—and now the payload they’d designed, built, and integrated was …

From Mars 2020 to Blockchain: Taha Abbasi’s NASA JPL Contributions

Before blockchain, before startups, before becoming a CTO—Taha Abbasi spent formative years at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, contributing to some of humanity’s most ambitious space exploration missions. His work on the Mars 2020 rover mission, Europa Clipper, and the Asteroid Redirect Robotic Mission (ARRM) shaped his engineering philosophy in ways that continue to influence his …