CISO.POKER chips aren't just plastic and paint. Each one carries a locked NFC tag that logs a data point the moment it's tapped — who, when, where, and what happened next. 175 chips. One night. One open dataset.
Each chip is programmed once with a single locked URL — something like
https://tag.ciso.poker/v/A7F3K2. The tag is then hardware-locked and can
never be rewritten. But the server decides in real time where that URL goes.
We can change every chip's destination without touching a single piece of hardware.
Player chips aren't just tap-and-go. Each one is distributed pre-event with a unique token that deep-links directly to the seat registration form — chip pre-filled, ready to apply. When the application is submitted, the chip is cryptographically linked to that seat in our system. One chip. One seat. No duplicates.
Every chip class has a different URL prefix, a different redirect destination, and a
different place in the tournament arc. The class is baked into the URL —
/c/ for player, /v/ for VIP, /s/ for sponsor.
The primary credential for every seated CISO. Tap a player chip to see who is at the table tonight.
Issued to TLV partners, VC guests, and key community voices. Gold chip, gold access.
One per sponsor company. Sits at your table or booth. Every tap is a warm lead — someone physically picked up your chip.
Mystery chips hidden in the event. Reveal on elimination. Each tap could mean someone just collected a prize.
The single ceremonial chip awarded to the night's champion. Redirects update in real time as the tournament arc unfolds.
Tournament directors, dealers, and crew. Filtered from the research dataset — internal ops only.
Chips are registered in the database before anyone arrives. Each chip gets a class, a destination URL, and an owner (if applicable). Sponsor chips can point to your product page or booth info from the moment they're written.
Every tap appears in the live dashboard within seconds — chip ID, class, Cloudflare data center, country, city. Bounty chip taps trigger reveal flows. Prize chip destination updates as the tournament bracket unfolds.
Tap data with consent tier research rolls into the FeltIQ open dataset published after DEFCON. Aggregate behavioral patterns — which chip classes got tapped, when, from where — with zero individual profiles.
Sponsor chips are physical objects that CISOs pick up, hold, and tap. Every tap is a warm signal — that person voluntarily engaged with your chip, in person, at an event built entirely around trust between peers.
FeltIQ is CISO.POKER's real-time research platform — anonymous AI-analyzed survey responses captured from the same CISOs, during the same three hours. Tag data and FeltIQ data are collected and stored separately with a deliberate firewall between them.
We don't know who tapped which chip unless the chip owner explicitly consents to named sharing. The research value is in the aggregate pattern, not the individual record.
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Technical details: tag.ciso.poker on GitHub
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