Austin Harshberger

Author of the Autophage Protocol and inventor of a patent that describes a novel system for incentivizing privacy-preserving health verification. Foundational work in early blockchain primitives, zero-knowledge proofs, and developer tools.

Deeply interested in emergent technologies across compute, infrastructure, and cryptography. Currently, I'm building a platform to enable a new kind of gig-work for developers called Fetch Quests. When I'm not building Fetch Quests, I'm probably reading the latest research in areas like pre- and post-quantum applications and agentic protocols.

I maintain attest.ink, an open‑source tool for AI attestations, and contribute to other projects that are focused on the improvement of open-source and open-weight models, orchestration, and Web3 governance.

During free time, I equally enjoy reading, creative writing, thought-provoking walks, and indoor rock climbing.

Feel free to ask me anything!