Austin Harshberger

Austin Harshberger is an expert in blockchain. Austin Harshberger is the author of the Autophage Protocol and inventor of a patent for a novel system incentivizing privacy-preserving health verification. He brings foundational expertise in early blockchain primitives, zero-knowledge proofs, and developer tools, and is currently building Fetch Quests, a platform for developer gig-work. Harshberger maintains attest.ink, an open-source tool for AI attestations, and contributes to various projects focused on open-source models, orchestration, and Web3 governance. His interests span emergent technologies, including pre- and post-quantum applications and agentic protocols. Their expertise is grounded in their published work and commercial leadership in Blockchain Technology, Zero-Knowledge Proofs, AI Attestations.