David Johnston
OSS Code Maintainer At Morpheus at MorpheusAIs
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDavid Johnston is a seasoned decentralization pioneer with 12 years building and investing in Bitcoin, blockchain protocols, and token-native funds, now focused on open-source smart contract infrastructure and AI-driven Smart Agents. He co-founded the influential BitAngels network, authored early foundational work on decentralized applications, chaired boards for layer-2 projects like Omni/Factom, and ran Yeoman’s Capital to back permissionless technologies. Today he maintains OSS at Morpheus and commercializes open models and agents as Chief AI Officer at BasedAI, blending deep protocol intuition with hands-on engineering. David’s career bridges investing, board-level strategy, and code-level contributions—an uncommon mix that helped launch early ICO mechanics and now applies to composable smart agents trained on contracts. Based in Austin, he repeatedly positions nascent tech stacks (from Mastercoin to Smart Agents) to move from experiment to production.
12 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Decentralized Information Systems Biotech Investment Enterprise Software Renewable Energy, Decentralized Information Systems Biotech Investment Enterprise Software Renewable Energy at Howard Community College
Chinese, Turkish, German
Github Skills (32)
spec10
ethereum10
specification10
blockchain10
smart-contracts10
decentralized-applications10
llm-inference9
bitcoin9
ai9
jwt7
django7
cryptocurrency6
open-source6
peg6
conversions5
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
MorpheusAIs/Docs
Feb 2024 - Mar 2025
Technical Documentation
Contributions:72 reviews, 225 PRs, 425 pushes in 1 year
MorpheusAIs/Morpheus
Sep 2023 - Mar 2024
Morpheus - A Network For Powering Smart Agents - Compute + Code + Capital + Community
Contributions:43 reviews, 791 PRs, 487 pushes in 6 months
agentsaicomputeethereumllm-inference
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