About David A. Johnston, Lead Technologist & Code Maintainer at Morpheus
A serial entrepreneur, freedom maximalist, and early pioneer in AI and Web3, David coined the term “DApps” in 2013 when he wrote the first white paper on “Decentralized Applications”. David was an early Bitcoin contributor, co-founded one of the world’s largest angel investment groups in Bitcoin, and the DApps Fund, the first all-token venture fund to invest entirely in open-source, blockchain projects like Bitcoin, Ethereum and many more. David is currently a leading open source contributor to Morpheus, a decentralized network of general-purpose personal AIs, called Smart Agents, that’s fostering a future where technology is more accessible and transparent. David has spoken at the industry’s premier events across the world, including Consensus ("Why Closed AI is Already Cooked"), Permissionless, and The North American Blockchain Summit among many others. David is seen on Bloomberg TV here and several other talks here. Connect with David on X here and LinkedIn here.
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