About Austin Wade Smith

Winter 2026

Claims Engine: A modular oracle system for ecological accounting and contracting

I'm building a framework for grassroots and local impact attestations with a grant from Celo and the Ethereum Foundation.
Winter 2026

Ecological Institutions: Law, Economics, and Technology in a More-Than-Human World

You can acquire an advance copy and learn more about the book.
Jan 2026

Wind Trust

A DAO whose permissioning and allocation protocols are controlled by wind flows in NYC.
Dec 2025

Institutional Development Kit

An introduction to the notion of an IDK, and how to use them.
Dec 2025

River Computer Salon at The Fold, San Francisco

Introduction to River Computer in theory and practice.
Dec 2025

Inside Bioregionalism's Tech-Driven Revival by Doug Bierend, Noema Magazine

Dec 2025
Fall 2025

Terra0: Autonomous Forest

I'm a founding board member of the Autonomous Forest Verein.
Winter 2026

Ecological Institutions: Law, Economics, and Technology in a More-Than-Human World

An intro to the book with a focus on the Institutional Development Kit (IDK)
Dec 2025

River Computer Salon at The Fold, San Francisco

Jun 2025

"Protocols of Interdependence" Lecture at Blockchain @ University of British Columbia

May 2025

"Living Covenants in Theory and Practice" Presentation at the Cascadia Bioregional Summit

May 2025
Feb 2025

"Introducing the Claims Engine" United Nations Innovation Partnership Forum

2024
2024

"Legibility for the Living World" in Interspecies Primer by Light Art Space

2024

"The Shape of DAOs to Come" presentation at ETH Denver

2024
2023

"Building Feral Webs" presentation at Climate Tectonics Conference at Harvard GSD

2023

Undualing

2023

Queer Servers and Feral Webs

Feral Technology Series
2020

"Place Holder" Are.na Annual 2020

2020

"Digital Animism" workshop at Pioneer Works, New York

2025

Inside Bioregionalism’s Tech-Driven Revival by Doug Bierend, Noema Magazine

2025
2025

"Blockchain Gov: Network Nations" Podcast

2024

"More Than Human" Future Observatory Journal No.2 by the Design Museum

2024

"Daylighting Cryptocurrency’s Water Streams" by Isabel Ling, eflux journal #146

2024

"Ecological Institutions" Ma Earth Podcast with Jessie Kate Schingler and Tony Lai

2024

"Open Source Commons for Sensemaking" Future Fossils Podcast

2023

"Legibility of the Living World" Ma Earth Podcast

coming soon...