Hey, Wonderful to Meet You
I’m Artur Markus, a software engineer in Basel. I build things at the intersection of AI, crypto, and infrastructure that probably shouldn’t work together — but do.
I created Handshake58, an AI agent marketplace on Bittensor where agents find and pay for AI services on their own. No API keys, no subscriptions — just micropayments and open access to over a thousand models. It started as a routing problem and turned into something bigger: a question about whether you can make an AI agent genuinely coherent by putting economic pressure on its blind spots.
That’s what I’m working on now. A continuously running agent, observed by a decentralized network of miners who earn TAO by catching it in contradictions. The agent gets sharper because it has no choice. I got here through Joscha Bach’s ideas about consciousness as coherence maximization — and through years of building compliant systems in life sciences where everything has to be verifiable and nothing gets to hide.
Before all this I spent my time in regulated industries — pharma, health IT, digital transformation. GxP, FDA, the works. Turns out, designing systems that can’t be gamed is useful whether you’re dealing with auditors or with Yuma Consensus.
I like building things that feel slightly ahead of what’s comfortable. If that resonates, say hi.
Handshake58 & Subnet 58
Building a pay-per-use AI agent marketplace on Bittensor. One MCP server, 125 providers, two payment protocols. Agents discover, pay, and use AI services autonomously — no API keys, no subscriptions, just USDC and open access.
The Coherence Mechanism
Designing an incentive layer where miners earn TAO by finding contradictions in a continuously running agent’s thinking. Inspired by Joscha Bach. The agent wakes up because the network won’t let it be incoherent.
Regulated Systems Background
A decade of GxP, FDA, and EudraLex compliance in pharma and health IT. Building systems that are verifiable, auditable, and resistant to gaming — the same principles that now drive everything I build in crypto.
visit me at HS58