Auston Bunsen

Auston Bunsen is the Founder of AccessGrid, a decentralized compute platform, and is currently based in Miami, Florida. Previously, he served as the Co-founder and CEO of QuickNode, a Web3 infrastructure provider that he helped scale to serve over 100,000 developers globally. Under his leadership, the Y Combinator-backed startup secured a $60 million Series B funding round, reaching an $800 million valuation. The company also established key partnerships with networks like Solana before its eventual acquisition by Rakuten in late 2024. In early 2024, Bunsen launched AccessGrid to build decentralized GPU infrastructure for artificial intelligence and blockchain applications, recently deploying a beta testnet allocating over 10,000 GPU hours. As a self-taught software engineer, his current focus remains on building scalable developer tools and high-performance distributed systems for the broader cryptocurrency and enterprise sectors.