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Who is Behind ZABAL Gamez

Built by the ZAO.

ZABAL Gamez Season 1 is hosted by Zaal under the BetterCallZaal umbrella, run by a small core of ZAO ecosystem builders, and powered by partner platforms across Farcaster, Base, and Solana. Below is the cast list.

Hosts

ORGANIZER

Zaal - @bettercallzaal, FID 19640

The organizer. Runs ZABAL Gamez, BetterCallZaal, the /zabal channel. Builder, music infra, ZAO operations. Site: bettercallzaal.com.

COMMUNITY

The ZAO

100+ member Farcaster music community. Governance runs on Respect, a reputation members earn from each other in weekly sessions. The constituency the Games serves and the voter set for the Finals.

Core Builders

WAVEWARZ FOUNDER

Hurric4n3Ike - @hurric4n3ike on X

Built WaveWarZ - the artist prediction-market platform (live numbers at wavewarz-intelligence.vercel.app). WaveWarZ is the underlying tech the August Finals will run on.

WAVEWARZ-BASE

Sam - WaveWarZ-Base co-builder

Shipping the next version of WaveWarZ alongside Hurric4n3Ike, on track for July.

ZAO MUSIC + DEVOPS

Iman

ZAO Music team member, working with Zaal on the cowork action-item tracker, ZOE skills coordination, ORDAO governance integration for the Respect-holder snapshot mechanism.

Confirmed Workshop Leads

Open roster for the rest. Sign up: zabalgamez.com/lead. Live count + spec links also on the main page workshops section.

Partner Platforms

Real platforms in the ZAO ecosystem ZABAL Gamez builds will plug into. These are the rails (see llms.txt for the code snippets).

TOKEN ECONOMY + LEADERBOARDS

Empire Builder - Jordan Oram (yerbearserker) + Adrian (diviflyy)

The platform behind $ZABAL. Community leaderboards, boosters, and bulk reward payouts, free to start. Co-creators built it with Zaal.

SNAP BUILDER

Zlank - Zaal + kmac.eth

No-code Farcaster Snap builder at zlank.online. Drag-drop builder with 14 block types. The ZABAL Gamez signup Snap is a partner template here.

PREDICTION MARKETS

WaveWarZ - Hurric4n3Ike + Sam

Version 1 is live at wavewarz-intelligence.vercel.app. The new version is in build with Sam and settles the August Finals. Artists and builders earn a 1% cut of every trade, paid out automatically.

TOKEN LAUNCHER

Clanker - now part of Farcaster (Neynar)

How $ZABAL launched on January 1, 2026. Tag @clanker in a Farcaster cast and it launches a community token for you, with long-term locked backing. An optional Finals mechanic.

IDENTITY + ROLES

Farcaster Hubs + Hats Protocol + Bonfire + EAS

The identity and reputation stack ZABAL Gamez builds on. Farcaster's open network supplies profiles and posts. Hats assigns roles like mentor and governance (Finisher and Champion rewards are commemorative collectibles). Bonfire maps who built what. EAS records verifiable claims.

Mentors

The August Finals pair each finalist with an embedded ZAO mentor. Mentor roster is open - sign up via the /lead form (pick "Mentor" or "Both"). Confirmed mentors are added as they sign up.

Open invitations

The ZAO ecosystem builds in public. If you want in: