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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 gated Farcaster music community. Governance by Respect (soulbound, peer-validated, earned through weekly fractal sessions). The constituency the Games serves and the voter set for the Finals.

Core Builders

WAVEWARZ FOUNDER

Hurric4n3Ike - @hurric4n3ike on X

Built WaveWarZ on Solana - the artist prediction-market platform. Growing battle history + cumulative SOL volume (live numbers at wavewarz-intelligence.vercel.app). WaveWarZ is the underlying tech the August Finals will run on (per Doc 720).

WAVEWARZ-BASE

Sam - WaveWarZ-Base co-builder

Shipping the Base agentic version of WaveWarZ alongside Hurric4n3Ike. Two contracts on testnet, mainnet-bound for July. Full handle + surname pending confirmation.

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

001 - CONFIRMED 2026-05-22

Tyler Stambaugh - Magnetiq founder

30-min Magnetiq pitch in June. Magnetiq also hosts the workshop library + entry/onboarding + the ZABAL connector entry NFT (the host platform for ZABAL Gamez' workshop month). Per the Tyler call recap.

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).

PORTAL + WORKSHOP LIBRARY

Magnetiq - Tyler Stambaugh

Hosts the ZABAL Gamez portal: workshop video library, entry/onboarding, polls, UGC submissions. Native video, opt-in email capture, per-vendor watch analytics. Entry is the ZABAL connector NFT - collect it, you are in.

TOKEN ECONOMY + LEADERBOARDS

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

The platform $ZABAL is wrapped on. apiLeaderboards pattern + booster mechanics + bulk distribute API. V3 tier stack: Basic Empire (free, tokenless) -> Ascended Empire (token launch). Co-creators built it with Zaal.

SNAP BUILDER

Zlank - Zaal + kmac.eth

No-code Farcaster Snap builder at zlank.online. Drag-drop builder, 14 block types, hosted at /s/[uuid]. The ZABAL Gamez signup Snap is a partner template here (PR #63).

MUSIC ENGAGEMENT

SongJam - Adam (SongJam founder, $ZABAL co-creator)

SongJam's leaderboard is migrating off the deprecated X scraper onto an Empire Builder API leaderboard (adoptable project #01). $SANG is SongJam's token; ZABAL holders often hold SANG.

PREDICTION MARKETS

WaveWarZ - Hurric4n3Ike + Sam

Solana v1 live at wavewarz-intelligence.vercel.app. Base v2 in build with Sam (contracts). v2 settles the August Finals (Doc 720). 1% trade cut to the artist/builder, smart-contract settlement.

TOKEN LAUNCHER

Clanker - now part of Farcaster (Neynar)

How $ZABAL launched 2026-01-01. AI-agent token launcher native to Farcaster - tag @clanker in a cast, get an ERC-20 on Base with WETH-paired LP locked until 2100. Optional Finals mechanic per Doc 646.

IDENTITY + ROLES

Farcaster Hubs + Hats Protocol + Bonfire + EAS

The identity + reputation stack ZABAL Gamez builds on. Farcaster Hubs = free open read layer for FID + cast + verified-address lookups (HAATZ wiring pending per Cassie's stack). Hats = role NFTs on Base (mentor + governance roles; Finisher / Champion rewards are commemorative collectibles on Magnetiq). Bonfire = reputation knowledge graph. EAS = attestations.

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"). Confirmations land as DMs convert post-launch. Look for the live count on the home page.

Open invitations

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