Bonfire and the ZABAL Bonfire bot

The second ZABAL Gamez workshop. Joshua.eth and Plat0x (Carlos) introduce Bonfire - a shared AI workspace where a group shares agents and, in the process of using them, grows a shared memory: a knowledge graph that becomes a collective, ownable asset. They get into the data-loss problem, why curation is the last scarce asset, a vision for hackathons where every project is interoperable by design, and a live look at querying the ZABAL Bonfire bot.

• 0:00Intro
• 0:13Welcome - the second ZABAL Gamez workshop
• 0:56What Bonfire is: a shared AI workspace
• 1:35Shared memory: a knowledge graph that grows as you use it
• 2:33How Bonfire fits ZABAL Gamez (from ETH Boulder)
• 3:33Meet Carlos (Plat0x): big data, swarms, and AI
• 6:16The data-loss problem
• 7:03Being part of something, not pay-to-win
• 8:17Value lost: musicians and middlemen
• 9:15Vibe coding changes the game for independent artists
• 10:27"Software as a service is dead"
• 11:47Curation: the last scarce asset
• 14:03Retrieval: catching anyone up on ZABAL Gamez
• 14:44Hackathons: single cells vs one interoperable protocol
• 16:00Mapping who's building what in the ZAO ecosystem
• 17:12Everyone gets an agent; Bonfire as the orchestrator
• 18:11Live: querying the ZABAL Bonfire bot
• 18:59Read agents, notifications, and async teamwork
• 20:39The cost of LLMs and parsing data
• 21:06Indexing for (almost) free with language and grammar
• 22:39How memory systems change app design
• 23:32Wrap and ideas: bounties, insert-coin bot, POIDH
• 25:12Where to find Carlos and Bonfire
• 25:35Outro

• Bonfire is the ecosystem's shared memory - the layer bots and builds sit on top of.
• A group grows a knowledge graph just by using its agents, and the curators own it.
• Curation is the last scarce asset: structured taste and knowledge stay unique and ownable.
• The ZABAL Bonfire bot is live and queryable, so anyone joining mid-season can get caught up.