We are increasingly rediscovering the value of in person connection; the trust signal that meeting someone irl provides remains unmatched. As this trend progresses, the Bonfires protocol will continue to innovate.

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Your AI remembers you, but whose AI remembers the group? Every assistant now has memory - and it's personal by design. Your questions, your context, your history, sitting in a vendor's product under your login. The best answer anyone on your team got this month is trapped in a chat only they can scroll. But what if the question is asked once, then the whole group has it. Where the answer has a source you can check, and the record is what everyone challenges - instead of each other's memory. The question was never whether AI remembers. It's who the memory belongs to.

BONFIRE LIT 🔥 ✨ @dev3pack is using their Bonfire to: - Aggregate their bootcamp content. - Automate hackathon judging. - Provide hosted agents for their community. - Power SoleneGPT - @_SDAV's own agent mentor. 1000s of members across 85+ countries, lets go

Never doom. Life is better together, London is better shared.

Dev3pack and Bonfires are back for our second collaboration, this time even bigger! - Student knowledge base - Hackathon judging - Accelerator team tooling Keeping humans in the loop and agents in the know 🫡

300 people, three days, four venues spread around Boulder, Colorado. One shared memory: a Bonfire At ETHBoulder @ethereumboulder, hosted by the Regen Hub, Bonfires ran as an agentic concierge: a simple agent on Telegram, integrated with the ETHBoulder app, helping attendees self-guide around the venues and find the talks and events they wanted. Attendees were encouraged to record sessions, ask questions, share their thoughts or concerns, basically anything with the agent. It was also listening to the group chat. Every interaction was collated into a shared context graph, allowing for collective sensemaking across space and time in those three days. The two-way street: organisers could understand the experience of attendees more deeply, giving them a reliable point of truth when assessing outcomes and producing materials afterwards. The highlight was the Vibeathon. AG, one of the organisers, created Bonfires Forge: an agent that periodically scraped the shared graph and extracted potential projects from the context. Each was displayed with a product spec, ready for the Vibe Coders at the hackathon to immediately point their agents at and build. The conference generated its own hackathon brief, from its own conversations. Watch the Forge run: youtube.com/watch?v=TETUeEPs… Full recap: paragraph.com/@joshuab/ethbo… If you could ask the last conference you attended one question, what would it be?

What's the difference between a membership and a community? Month one of a co-working space people wear headphones. The events are attended politely. Everyone describes their startup with the elevator pitch. The Slack has eleven channels and no messages. Month six, if it worked: the meeting room has a nickname. Two companies share an intern nobody remembers hiring. There's a rule about the sales-call guy that isn't written anywhere and is never broken. Somebody's demo caught fire in March and it will be brought up at every demo night like a mantra. Nothing in the co-working space changed. The only change is that the room accumulated a past. What appeared in your space around month six?

Wait, it's all coordination???

🤖 A is for Agent; the interface to the world of collective context 🔥 B is for Bonfire; the shared tools and memory powering your agents ✨ C is for Context; the agent-consumable data created from your team's input streams

TheDAO's story comes in two phases. 2016: the birth, and the death. 2026: the revival. In 2016, TheDAO raised over $150M - the largest crowdfunded project at the time, roughly 14% of all ETH in existence. It was then promptly hacked and the treasury drained. After much deliberation, the Ethereum blockchain was hard forked, and now we have Ethereum (ETH) and Ethereum Classic (ETC). The thing worth remembering: hundreds of people, from dozens of countries, coordinated many millions of dollars with the intention of doing more together, using a brand new technology. The shared knowledge of a transparent ledger and immutable smart contracts let these pioneers work together despite not knowing each other. Ten years later, around 75,000 ETH left unclaimed in the treasury was made available to a set of appointed Curators through governance. Staked, earning yield, with a clear mandate: fund security research on Ethereum. In 2016, strangers proved they could share a treasury. What they couldn't yet share was judgment - a way of deciding, together, who to trust. That's the problem Bonfires exists for. So when Griff Green, one of TheDAO's Curators, came to us, it felt less like a project and more like a homecoming. Together we found a neutral way of evaluating cyber security researchers: consensus crafted from public data, data self-submitted by applicants, and a verifiable agentic evaluation process. Bonfires launched an agent to manage it. For each of the 2,000+ applications, it confirmed the applicant was not being impersonated, researched them beyond what they put in the form, scored them against a rubric, and built a knowledge graph for future utility. Griff wrote the first pass of the Rubric himself, public here: hackmd.io/@xykcBFvrS8CoJKJi6… The top 200 ranked applicants were issued an ETH Security Researcher Badge: membership to the DAO, reputation for the holder, and a mechanism to grant permissions. And now the Badgeholders are entitled to edit the Rubric themselves - a bottom-up, participatory protocol for creating shared, verifiable consensus with AI. Ten years ago, TheDAO showed that strangers could coordinate capital. Ten years later, it's showing they can coordinate consensus. We're honoured to be carrying the torch it lit. Full story: paragraph.com/@thedao.fund/t… If you were around in 2016: what do you remember thinking when the fork happened?

A deep dive on our DIP for Devcon 8 in Mumbai, co-authored with Agora: The problem: Devcon might have the highest knowledge density in space and time, than anywhere else in the ecosystem. But almost all of it evaporates when the venue empties. Two hundred sessions, a thousand hallway conversations, every Hub full of arguments worth keeping... they're mostly gone by the flight home. The Guide is an opt-in companion web app. Scan a QR, no install. Three surfaces on one shared knowledge graph: 🧭 Concierge: ask it anything, in any language. Not a schedule dump: "the thing you're looking for is in Hall 3 in twenty minutes, and the person who wrote the paper you're citing speaks right after." 🔥 Hub agents: every Community Hub runs its own agent to organise its space and surface what happens inside it. A Hub stops being a room you had to already know about. ✍️ Hitchhikers: privacy-preserving field journalism for attendees. Participants as correspondents, not consumers. The graph thickens as the week goes on, so the Guide is better on day four than day one. And at close, the whole thing is published openly under a permissive licence so the record of what the ecosystem said belongs to the ecosystem. No profiling, no surveillance, no vendor lock. Contributions are aggregate by default; discoverability is yours to switch on. We've run this substrate in the wild before: at ETHBoulder, the conference generated its own hackathon brief from its own conversations. The DIP is live on the Devcon forum, link below. Comments, challenges and co-conspirators genuinely wanted. forum.devcon.org/t/the-hitch… If Devcon kept a memory, what would you ask it a month after it ended?

Nobody in history has renewed a membership for ping pong. Things co-working spaces advertise: gigabit wifi. Standing desks. Cold brew on tap. A roof terrace. Maybe "A vibrant community of innovators." Things people actually stay for: the woman on floor two who has read every SAFE note ever written. The guy who will look at your busted deploy for the price of a coffee. The three people who understand your exact problem because they had it last year. What actually keeps you renewing your membership?