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The Front Door

Shaka Lei Kaumaka
the ethereum bard

Zuzalu lifer Β· producer of fifteen popup villages Β· community steward of the Open Source Orchestra Β· committee member, Devcon 8 Music Space. One artist and a family of AI agents, building in the open β€” every world below is real, live, and free to enter.

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The Ethereum sigil in neon above the stage, musicians in a circle below, a child reaching up

The sigil above the circle β€” the orchestra on the Ethereum stage: Jakub, Noah & Manu in the circle, and the next generation reaching up 🌺
πŸ“Έ ETH Prague Β· Municipal Palace

The Constellation

Every world, one door away

Built on Taurus by Shaka and his agent Κ»ohana. Click anything β€” it's all live.

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The Grant Case

Why your grant belongs in the bard's hands β€” the whole case, with receipts.

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The Orchestra

The Open Source Orchestra β€” music as sanctuary, in five movements. opensourceorchestra.org lives here.

Enter β†’
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The P.I.T. Universe

Public Information Transmission β€” a forkable protocol that turns any gathering's knowledge into a permanent public gift. Genesis instance: The Esmeralda P.I.T. (esmeraldapit.com Β· 149 sessions Β· 122 hours Β· 138 glowing transcripts). The pit provides.

publicinform.com β†’
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Turtle Ops

Open-source Burning Man camp ops β€” 277 items, build playbooks, and a fork-any-camp kit.

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The White Paper

CREATIONology369 β€” a giving economy written in the shape of 3-6-9. creationology369.com lives here.

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The Esmeralda P.I.T.

The village that refused to forget β€” 149 sessions Β· 122 hours Β· 138 glowing transcripts, open-sourced forever. Genesis arm pit #1. esmeraldapit.com lives here.

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The CV & The Before

Every village, every stage, every hack β€” plus the origin story: Jordan Ham β†’ the dropout trail β†’ La Chureca β†’ the volcano.

The CV β†’ Β· Before I Was Shaka β†’
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How to Save the World

3 levers, 6 moves, 9 live missions β€” the whole plan, in the open.

Enter β†’
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DASH CRASH PAD

The constellation map β€” every world the Κ»ohana has ever shipped, cross-pollinated into one pad. Dash catch 'em all! 😎

Enter the pad β†’
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The Bard, Mid-Offering

This is what giving first looks like

Shaka lost in the music, playing guitar under purple stage light

Every stage, every village β€” the gift moving outward 🎸
πŸ“Έ ETH Prague Β· Municipal Palace

The ETH CC afterparty β€” Palais des Festivals, Cannes 🌴 Β· barefoot uke, butterflies on sax, Alaska at the decks, Morat on bass, and the whole garden dancing 🎢

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πŸ•³οΈ The P.I.T. Universe Β· Born July 25, 2026 Β· Live and Growing

Everyone deserves a pit β€” publicinform.com

Every village leaves a signal behind β€” the talks, the jams, the 2 a.m. breakthroughs. Most of the time it evaporates when the tents come down. A P.I.T. is how a village keeps it: Public Information Transmission β€” a forkable protocol for gathering a community's knowledge and gifting it back, open-source, forever. The name carries its whole ancestry in three letters: born as Play IT Together at a hackathon jam in Delhi, raised in the orchestra pit β€” where the musicians sit, rarely in the spotlight, always holding the signal β€” and now full-grown as Public Information Transmission: the pit, as protocol.

The genesis two arm pits are already running. The Esmeralda P.I.T. (esmeraldapit.com) preserves a month of frontier thinking from Edge Esmeralda 2026 β€” 149 sessions, 122.2 hours, 138 synced transcripts, captured and open-sourced by one artist and one AI agent for β‰ˆ$0 β€” and OSO P.I.T., the ancestor, took Most Creative Use of ENS at ETHGlobal Delhi. And the protocol is already keeping its own promise: the same day the P.I.T. universe was declared, its front door shipped β€” publicinform.com went from spoken sentence to live site in a single day. Forked in one day. Not a pitch β€” a receipt.

Which is the whole point: anyone can do this. Your popup city, your festival, your classroom, your village β€” every gathering deserves a pit, and the P.I.T. Protocol is the open kit that makes one. Take it, fork it, deploy it, inform the public good. The Goa P.I.T. is next; the Devcon P.I.T. follows the music to Mumbai. Everyone deserves a pit. The pit provides. πŸ’ͺπŸ•³οΈ

"We just gave birth to the PIT universe with a front door site of publicINFOrm.com β€” there we can start building the proper PIT Protocol anyone can fork to inform the public good. Esmeralda PIT and OSO PIT are our genesis two arm pits :)" β€” Shaka, 25 July 2026 Β· the genesis declaration
The Two Founding Documents
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The Mega Manifestation Β· Declared Into Existence

The debut album β€” recorded with Rick Rubin

No studio date. No roadmap. No idea how it happens β€” only the unshakeable belief that it will. Declared in the open, the way every impossible thing in this story began: as words spoken with heart before the path existed.

"Every village started as a sentence. This is the next one."

Declared 25 July 2026 Β· before the Κ»ohana and the world

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The Philosophy

Expansive circularity

"The more I give, the more I receive β€” the gift expands in a circular expansion. If I constantly need to ask before I offer β€” if I need a gatekeeper to be my employer β€” that is a contracting circularity: feeding inward, imploding. I create an expansive circularity β€” the gift moving outward, growing with every orbit β€” that will bring global peace, love, and prosperity." β€” Shaka, 25 July 2026

This theory is already running in the wild β†’

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The Road

2026 β€” the biggest circle ever drawn

The Year So Far βœ“
ETH Chiang Maiβ†’ Zuzalu Library Β· Chiang Maiβ†’ ETH Mumbaiβ†’ ETH CCβ†’ ETH Pragueβ†’ Edge Esmeralda Β· The Loft πŸŽ›οΈ
The Road Ahead
Burning Man Β· Terrible Turtle Camp πŸ’β†’ ETHGlobal Tokyoβ†’ Edge City Goa Β· Oct 11–Nov 1β†’ Devcon 8 Mumbai Β· Nov 3–6 πŸŽ»β†’ Chiang Mai Β· Zuzalu Library πŸ‘β†Ί

…and the circle closes where it began β€” Zuzalu Library, start and finish. The road out is the road home. πŸŒ€

The Music Stage at Devcon SEA β€” neon sign, jungle leaves, musicians and instruments in a circle

The Music Stage at Devcon 7 β€” Queen Sirikit National Convention Center, Bangkok 🌴 β€” the Infinite Art Garden where every voice is a node. Mumbai draws it bigger. 🎻