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The time has come for hundreds of Bonfires to be lit; for the Ethereum community to coordinate harder, research with fervour and unite as a collectively graphed web across cyber-blockspace.
In this short update we detail the success of our alpha build, share the release of our $KNOW economics paper "Determining Value in the Space of Ideas" and the final details of the Genesis NFT sale, closing December 15th.
Bonfires.ai enables groups of people to seamlessly generate structured context and feed the data demands of the growing deAI space; creating knowledge and revenue flows for a cooperatively owned AI future.
Watch our cartoon "The First Bonfire", demonstrating the power of coordination:
Ingestion of unstructured data from TG, Discord, transcripts, documents, Notion etc.
Automated episodic knowledge graph generation and entity extraction
GraphRAG for effective query results
Contribution and retrievals tracking
Optional x402 payments for query access
ERC-8004 graph reputation registry
Beta Graph Viewer at graph.bonfires.ai
We ran our largest experiment yet at Edge City: Patagonia - it worked. We successfully demonstrated a Bonfire's ability to maintain coherence over 7 group chats, 30+ topic channels, 400 people and 30 days, constructing a beautiful graph consisting of over 10,000 nodes.
Our experiment centred around "Edgegardo", the Edge City Bonfire's primary agent. Edgegardo began in a smaller private group, before being invited to listen in to the main Edge City group chat and subsequently in half a dozen other groups.
Some of his highlights:
personalised daily schedules (based on user query alone)
distribution of local tour guide services to Edge City participants, with restaurant recommendations surfaced through the graph
comprehensive qualitative research projects on Transhumanism, prediction markets and supplement consumption
A Bonfire deployed with the intention of tracking synchronous events across Edge City, facilitated by Stanford PhD Tugce Tasci, to assist in her budding consciousness research.
Tugce was immensely grateful that the Bonfires protocol exists as she was manually inputting synchronous events into her Obsidian graph, herself having dreamt of an automated protocol to assist with her research. She's publishing some work on this soon!
The whitepaper for $KNOW, the currency of the Knowledge Economy is now released to the public.
The paper, titled "Determining Value in the Space of Ideas", describes a formula for computing a value for information retrieved across a semantic graph. A combination of metrics such as:
semantic distance,
reputation,
quality of information,
economic stake weight and
pure retrieval count
are used to determine a "knowledge score" by which $KNOW emissions are distributed, providing a baseline primitive for assigning value to the retrieval of structured context.
Combined with $KNOW emissions, this score represents the foundation of a Knowledge Economy; an economic system that enables people to earn from the curation of unstructured data into shared knowledge graphs.
The formulas detailed within contain several levers for necessary flexibility of value attribution, given the novel nature of the problem we are solving. This means we will monitor the performance of the network activity and adjust accordingly the formula.
$KNOW economics are designed by CryptoEconLab in tandem with the Bonfires team.
We have set a deadline of December 15th on the Genesis NFT sale, available at mint.bonfires.ai.
After this date, it will no longer be possible to mint a Genesis NFT.
The Genesis NFT entitles you to:
$KNOW allocation at low FDV - calculated @ (ETH price * 5000)
Launch a Bonfire before TGE (expected Early Q1)
Anybody that wishes to launch a Bonfire after the sale closes must purchase a Genesis NFT from the secondary market.
Once the sale has concluded we will begin preparations for the $KNOW TGE in early Q1 2026.
Other than the Genesis NFT sale, the only method to get allocated to $KNOW pre-TGE is through the Spark programme, the upcoming ambassador programme by bonfires.ai. If you are interested in community ambassador facilitation at scale, please email admin@desci.world with your proposal.
Knowledge-Backed Economy - Live Presentation (2023)
Knowledge Graph Hyperstructure - Video Lecture (2023)
Discussing incentivised RAG retrievals as economic primitive - Podcast (2024)
Proof of Knowledge (now: Knowledge Network) - Article (2024)
Agentic Economy Knowledge Layer - Live Presentation (2025)
"Light Up The Dark Forest" - Article (2025)
Watch our mini-series of the core team cooking the product - Youtube (2025)
The time has come for hundreds of Bonfires to be lit; for the Ethereum community to coordinate harder, research with fervour and unite as a collectively graphed web across cyber-blockspace.
In this short update we detail the success of our alpha build, share the release of our $KNOW economics paper "Determining Value in the Space of Ideas" and the final details of the Genesis NFT sale, closing December 15th.
Bonfires.ai enables groups of people to seamlessly generate structured context and feed the data demands of the growing deAI space; creating knowledge and revenue flows for a cooperatively owned AI future.
Watch our cartoon "The First Bonfire", demonstrating the power of coordination:
Ingestion of unstructured data from TG, Discord, transcripts, documents, Notion etc.
Automated episodic knowledge graph generation and entity extraction
GraphRAG for effective query results
Contribution and retrievals tracking
Optional x402 payments for query access
ERC-8004 graph reputation registry
Beta Graph Viewer at graph.bonfires.ai
We ran our largest experiment yet at Edge City: Patagonia - it worked. We successfully demonstrated a Bonfire's ability to maintain coherence over 7 group chats, 30+ topic channels, 400 people and 30 days, constructing a beautiful graph consisting of over 10,000 nodes.
Our experiment centred around "Edgegardo", the Edge City Bonfire's primary agent. Edgegardo began in a smaller private group, before being invited to listen in to the main Edge City group chat and subsequently in half a dozen other groups.
Some of his highlights:
personalised daily schedules (based on user query alone)
distribution of local tour guide services to Edge City participants, with restaurant recommendations surfaced through the graph
comprehensive qualitative research projects on Transhumanism, prediction markets and supplement consumption
A Bonfire deployed with the intention of tracking synchronous events across Edge City, facilitated by Stanford PhD Tugce Tasci, to assist in her budding consciousness research.
Tugce was immensely grateful that the Bonfires protocol exists as she was manually inputting synchronous events into her Obsidian graph, herself having dreamt of an automated protocol to assist with her research. She's publishing some work on this soon!
The whitepaper for $KNOW, the currency of the Knowledge Economy is now released to the public.
The paper, titled "Determining Value in the Space of Ideas", describes a formula for computing a value for information retrieved across a semantic graph. A combination of metrics such as:
semantic distance,
reputation,
quality of information,
economic stake weight and
pure retrieval count
are used to determine a "knowledge score" by which $KNOW emissions are distributed, providing a baseline primitive for assigning value to the retrieval of structured context.
Combined with $KNOW emissions, this score represents the foundation of a Knowledge Economy; an economic system that enables people to earn from the curation of unstructured data into shared knowledge graphs.
The formulas detailed within contain several levers for necessary flexibility of value attribution, given the novel nature of the problem we are solving. This means we will monitor the performance of the network activity and adjust accordingly the formula.
$KNOW economics are designed by CryptoEconLab in tandem with the Bonfires team.
We have set a deadline of December 15th on the Genesis NFT sale, available at mint.bonfires.ai.
After this date, it will no longer be possible to mint a Genesis NFT.
The Genesis NFT entitles you to:
$KNOW allocation at low FDV - calculated @ (ETH price * 5000)
Launch a Bonfire before TGE (expected Early Q1)
Anybody that wishes to launch a Bonfire after the sale closes must purchase a Genesis NFT from the secondary market.
Once the sale has concluded we will begin preparations for the $KNOW TGE in early Q1 2026.
Other than the Genesis NFT sale, the only method to get allocated to $KNOW pre-TGE is through the Spark programme, the upcoming ambassador programme by bonfires.ai. If you are interested in community ambassador facilitation at scale, please email admin@desci.world with your proposal.
Knowledge-Backed Economy - Live Presentation (2023)
Knowledge Graph Hyperstructure - Video Lecture (2023)
Discussing incentivised RAG retrievals as economic primitive - Podcast (2024)
Proof of Knowledge (now: Knowledge Network) - Article (2024)
Agentic Economy Knowledge Layer - Live Presentation (2025)
"Light Up The Dark Forest" - Article (2025)
Watch our mini-series of the core team cooking the product - Youtube (2025)
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