log 4: lisbon, a governance poc, and a board game that breathes
fourth log, and it covers a month instead of a week. the gap is the story: too much shipping, not enough writing it down. catching up.
ethglobal lisbon: hourglass, automated
took hourglass to ethglobal lisbon (july 24). the version we built there is the automated one: you delegate a bounded permission to an ai agent and it runs a defi yield plan for you (deposits, liquidity positions, limit orders) strictly inside the erc-7710 caveats you sign. presenting forced the pitch down to what a judge can verify in a minute: one signature, one on-chain cap, revocable anytime. that pressure is also what convinced me the delegation framework is a product surface, not just plumbing.
liquid democracy: the graph is the permission system
back from lisbon i started the poc i'm on right now, a mission for the intuition.box dao. the idea: a three-level delegation chain (voter to delegate to executor) where voting authority is scoped by domain, and the scope check is resolved by traversing the intuition knowledge graph. the thesis in one move: add "branding is a sub-domain of design" to the graph, and every design-scoped delegation instantly covers branding, no contract redeploy. the core piece is a custom erc-7710 caveat enforcer that verifies a domain path against live multivault state, plus a frontend where you extend the graph live and watch a delegation signed earlier authorize a domain that did not exist when it was signed. same delegation thread as hourglass, pointed at governance.
the music thread became a client: loka
the sound work brought in a real client. loka is an initiatory board game built around meditation, and i'm designing its companion app: a web app behind a qr code on the game box that carries the whole audio journey. soundtracks, guided meditations, mantras, threshold moments. it sounds simple and it is not: a meditation has to duck the soundtrack and hand it back, mantras layer on top, universes crossfade into each other, and a session runs well over an hour on a phone. so: web audio api for real-time mixing, full offline preload as a pwa, wake lock so a sleeping screen does not kill the sound mid-journey. music, dev, game design and meditation in one project; the venn diagram of everything i do.
what i learned
a hackathon pitch and a dao mission get judged the same way: by what someone can verify live, on their feet. i've started building the demo script before the feature list, and it changes what i build first.
the loka scoping also taught me that on a client project the irreversible thing is not the code, it's the qr code printed on the game boxes. the first technical decision was a boring one: a stable domain with a redirect layer, frozen before anything goes to print.
what's next
- liquid democracy: seed the domain graph on testnet, ship the enforcer with its test suite, then rehearse the live demo.
- loka: audio inventory back from the client, then a first playable audio prototype.
- the site itself got a redesign this week (stacked sheets, the real timeline). that one has its own note.