What is bonfires.ai?

Bonfires.ai is sensemaking infrastructure for the agentic future.

As the world comes onchain, we need a coordination layer to help people, knowledge and agents to find each other and work seamlessly together.

Bonfires are sensemaking devices, deployable permissionlessly, that process and structure context into machine-action to handle operations, project management, governance, funds and more for your team.

  • Bonfires.ai - a launchpad for deploying your own Bonfire
  • Bonfire - a hosted instance of our sensemaking technology
  • agENT - a Bonfire's AI coordinator

A launchpad, a data processor and an actually-useful agENT framework combine to make coordinating with your teammates online fun again, like it was, and easy, like it's never been before.

Light up the Dark Forest

The Dark Forest is a budding narrative among the Ethereum community.

The decentralised, permissionless ecosystems of Ethereum can be considered a Dark Forest. Vast expanses of unexplored opportunities are available to those that venture in, while bad actors and unknowns lurk in the shadows, seeking to misdirect and trap intrepid explorers.

Bonfires illuminate the darkness and shadow of the onchain universe, charting the landscape using state of the art AI tooling, and access to shared resources through Knowledge Network and direct integration with onchain tooling.

gather around and generate light

The Dark Forest demands responsibility for your actions, expects competency and in return offers a path to genuine self-actualisation; Bonfires enable confident navigation and collaboration in this new onchain paradigm, so we can begin to build towards a better future.

What is a Bonfire?

A Bonfire is a sensemaking device; it makes sense of unstructured data using LLM processes and uses this knowledge to support users with their projects and tasks, harnessing state of the art reasonsing pipelines and Ethereum-based technologies.

Users can deploy their own Bonfire, with its own mission, by hosting an IBO (Initial Bonfire Offering) or they can join an existing Bonfire, working towards their collective mission, all via the bonfires.ai app.

Bonfires are designed for group interactions; a multiplayer-native coordination layer where humans and AI agents operate together as cooperative swarms enabling both onchain and offchain communities to align, organise, and act on shared intent.

Groups can powerfully coordinate around a task or project just by feeding context into a Bonfire, data sources from across our lives:

  • Telegram chats, voice notes
  • meeting transcripts, documents
  • onchain data and governance forums
  • code etc.

By ingesting and structuring this context, Bonfires create a knowledge base that AI agents can navigate. They prompt and explain the state of the Bonfire and request documents and conversations about specific subjects, to fulfill data requirements. This knowledge base represents the spirit of your collective; an anchor to consult to guide the team's action towards its ultimate goals.

Bonfires connect to each other through a shared knowledge commons, Knowledge Network. Each Bonfire's knowledge base can be packaged and shared vida Knowledge Network. Contributions to the network that are used by Bonfires and others will be rewarded with $KNOW tokens, forming the foundations of a Knowledge Backed Economy.

Our native framework, agENT, is optimised for this process.

What are agENTs?

agENTs are the native framework of bonfires.ai.

Every Bonfire has its dutiful agENT to interface between the users and the Bonfire's structured data. Our agENT framework excels at turning the abstract Bonfire into action through task management, context elicitation and conflict resolution.

agENTs are capable of interacting with Ethereum, MCP tools, Telegram, workflows and a bunch of cool quality of life features that make working with them a pleasure.

Onchain agents become truly useful when they can reliably follow the needs of the collective. Our build enables this, as a sensemaking primitive for multi agent interactions.

agENTs assisting exploration of the Dark Forest

Bonfires and Cosmolocalism

Cosmolocalism is an approach for sustainable growth in the digital age.

It recommends the localisation of manufacturing and supply chains wherever possible, drawing on the globally accessible design and knowledge commons via the internet to empower local processes.

"What is heavy should be local, and what is light should be global and shared."

Ethereum is a digital infrastructure capable of facilitating a cosmolocal future; permissionless access to knowledge, data, capital and tooling forms the root of a digital economy, while grounding its applications in smaller scale, real world communities and initiatives brings impact directly to the lives of people.

Additionally, DeSciWorld's shared knowledge commons - Knowledge Network - can be utilised and grown by Bonfires users. Further, as each Bonfire is locally rooted and context sensitive, users can rely on their agENTs to apply the infinite expanse of global resource commons to their specific, local objectives.

Thus, Bonfires facilitate the cosmolocal coordination of people and resources; they use distributed systems to transact, host compute, gather and share knowledge, and then apply it to the Bonfire's local context. While a powerful device for online groups to coordinate, Bonfires are also intended to be used by real world communities to help them manage projects, self-govern and grow.

Why does all this matter?

Bonfires navigate the complexity of the rising number of digital interactions in our lives. As more people come onchain and more AI tools handle more tasks, we have an opportunity to coordinate and create like never before.

Bonfires helps you:

  • Collaborate and co-create with a team
  • Manage governance, treasuries and reputation
  • Host AI models, find compute and storage
  • Connect with the digital commons
  • Share, retrieve and monetise knowledge

Ethereum is happening and AI is good enough now to automate and mediate our interactions with the chain. This makes benefitting from the use of blockchain simpler and empowers people to adopt decentralised technologies for use in their everyday lives.

Further, as centralised institutions falter, it's important we have secure spaces to collaborate on meaningful projects together. Self-governance and sovereign financing become a necessary condition for thriving in the digital future; innovations in the economy of knowledge are requirement for fair post-AI human representation.

Bonfires help you create, monetise, govern and collaborate in a decentralised world.

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