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Week 94+ - live, Mondays 6pm EST

The weekly Respect Game,
100+ weeks unbroken.

ZAO Fractal is the only music-focused fractal in existence, the only active fractal on Optimism, and one of two on the Ethereum Superchain. Governance comes from contribution, not capital.

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100+weekly sessions
242+OREC transactions
~40active members
2Respect tokens on-chain

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Reference
16 files - shallow lineage survey

Every fractal that ever existed (Larimer, Fractally, Eden, Optimism, Roy, Aquadac). Start here.

Research
37 files - DEEP-tier, 500+ sources

Theory, mechanism, ORDAO contracts, communities, music, async, identity, tooling, the full Optimystics catalog, and history of every fractal end to end.

Whitepaper
12 files - magnum opus drafts

The ZAO Fractal Whitepaper. Chapters 1-3 in v0.1 draft. Chapters 4-11 still to come.

Resources
Master index

Every person, organization, community, contract, tool, paper, and URL cited across the repo. One place to find any reference.

Visual explorations

Two pages built on top of the canonical Markdown source for non-linear browsing.

Lineage timeline
2014 -> 2026 - the fractal-democracy story

Larimer's BitShares through ZAO Fractal Week 94. Every milestone color-coded by era.

People
Who built this lineage

Larimer, SingJoy, Tadas, Zaal, Mikael, plus the founders of every active fractal community.

Live ZAO Fractal facts

CadenceMondays 6pm EST, weekly. Also runs anytime with 4+ unplayed members.
StreakWeek 94+ continuous
SurfaceDiscord bot fractalbotmarch2026 (52 slash commands, v2.1)
ChainOptimism (OP Mainnet)
OREC executor0xcB05F9254765CA521F7698e61E0A6CA6456Be532
OG Respect (ERC-20, fractals 1-73)0x34cE89baA7E4a4B00E17F7E4C0cb97105C216957
ZOR Respect (ERC-1155, fractals 74+)0x9885CCeEf7E8371Bf8d6f2413723D25917E7445c
Submission UIzao.frapps.xyz/submitBreakout
OREC transactions242+ as of May 21, 2026

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