The fractal-governance lineage is built by a small group of people who all know each other. Knowing the names makes the rest of the lineage make sense. Sourced from reference doc 11 + targeted gap-fill research.
Built BitShares (2014), Steem/Hive (2016), EOS (2018). Wrote "More Equal Animals" (Feb 20, 2021). Co-authored the Fractally White Paper (Feb 22, 2022). The intellectual root of every fractal community alive today.
Placed 3rd in Genesis Fractal. Founded Eden Fractal (May 2022), Optimism Fractal (Oct 2023), and co-founded Optimystics. Musician + governance builder. Created the Fractal DJ variant. Hosts Creator Talk, Fractal Apple.
GitHub: sim31. Built ORDAO, OREC, Fractalgram. Deployed zao.frapps.xyz for ZAO. Released the original Fractalgram in February 2023. The technical core of every modern fractal community. Last commit to sim31/ordao: April 2, 2026.
Co-founder of Optimystics. 1,400 Respect points - 2nd highest contributor to Optimism Fractal. Podcast host, content production.
Building Respect.Games (MIT-licensed, async-first version of the Respect Game). UI improvements to Fractalgram. Working on mainnet deployment of next-gen tools.
Joined Optimism Fractal at week 6, served on Eden council, founded ZAO Fractal in August 2024. Built 7 generations of the fractal Discord bot. Deployed ORDAO for ZAO with Tadas. On daily/weekly terms with SingJoy and Tadas. Wallet: zaal.eth.
One of two wallets that has ever submitted to ZAO's OREC contract. Operational core alongside Zaal. The 2-wallet bottleneck is a documented open issue.
Founded Roy Fractal on EOS - the largest fractal community at 700+ members. Multi-platform facilitation: YouTube archive + Telegram async + Zoom realtime. Nested breakout rooms. Uzbekistan-based.
25+ active members, 30+ meetings. Spanish-speaking fractal community on EOS since 2022.
EOS-based trust network community. Monthly elections, dozens of participants since 2022.
Built Fractal Circles - an async contribution pre-prep tool. Tanja's May 18 2026 call described the problem it solved: "people do amazing work but forget it on presentation day." Mikael unreachable since May 2026. Status: ABANDON revival, route to Frapp-GH instead.
10 core members governing the Upland real-estate metaverse game (3M+ players). Small governance core inside a large community.