BetterCallZaal — The Connector

About

The Connector

For too long, middlemen have extracted from artists — their revenue, their data, their audiences. I build the infrastructure that gives it back.

I'm Zaal — electrical engineer turned ecosystem architect, based in Maine. I founded The ZAO to close the gap between blockchain tools and creator distribution. I also connect builders, artists, and communities with the right people to make things happen. Whether you need infrastructure built or the right introduction made — that's what I do.

1,000+

Participants

400+

Newsletters

90+

Governance
Meetings

$50K+

On-chain
Volume

65+

Repos

2

Festivals
Produced

2022

BS Electrical Engineering, RIT

Led $1.5M robotics project — 7x throughput

2022

Entered Web3 in the bear market

“The people still building were serious”

2023

Founded The ZAO

Creator infrastructure for independent artists

2024

ZAO-Palooza & ZAO-Chella

22 artists. Live on-chain music battles

2025

300+ newsletters. WaveWarZ $50K+

90+ fractal governance meetings

2026

ZAO OS + ZAO Stock

Festival planned for Ellsworth, Maine

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Portfolio

The Work

The ZAO

Impact organization bringing ownership back to independent artists. Community infrastructure, fractal governance, creator tools — all open source.

1,000+ participants 90+ governance meetings MIT licensed

thezao.com

ZAO OS

Farcaster social client for music communities. Encrypted messaging, 9-platform music player, governance tools.

zaoos.com

WaveWarZ

Onchain music prediction market on Solana. Artists battle, fans trade.

$50K+ volume

wavewarz.com

ZAO Festivals

IRL events at crypto conferences. ZAO-Palooza (NYC), ZAO-Chella (Miami).

2 festivals · 22 artists

zaofestivals.com

Let's Talk About Ethereum

Weekly podcast on the Ethereum ecosystem.

pods.media

Daily Newsletter

400+ editions of build-in-public documentation.

paragraph.com

Testimonials

What people are saying

Zaal helped build and scale WaveWarZ to over $60k+ in volume with a completely new music model, over 1.2k followers on X in a few months, and organized and hosted our first in real life WaveWarZ battle. Without Zaal WaveWarZ would not be dominating Web 3 Music the way it is now. This is your GUY.

Hurric4n3Ike @hurric4n3ike

I have been connecting with Zaal since 2022 and he has been creating spaces for communications where to coordinate which has helped me to share my journey at the same time I learn from others, which has created positive weekly bridges where to align and give and receive information and opportunities.

Jose Cabrera @joseacabrerav

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