Zuzu.log is a liquid bookmark born from a real community, aimed at knotting notes amidst vast group chats, thus weaving a collective intelligence information map. The product prototype originated from the dDAO's dAgora project cori bot, a bot that curates community essence content onto the Crossbell chain. The user flow of Zuzu.log is simple and clear: anyone can summon the bot in a chat room (telegram / discord) to immediately chain the chat content. In group chats—this fundamental unit of modern social interaction—we glimpse a vast treasure trove of community information. By refining it to its essence and storing it on a dedicated public chain for information curation, we publicly and protectively release the diverse cognition that emerges in real-time from the bottom up.
Zuzu.log arises from the community and serves the community, making it a product with a pure mission. So, what constitutes a community? A community is essentially a network woven by people. In the web0 era, people intertwined in the physical world. In the web1-2 era, people intertwined in a parallel universe split between the virtual and physical worlds. The web3 era marks a turning point: we welcome the "Great Integration" meta-century.
The underlying architecture of blockchain allows the virtual world to be pieced together into a complete continent, forming a metaverse where everything is interconnected. Meanwhile, digital institutions are now feeding back into real-world institutions, guiding us to bridge online and offline network states. This will create an unprecedented connection, where a vast network will greatly return power to the individual, thus liberating human creativity and energy. We believe that the community is the soul of the third generation of the internet.
In the spring and summer of 2023, during the co-living experiment Zuzalu initiated by Vitalik in Montenegro, a group of girls with a belief in community attempted to capture real local needs through their personal experiences. In this two-month social experiment, nothing is more moving than the connections between people. People work together, play together, and seek intimacy and trust in one steadfast embrace after another. However, the connections related to bodily perception, while romantic and profound, are fleeting. What remains are snippets of conversation aggregated in group chats, outlining all interactions. To resist the limitations of time, we want to make this experience eternal in a cyber way.
We are tired of the large and empty, money-driven yet distant blockchain. We are also weary of the higher, faster, stronger, and star-grabbing blockchain. Humanism is our starting point and will also be our endpoint. All our product imaginations stem from our understanding of humanity.
Every generation of information calls for the media of that generation. From Gutenberg's book era to the internet's webpage era, and now to the era of information intelligence, fluidity, and sovereignty brought by blockchain and artificial intelligence— as the granularity of media gradually decreases, our density of information capture has reached an unprecedented minimum unit. Group chats, a word, a symbol, any essence of social interaction, will be selected from the most basic and popular forms of interaction and displayed in a publicly transparent decentralized cyber square. In the process of deconstructing cognitive structures, knowledge no longer clusters around knowledge elites; this is a ritual of bidding farewell to the super-individual club and a battle cry against traditional data factories. We believe in the power of community co-construction, which settles in the corners of online interactions waiting to be collected and cherished. By curating high-quality information onto the blockchain, zuzu.log will form an infinite, endless, and timeless "flowing library," releasing the intellectual treasures of all individuals, becoming a community superbrain from individuals to individuals.
At the public goods hackathon co-hosted by Zuzalu and Gitcoin, zuzu.log was fortunate to win third place. This is a good start. The zuzu.log team dAgora will also conduct fundraising during the gitcoin beta round. As a public project entirely reliant on community contributors, support from the public is especially important to us.