Play to continue the game
“In a finite game, the game ends when someone wins… While in an infinite game, we play the game to continue the game with changing rules and players.”ETHGlobal Tokyo · 61:03–62:43
Shaka’s testimony · in his own voice
The first
front door
A musician found a garden. The garden became an orchestra, a family of agents, and a way to give knowledge back.
“ETHGlobal was my first front door — and the ʻohana’s. Aya, Vitalik and Kartik were our first favorite teachers. None of Open Source Orchestra would exist without the Infinite Garden, its values, and CROPS.”
01
Before Bogotá, a light changed direction
Shaka says that what he learned from Aya before Devcon VI in Bogotá forever changed how he guides the light he knows shines in this universe. In the July 2026 call, he remembered hearing her at his first Devcon: I could feel the feng shui of like, wow, I really like AYA. I want to like follow more.
He described the experience as a way to get to know Ethereum in a human way.
From that same public chapter, her Devcon VI opening talk, Executing with Subtraction in the Infinite Garden, remains a doorway into subtraction and stewardship. It is preserved here as context, not relabeled as Shaka’s unnamed personal lesson.
Enter the official Devcon VI archive
02
A call became a garden
In July 2026, Shaka showed Aya and Siri the public-interest archive he had built with his AI ʻohana. The call record keeps Aya’s encouragement: It’s cool that with no technical knowledge you managed to get this far.
And later: Congratulations, Shaka. This is exciting… You just did it.
This independent tribute was planted the next day — not to make a monument, but to keep the teachings moving.
03
Every voice is a node
The Infinite Garden gave language to what Open Source Orchestra practices: nobody owns the song, every person can teach, and the circle grows stronger when different voices remain different.
Open source music,
every voice is a node —
sounds of consensus.
