
John Forfar
AI Engineer at OwnX · Melbourne, Australia · Davao, Philippines
I build sovereign local AI: AI that runs on hardware you own instead of someone else’s cloud. And I teach thousands of developers how to run it themselves.
What I have built
MiroFish Research
41,962 views on the demoMy fork of the open-source MiroFish: a 10,000-agent prediction engine that runs a structured, multi-stage debate over macro events — oil, commodities, geopolitics — and shows its working. Feature-for-feature parity with a $50/mo terminal, running on hardware you own.
openmesh-cli
The `om` CLI: deploy, expose, observe and update a sovereign app on an Xnode with EVM wallet auth. The happy path is four commands.
Gamerplex & Contention Markets
11 programs, 170+ E2E testsOn-chain skill arcade and a game-agnostic pari-mutuel settlement protocol on Solana, with permissionless resolution and an open standard for permanent game history. Submitted to the Solana hackathons — Grizzlython and Colosseum Frontier.
Xnode TPM attestation
Remote attestation for sovereign compute: a seven-step quote / seal / unseal / credential-activation flow that proves a real app produced a real output on a real, unmodified machine.
On YouTube

Can You Run a NEAR Validator at Home?
Ten days running a NEAR testnet node on my own box, and what becoming a validator would actually take.

No Subscription Needed: The OwnOS App Store
30+ open source apps that replace cloud subscriptions, running on my Own1 at home.

Rebuilding Every App So It's Free: OwnOS on Own1
Websites, local AI inference, images and voices, all hosted on a box I own.
Latest posts

I Put 9 AI Agent Engines on One Box With Zero Cloud - Which One Actually Finishes the Job?

I put a team of 8 AI employees on one small box and ran them overnight

30+ Open Source Apps That Kill Your Subscriptions - The OwnOS App Store!

I Built and Hosted a Website From My Home Box With No Subscription!
22 Oct 2026
Gamerplex Sovereign World Kit - My Colosseum Crypto World Fair Submission!
13 Oct 2026
I taught 80+ students to run their own AI agent, with the Wi-Fi off
27 Aug 2026
No Prize at Colosseum? The Players Still Showed Up!
14 Jul 2026
I Rebuilt My AI Research Swarm to Run 100% on My Laptop!
31 May 2026
Don't Worry Designers! I Tested Claude Design a Day After Launch
22 Apr 2026
Web3 Gaming is Dead? I Built a Chess Game That Can't Die!
5 Apr 2026
Deploy an AI Agent Swarm to Analyse Anything - MiroFish Research Walkthrough!
29 Mar 2026
MiroFish Goes Fully Local, Liberati is Live and a Lifetime Giveaway!
27 Mar 2026
Can a Swarm of AI Agents Predict the Future? I Ran MiroFish Locally to Find Out!
18 Mar 2026
$50 Million Reasons Why Markiplier's Iron Lung is a Win for Every Indie Creator!
4 Mar 2026
My OpenClaw Bot Built an Entire Hackathon Project - And I Didn't Write a Line of Code!
11 Feb 2026
I Gave OpenClaw Its Own VM - Is This the 24/7 AI Assistant We Were Promised?
3 Feb 2026
FREE COURSE - Getting Started in Web3
11 Jan 2026
CURSOR CANCELLED - SAVING $240 PER YEAR !
27 Dec 2025
Hack Node India Winner Announcements
21 Dec 2025
Geeks on a Beach Philippines Podcast - Open Source AI
18 Dec 2025JOIN THE LIBERATI
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