
John Forfar
AI Engineer at OwnX · Melbourne, Australia · Philippines
I build 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

Lost Colosseum Hackathon — Shipping to Solana Seeker Anyway
Losing a hackathon is not a reason to stop shipping. Sovereign game dev, continued.

100% Local AI Agent Research — No Middleman
A full research agent stack running on my own hardware, no API keys anywhere.

Predict Anything with 10,000+ Agents — MiroFish Demo
Ten thousand agents debating oil prices against real-world events. The channel’s most-watched build.
Latest posts

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!

Gamerplex Sovereign World Kit - My Colosseum Crypto World Fair Submission!
10/13/2026
I taught 80+ students to run their own AI agent, with the Wi-Fi off
8/27/2026
No Prize at Colosseum? The Players Still Showed Up!
7/14/2026
I Rebuilt My AI Research Swarm to Run 100% on My Laptop!
5/31/2026
Don't Worry Designers! I Tested Claude Design a Day After Launch
4/22/2026
Web3 Gaming is Dead? I Built a Chess Game That Can't Die!
4/5/2026
Deploy an AI Agent Swarm to Analyse Anything - MiroFish Research Walkthrough!
3/29/2026
MiroFish Goes Fully Local, Liberati is Live and a Lifetime Giveaway!
3/27/2026
Can a Swarm of AI Agents Predict the Future? I Ran MiroFish Locally to Find Out!
3/18/2026
$50 Million Reasons Why Markiplier's Iron Lung is a Win for Every Indie Creator!
3/4/2026
My OpenClaw Bot Built an Entire Hackathon Project - And I Didn't Write a Line of Code!
2/11/2026
I Gave OpenClaw Its Own VM - Is This the 24/7 AI Assistant We Were Promised?
2/3/2026
FREE COURSE - Getting Started in Web3
1/11/2026
CURSOR CANCELLED - SAVING $240 PER YEAR !
12/27/2025
Hack Node India Winner Announcements
12/21/2025
Geeks on a Beach Philippines Podcast - Open Source AI
12/18/2025
IBA College of Mindanao - AI & Web3 Careers - Open Source AI
12/18/2025JOIN THE LIBERATI
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