The ZAO - Team Profile

Candy

ZAO Co-Founder, WaveWarZ Co-Founder. Marketing, design, and agentic automation. ZID 2 - the second ZAO member ever issued an ID.

Identity

Full name: Samantha Denton-Kinney

Handle: CandyToyBox

ENS: CandyToyBox.eth

ZID: 2 (second ZAO ID ever issued, after Zaal's ZID 1)

Location: New York, United States

Education: Bachelor of Business Administration, The City College of New York

ZAO Roles

ZAO Co-Founder - Alongside Zaal Panthaki and Hurric4n3Ike

WaveWarZ Co-Founder - Marketing, Design, Agentic Automation (co-founded 2023)

ZAO Stock - Design + Backup Support: visual design, materials, branding, sponsorship outreach

Technical Work

Owns all WaveWarZ development repositories on GitHub. 16 repositories, all WaveWarZ-focused, with 557 contributions in the past year.

Key projects: wavewarz-intelligence (analytics dashboard), wavewarz-base (Base L2 smart contracts in Solidity/Foundry with 8/8 tests passing), analytics-wave-warz (charts dashboard), wavewarz-merch-shop (Agentic Merch Shop)

Writes the smart contracts for WaveWarZ's multi-chain expansion on Base L2.

Web3 & Community

Student $LOANZ Creator - Created the $LOANZ token on Base (launched February 2025 on Flaunch.gg, sponsored ZAO-CHELLA)

Web3 Academy DAO Operator - Member of the Writers Guild, runs the Web3 Academy DAO DOers Newsletter on Substack

Sponsorship Admin - Impact3.co (Web3 Product & Marketing Studio, sister to Milk Road) since October 30, 2023

CC0 Art & Design - Creates open-source graphics for ZAO and WaveWarZ ecosystems

Writing & Thought

Published 8 articles on Medium (2023) covering Web3 education for creators, digital identity, memes in marketing, on-chain talent shows, ERC-6551 smart contracts, and social finance.

Platform Status (2026-07-10)

Personal site: candytoybox.com now live (SSL issue resolved as of May 2026)

WaveWarZ ecosystem: Active - 499.21 SOL volume, 1,205 battles as of refresh

Fractal position: Ranked 2nd on the very first ZAO Fractal Respect Game (Fractal Day 1)

About this profile: All information sourced from doc 229 (ZAO Member Profiles, 2026-07-10).

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