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The Light Underground - Day 1

Building a shared creative universe of the Luminary, open to all.

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AI can help us write faster, draw better, imagine more—but the real magic still happens when people come together to shape something bigger than themselves.

Luminary is an open-world storytelling experiment. A universe anyone can build into through characters, tools, artifacts, parables, or plotlines. You can sketch a fragment, drop in a strange idea, or build out an entire world inside the world. 

It’s not creativity by committee. it’s a playground for small teams and solo creators to chase strong creative visions that others can build around.

How it works

For this first week, there is a round going. And there will be a Cura leaderboard.

But here there are no “winners.” The goal is rewarding high quality participation of all types, including:

  • Posting any sort of pitches in the /luminary channel.

  • High quality responses to others posts.

  • Minting your ideas as NFTs

    • Mint any way you like. I recommend highlight, as a limited edition or timed open edition, since it displays well on Farcaster.

    • You can choose how much you want to share with Luminaries.base.eth to help support the effort. Over half will be swapped to $luminary. (or you can send to 0x896ca605f8d0FfBcFdC086EB55C3F12F22Aec80d and over half will automatically be swapped).

Why CC0?

The Luminary is an open myth — a story meant to be expanded, remixed, and reimagined by anyone.

Learn more about CC0, and why the Luminary is CC0.