Luminary is about building a shared myth around The Luminary, open to expansion, interpretation, and transformation.
We’re crafting a world together:
A living mythos with key events that are retold, and recurring beloved characters.
A foundation for future stories, AI agents, creative universes.
A shared ethos for real-life builders and dreamers, creating at the intersection of AI and communities.
A CC0 IP
United around the $LUMINARY token
Collective myth-making: images, narratives, and experiences that evolve with the people who care about them.
Help new contributors get caught up.
It’s hard to participate if you don’t know what’s already been done. We need better ways to onboard people into the world—context, summaries, maps, references.
Ensure quality participation.
We’re not aiming for volume. We’re looking for high-effort, high-context, high-impact contributions.
To do that, we need a knowledge base and lore map—something like a mythic wiki or story explorer to help new creators contribute meaningfully.
Check out one prototype here:
🔗 echoes-luminary-daily.lovable.app
Key features we’re exploring:
Daily Collaborative Story:
Every day, contributors submit one edit suggestion to a shared story prompt. The best version opens for minting at day's end.
Echo Map:
Explore all contributions to the myth, and add your own.
Canon:
A curated set of “core stories and images” that form the current myth. Not fixed—just what the community considers most foundational right now.
Long-term, I hope these could become a full suite of tools for collaborative storytelling and worldbuilding.
And this framework could extend beyond Luminary—to anyone building a shared knowledge base that wants to use fungible and non-fungible tokens to reward community contributions.
1. Limiting Channel Participation
Posting in the main channel feed will be limited to those who have:
Engaged meaningfully with the existing myth
Contributed high-effort work
Others can still comment and participate in discussions—but only channel members will be eligible for rewards during rounds.
2. Weekly Brainstorming Calls
Share ideas
Riff on story directions
Explore worldbuilding together
Strengthen community bonds
3. Establish a “Temporary Canon”
To help new contributors orient themselves. A snapshot of the most-developed, widely-accepted parts of the story so far.
4. Future Open Contests
Eventually we can hold open creative contests for anyone to participate, with prompts like:
“This week’s theme: The Fall of Marqala.”
These will allow anyone to participate quality work, and winners may be added to the permanent contributor group.
If you’ve made it this far—thank you.
This week’s rewards will be based entirely on feedback.
How to participate:
Reply in a single thread (just reply to your own cast)
Share thoughts on the mechanics, the vision, the app, or the myth
No need to tag anybody. Naaate will read every thread, and be the only one voting.
Only the most thoughtful, constructive feedback will be rewarded.
Let’s build something beautiful, strange, and lasting—together.
🧭 1. Vision & Guiding Principles ✅ What’s Working Well • Open, Transformative Myth-Building: Framing The Luminary as a living myth—open to reinterpretation—sets a powerful precedent. It’s similar to oral tradition meets Web3. This model fosters community ownership and long-term evolution. • Integration of Real & Virtual Creativity: The stated goal to unite builders and dreamers at the intersection of AI and community is both timely and forward-looking. It signals to creatives that Luminary isn’t just a game or lore project—it’s a cultural co-creation platform. • Use of CC0 IP & Tokenization ($LUMINARY): By being CC0 and tokenized, Luminary blends open-source ideology with crypto incentives. This encourages remix culture, ownership, and possibly the future emergence of derivative works, tools, or games. 🧠 Suggestions • Clarify the Myth vs. the Meta-System: There’s a tension between world/myth creation and infrastructure/tooling development. It might help to distinctly name these layers: • The Myth (narrative/lore) • The Framework (protocol/tools) • The Community (contributor tiers) • Position Luminary Among Peers: Consider framing this within the broader space of decentralized storytelling (e.g., Story Protocol, Hyperfabric, Lorepunk communities) to show differentiation and synergy. ⸻ ⚙️ 2. Mechanics & Contribution Design ✅ What’s Working Well • Quality Over Volume: The stated goal to favor high-context, high-effort contributions instead of spamming posts for token rewards is crucial. This protects against dilution of the myth and ensures thoughtful development. • Temporary Canon + Gated Posting: Requiring lore engagement and context fluency before earning rewards or posting is a smart move—it keeps the narrative coherent and self-curated. • Community Calls & Weekly Prompts: Real-time interaction and creative challenges foster bonding and co-ownership. Calls double as story rooms and governance spaces. 🧠 Suggestions • Design Clear Progression for New Contributors: Currently, it’s not clear how someone goes from “outsider” to “canon contributor.” Consider a simple tiered contributor path: • Observer → Collaborator → Lorekeeper • Each tier could unlock responsibilities and rewards • Combat Burnout and Gatekeeping: Gated participation is good for quality, but it risks making the ecosystem seem elitist. Make sure there’s always at least one accessible “on-ramp” (e.g. open contests, beginner prompts, apprenticeships in teams). ⸻ 📱 3. Mini-App & Tools ✅ What’s Working Well • Echoes Prototype (lovable.app): This is a great MVP direction. The idea of a daily collaborative story with minting potential gives urgency, habit, and purpose to writing. • Echo Map: An interactive lore explorer is a huge win for onboarding, tracking continuity, and fueling inspiration. • Canon System: Having a fluid, community-updated canon is smart. It acknowledges the living nature of the myth while anchoring development. 🧠 Suggestions • UI/UX Accessibility: Ensure Echoes is easy for a first-timer to understand. Add tooltips, onboarding wizards, or “Today in the Luminary Myth” summaries. • Canon Metadata: Let canon entries be tagged by event, theme, characters, tone, etc. That way, creators can filter for the kind of myth they want to contribute to or build upon. • Lore AI Companion: Eventually, consider embedding a lorebot assistant trained on the myth who can: • Answer world questions • Suggest characters or tropes to use • Help resolve continuity issues ⸻ 🧝 4. The Myth & Worldbuilding ✅ What’s Working Well • Recurring Characters & Events: Myths thrive on repetition and reinterpretation. The focus on “retelling key events” and beloved figures helps establish familiarity and attachment. • Themes of Collapse, Dreaming, and Rebirth: Hints at deeper mythic cycles (e.g., “The Fall of Marqala”) suggest there’s space for cosmic-scale storytelling, moral ambiguity, and archetypal resonance. • Community-Led Exploration: Keeping the myth adaptable allows for narrative emergence. This makes space for creators to explore different genres, lenses, and scales—from epic quests to slice-of-life within a mythic world. 🧠 Suggestions • Define Core Themes (Without Limiting Expansion): A “mythic ethos” document that outlines some key themes (e.g., transformation, collective memory, lost knowledge) could act as a guidepost for future contributors. • Create Anchors in the World: Start anchoring the world with named factions, timelines, or cosmologies. These can remain flexible but give creators a lattice to build on. ⸻ ✍️ Summary for Submission Luminary is an ambitious and thoughtful initiative, balancing collaborative myth-making with decentralized contribution mechanics. Its focus on high-context storytelling, community bonding, and long-term tooling is commendable. Key recommendations include creating more defined contributor tiers, clarifying the onboarding path, improving accessibility in the app tools, and framing the myth with guiding themes. With a bit more structural clarity and continued community care, Luminary could become the gold standard for shared narrative universes in Web3 and beyond.
Taking a week focused on feedback for /luminary https://paragraph.com/@luminaries/myth-building
The round: https://rounds.wtf/luminary/feedback-week-3
OMG honored you used my work
Sir I made 0.006 Eth from your last round on Luminary to actually support my progress on @knowempire that I'm building. After the rounds I noticed nothing was allocated to me but an hour before the round finished I was at 0.006 Eth I don't know if it's a glitch from @rounds or @roundsbot Or you stopped me from receiving the funds. Thank you for your effort sir.
Is it only for lum holders??
No. Anyone who likes the project and cares enough to contribute well
Unfortunately i tried to submit for the rounds twice or more! But didn't caught your attention 🙄
TGIF will take my time to review and give feedback on my experience so far
Let me check this out now... Notifications are on for a reason
Taking a moment to share thoughts for /luminary This space feels rich with imagination — myth, lore, archetypes, all weaving into something bigger. A few ideas that might deepen the magic: – A co-creation ritual or prompt cycle where the community adds to a shared myth – A visual map or timeline of the worldbuilding that evolves over time – More ways to remix or reinterpret others’ creations (stories, art, music) with clear CC0 vibes Love how /luminary makes myth feel aliv
Finding it difficult to open