TREE NEWS update: Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin released his first original science-fiction novel, ‘Snowmoon’, in full. The 32-chapter work, more than 170,000 Chinese characters in translation, was written by hand with AI used only for polishing and proofreading. Set in a future world reliant on cryptography and decentralized governance, it explores ideological conflict over digital sovereignty. The novel is open-sourced under GPL v3, with its AI-use statement written into the text.
Vitalik Buterin Releases First Open-Source Sci-Fi Novel ‘Snowmoon’
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The notable move here is licensing and disclosure rather than the fiction itself: an open-source release under GPL v3, with the AI-use statement embedded in the work, treats authorship and provenance as design choices rather than afterthoughts. That lands as a test case for how crypto-native figures translate their norms around transparency and permissionless reuse into cultural production. Whether the model of hand-written text with AI limited to polishing becomes a broader convention is the open question.
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