April 26, 2022 – Today, theVERSEverse, a women-founded NFT gallery dedicated to celebrating poems as works of art, is thrilled to announce its first major grant, awarded by the Tezos Foundation to support literary innovations in web3. The award will help fund a series of planned initiatives to raise awareness of the potential for literature on the blockchain, and empower theVERSEverse to evolve its virtual home at theVERSEverse.com.
Founded in late 2021 by the writers Ana Maria Caballero, Kalen Iwamoto and Sasha Stiles, theVERSEverse has become a leading destination for poetry in the metaverse and is among the first literary projects to receive funding for advances in the crypto realm. Having built on Tezos since launch, the gallery will now deepen its Tezos tech integrations and community engagements in order to scale its mission to empower writers via blockchain, enable meaningful, next-gen poetic experimentation, and bring mainstream readers into the metaverse.
“With their cost efficiency, minimal eco-impact, and ease of use, proof-of-stake protocols present exhilarating opportunities for writers experimenting with metaversal literature. That’s why theVERSEverse has been committed to exploring the future of literature via Tezos since launch. We are very grateful for the ongoing interest from the global Tezos community, and are honored to receive essential support from the Tezos Foundation at this pivotal moment for writers, editors, publishers and readers on the blockchain.”
–theVERSEverse
Empowered by a grass-roots community-driven movement, Tezos has emerged as the de facto art-driven NFT blockchain of all art genres. By leveraging the energy-efficient Tezos blockchain technology’s versatile and infinite possibilities, and the low transaction gas fees, theVERSEverse will contribute to opening new doors to explore the literary art of poetry in novel creative forms for new and established poets around the globe.
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About theVERSEverse:
Founded in late 2021 by Ana Maria Caballero, Kalen Iwamoto and Sasha Stiles, theVERSEverse is a literary collective and cross-chain NFT gallery where poems are works of art. As the leading destination for poetry in the metaverse, our mission is to empower writers via blockchain technology, by pairing acclaimed poets with crypto-native artists to create media-rich, immersive 1/1 NFTs, pushing the boundaries of poetry in the digital, web3 age, and enabling writers around the globe to experiment with cutting-edge technological tools, such as AI generative text and algorithmic verse. Learn more: theVERSEverse.com / @theVERSEverse
About Tezos:
Tezos is smart money, redefining what it means to hold and exchange value in a digitally connected world. A self-upgradable and energy-efficient Proof of Stake blockchain with a proven track record, Tezos seamlessly adopts tomorrow's innovations without network disruptions today. For more information, please visit www.tezos.com.
About the Tezos Foundation:
The Tezos Foundation is a Swiss foundation, supervised by the Swiss Federal Foundation Supervisory Authority which is part of the Swiss Federal Department of Home Affairs. The Tezos Foundation’s purpose is the promotion and development of new technologies and applications, especially in the fields of new open and decentralized software architectures including the promotion and development of the Tezos protocol and related technologies. For more information, please visit https://tezos.foundation
Media contacts:
For theVERSEverse: Sasha Stiles, [email protected], 917.667.4339
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