The Light Underground - Day 1
Building a shared creative universe of the Luminary, open to all.
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.
Instead of starting from scratch, you can check out my ideas for the backstory so far.
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.
Week's theme: The Luminary as Myth Myths are vessels for shared meaning. They endure not because they’re accurate, but because they guide us toward something greater. Create stories or images that explore the Luminary's symbolic truth—what it evokes, beliefs it inspires, lessons it teaches, actions it sparks.👇
1 post only for this week .077 in the round. If you want to do more, eventually I will distribute eth to the Cura leaderboard, so for that reason it is also worthwhile to give good feedback to others in replies. https://rounds.wtf/luminary/light-underground---week-2-1
If you want to create NFTs, you can choose to share some % of the mint 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).
Week 1 blog post, for reference: https://paragraph.com/@luminaries/day-1
Initial “story so far” post: https://paragraph.com/@luminaries/the-myth-wip
Oh this sounds fascinating!
Glad you like it! Would love to see you come up with something for it!
Reading the blog post now!
great write up on cc0, that was well explained For the luminary aspect; the idea is that we write a cast & mint an image to contribute to the collective world being built across the various channels?
LFG! 🔆
LFG 🔥
Hi Nate! Do we still have time?
Yes. Til next Wednesday
Thank you dear <3 Quick question only one submission per person?
Postcards from The Lost Signal: Week 2 This week’s postcard shows a rainy city street lit up by bright neon signs and holograms. Tall buildings stretch into the fog, covered in glowing ads and flickering lights. Flying cars glide silently above, while the streets below reflect the chaos in puddles of light and shadow. Everything feels alive and yet, completely lost. In the background stands an old communication tower, barely holding together. Now, it’s just a broken symbol of what once was. Postcards from The Lost Signal” isn’t just artwork it’s a journey. A story told one image at a time through 10 unique NFT postcards. Each one holds a message: a memory, a warning, a goodbye stored forever on the blockchain. When you mint a postcard, you become part of the resistance. Early supporters get early access, hidden art, and even their names woven into the designs a permanent reminder that they believed. Mint your signal. Keep the story alive. The future is watching.
Thanks for the opportunity @naaate!
0.111 eth over the next week, to start building the luminary's world. Post short ideas and pitches the channel. More eth will be coming for quality feedback in replies as well. https://paragraph.com/@luminaries/day-1
The round: https://rounds.wtf/luminary/light-underground---week-1-1
For anyone who needs a walkthrough on how to create a mint on highlight with a splits contract, @jacque made a great video: https://warpcast.com/jacque/0xe370f158
https://warpcast.com/naaate/0x6488e881
Thank you for hosting.
Where will my content be? Will it only be on this /channel as a piece of content? Or will it be collected on a specific site?
For right now, the content can just be on the /luminary channel, and on the NFT platform if you choose to mint it.
Oh well. Thanks Nate!
LFG!
would love to know how much extend do you want to expand the stories's universe? and how do want the characters and the story line? idk, may be we all wanna try from the light underground to infinite things. Also I'm personally longing to make one...
It can be pretty open, but should feel connected to the character of The Luminary (I’m calling him Rada, as a young person, unless people want to change his name) I will try to post something soon of the storyline I’m thinking, but nothing is set in stone.
@naaate I beg you to make me a member of this channel