**[Vitalik Releases Original Novel "Snowmoon" Under GPL v3 License]** BlockBeats News, September 27: Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin announced today that his original novel *Snowmoon* has been completed, consisting of 32 chapters. The novel is set in a speculative sci-fi world, depicting a society heavily reliant on cryptography and decentralized governance. The story focuses on ideological conflicts between societies such as Veridia and the Arctic Empire, incorporating elements like zero-knowledge proofs, quadratic voting, privacy technologies, and content-based taxation mechanisms. It weaves in themes of mechanism design and digital sovereignty, which have long been areas of interest for Vitalik. The work is released under the GPL v3 license. Vitalik stated that adaptations into derivative works such as films or animations are permitted, but the production pipeline (including AI prompts, scripts, and other non-standard materials) must also be open-sourced. He clarified that all text was written by himself, with AI assistance used only for spell-checking, grammar corrections, consistency validation, and web formatting. He added the note: *"Snowmoon was written with love."* [Original Link]