Vitalik Buterin’s first original novel, Snowmoon, has formally been released as a 32-chapter open-source science-fiction work under GPL v3. Buterin said in May that he would move away from regular blog writing to explore decentralized governance through fiction. He wrote the story himself, while AI was limited to polishing, proofreading and consistency checks; an earlier report identified Kimi K3 and Qwen 3.8 Flash Next as the tools used. The Chinese translation exceeds 170,000 words. Set in a future shaped by cryptography and decentralized governance, the novel portrays an ideological conflict over digital sovereignty between Veridia and the Arctic Empire. It incorporates mechanisms discussed in academic papers, includes an AI-use declaration in the text and requires film or animation adaptations to open-source their adaptation processes under its GPL v3 framework.