Popular NFT collector “punk6529” presented an ambitious open Metaverse initiative aimed at attracting 100 million people. The initiative, nicknamed “OM,” is self-funded and intends to be an open platform produced and shared by the community. The project’s overall goal is to establish ten self-governing cities, each with a maximum population of 10 million people.
1/ Introducing OM
Buckle up, this is going to be long, but fun.
If you are new to long tweetstorms, you have to click “show replies” every 30th tweet to see the rest pic.twitter.com/Lqm10xWho0
— 6529 (@punk6529) April 14, 2022
The first city’s museum sector (Genesis City) was opened in alpha mode earlier today, with punk6529 boasting to their 323,200 Twitter followers that it may have “the most high-end art NFTs ever displayed in one place”.
4/ What is this?
This is the alpha version of the first district (the “6529 Museum District”) of the first city (“Genesis City”) of OM*
* What is OM? (wait a couple of tweets)
— 6529 (@punk6529) April 14, 2022
A promotional video for OM features a large number of NFTs from well-known projects such as CryptoPunks, Tyler Hobbs’ Fidenza collection, Bored Ape Yacht Club, and Art Blocks. At this point, there are 2000 NFTs on display, all of which belong to punk6529 or project team members. New users, on the other hand, will be able to “load” their NFTs into OM’s galleries.
The NFT proponent stated that they do not intend to collect fees or raise funds through crowdfunding at this time since they want to provide a functional product before scaling up through investment. Anyone can join and construct in the alpha at this point, as long as their “ideal matches” those of the museum district.
To celebrate the beginning of OM I just took and minted a photo from the highest building of the #6529MuseumDistrict (inspired by @DrifterShoots). This is truly amazing, thank you for creating this. @punk6529 @6529er #OM #openmetaverse pic.twitter.com/hpRbIMgVzn
— G9ralt (@G9ralt) April 14, 2022
“I do not want your ETH, I want your input on how to design OM. I collect in public, I invest in public and we are going to build OM in public together. “
They added:
“The fundamental governance model of OM is at the district level: districts can either be ‘developed’ or ‘open’. 6529 is going to develop the 6529 Museum District, for example. Others can develop others. Others can be free-for-all experimental spaces. “
According to punk6529, the museum district features 25 operational buildings in the main square, as well as an additional 2000 structures that have yet to be activated.
“Each building can house between 1 and 100 spaces, so this district type can easily host 100,000 citizens,” punk6529 explained.
The NFT collector also shared their thoughts on an open metaverse, stating that they foresee OM with “no one party in charge.” A Metaverse where you don’t have to worry about ‘who owns what and do you agree with them?’
“This is not so shocking, humans have accomplished this before. There is not one human being in charge of: email, or HTML, or TCP/IP, or Bitcoin, or ERC-721. “
— Michael Sidofsky (@mindzeye) April 15, 2022
To expand beyond “ETH/crypto degens,” punk6529 observes that the project must be economical, user-friendly, and provide a gateway to the real world in order to flourish and attract a general audience.
If all proceeds as planned, OM will enter public beta in June or July if the Metaverse draws enough people and the technology can handle future development and vast spaces.
