An independent adaptation of Snowmoon by Vitalik Buterin
A country from Snowmoon, on screen.
Everyone watches the same world. Viewers can suggest what happens in scenes that haven't been made yet, and the story follows the book.
- Chapters 1–3 in production
- Live sessions not scheduled yet
Production test 01 · 64 seconds
Chapter 1 · Meldan
The footpath and the sky bridge
Production test 01 Chapter 1 · 64 seconds · one continuous take
Our first internal test. It isn't the finished film: the cut at 0:41 and a repeated drone shot before it still need work.
Live time
0:00left on the shared clock
All viewers share one clock. Anyone can add minutes, and the stream pauses when the clock reaches zero.
Payments go to the Veridia Live project wallet and pay for generating the stream. They aren't refundable and don't buy tokens or a stake in the project. Network fees are far lower on BNB Chain than on Ethereum.
How the test was made
Each line is marked by where it comes from. Select a moment to jump to it.
- From the bookQuoted from Chapter 1 of Snowmoon.
- DramatizedWritten for the screen. Not in the book.
The first three chapters
We're starting at the beginning of the book.
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Test available
Chapter 1
Meldan, Veridia
3724 Snowmoon 3
Gladias, an acolyte of the Order of Steering, crosses the city: a footpath through the trees, a sky bridge, a building he's asked to rate for its aesthetics tax, a concert that goes wrong, and dinner at home.
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Chapter 2
Pafogai Du, Dzego
3724 Snowmoon 5
Two students, Fin and Zei, walk through an electronics street to a hidden classroom. Gladias doesn't appear in this chapter.
In production -
Chapter 3
Meldan, Veridia
3724 Snowmoon 8
Back in Meldan. An old friend, a new privacy robe, posters for Greater Plum Harbor, and a meeting behind a curtain.
In production
The world
Veridia is a country. Meldan is its capital.
In Snowmoon, ideas about privacy and governance show up in ordinary life: in what people wear, the streets they walk through, and the small decisions they make during the day.
When a drone passes overhead, Gladias's watch uses a zero-knowledge protocol to confirm it is a safe toy. He is asked to rate a building, and his vote helps set its aesthetics tax. Emerald, the AI on his hand device, talks in his ear as he walks.
Gladias's look and voice were designed for this production. The project emblem is our own design, not one described in the novel.
How Veridia Live works
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One shared stream
Everyone watches the same unfolding world, so there's one history to talk about.
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Suggestions act on what's next
A suggestion can change a scene before it's generated. Once a scene is on screen, it stays in the shared history.
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The book leads
Characters and events follow Snowmoon. The open choices are how a moment unfolds and what the camera lingers on.
About Veridia Live
Veridia Live is an independent adaptation of Snowmoon, a novel by Vitalik Buterin. It isn't an official project of the author or of Ethereum.
The video and voices are generated with AI. Book lines are quoted from the published text; lines written for the screen are marked as dramatized wherever we show them.
Source and license
The novel is published at vitalik.eth.limo/snowmoon and, per the author's page, released under the GPL v3. Quoted passages come from Chapter 1.
About the production test
The 64-second test was recorded on 27 September 2026 as one continuous generated take, with one viewer suggestion applied part-way through. Known issues: the transition around 0:41, a repeated drone and a floating checkmark before it, and lip movement that we haven't reviewed yet.