Women-Led NFT platform theVERSEverse receives Tezos grant to drive literary innovation in Web3

theVERSEverse, a women-led literally collective and NFT gallery founded in 2021, has secured its first major grant as it seeks to expand its innovative works into Web3.

Announced on Tuesday, the grant by Tezos Foundation, a Swiss-based and regulated organization helping to build the Tezos ecosystem and other blockchain projects.

The team at theVERSEverse says Tezos presents a crucial partner in their quest, noting the importance of using a cost-efficient and eco-friendly proof-of-stake protocol. They said in a statement:

Grant will help empower writers

theVERSEverse, which seeks to pair acclaimed poets with those in the crypto space, will use the award to fund several initiatives aimed at raising awareness about literature and the blockchain.

The platform also wants to use the grant to empower theVERSEverse community as it evolves into the de facto destination of media-rich NFTs in digital poetry.

Ana Maria Caballero, Kalen Iwamoto and Sasha Stiles say they co-founded theVERSEverse to empower literary enthusiasts and writers through blockchain technology. 

Other than blockchain, the platform also wants to help upcoming artists across the globe leverage state-of-the-art technology in other fields such as AI in their works.