Voxel Foundation Formed
I’m pleased to announce today that Voxelus is endowing a new Voxel Foundation to expand its outreach, engagement and impact throughout VR communities globally, including universities and gamers across the world. As a vital first step, we are contributing 5 million voxels to this cause and announcing the first of several well-regarded leaders who will be joining our team: Gavin Knight, who will become community director, effective immediately.
Below you will find more information and the press release.
Voxel Foundation Created to Expand Usage, Adoption of Digital Assets for Virtual Reality
Voxelus Endows Voxel Foundation with 5 Million Voxel Grant; Names Martin Repetto, Foundation Chairman; Gavin Knight as Community Director and Jim Blasko, Technical Director
(Mountain View and Buenos Aires, May 18, 2016) — Voxelus (www.voxelus.com), the world’s first VR content creation platform and marketplace, has announced that it will fund a Voxel Foundation (voxel.foundation) to expand the use and adoption of its revolutionary in-game cryptocurrency, the Voxel.
The Voxel Foundation will be initially endowed with a grant of 5 million Voxels, with up to an additional 10 million Voxels in future years to support its mission, according to Voxelus CEO Martin Repetto. Among the Foundation’s goals will be expanding the robust cryptocurrency to work with a variety of networks, games, VR platforms and entertainment content providers, brands and advertisers, as well as to seed its adoption in universities, VR enthusiast groups, and gaming/VR enthusiasts globally.
Two major areas of focus will be universities, where the next generation of content creators are being trained, since they will be responsible for the first wave of VR content over the next decade as it become a dominant form of entertainment, and users in countries with no access to traditional financial markets, including Latin America and Asia, where gaming is popular but millions of users have no easy ways of purchasing digital assets online.
“Since our extremely well-received launches of the Voxelus Creator and Marketplace, it has become clear to us that our core game developers should now concentrate on building out those platforms and our cryptocurrency team should have the structure of a foundation to expand the Voxel to new markets,” said Repetto.
Repetto will serve as executive chairman of the Foundation, as well as liaison to the Voxelus platform. Voxel core developer Jim Blasko, Las Vegas, will serve as technical director for the Foundation and will recommend technical needs and opportunities, as well as oversee the integration of additions to the codebase.
Joining this team is cryptocurrency veteran, Gavin Knight, of Mountain View, CA, who will take on the role of community director, responsible for outreach and education to the VR, education, gaming, technology, advertising and cryptocurrency communities. Knight is an experienced technology marketer and business development executive who has been involved in bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies since 2012, holding positions with Bitcoin.com, BitAngels, and CEX.IO. He is also an advisor to bitcoin-gold exchange, Vaultoro, and a co-founder of the bitcoin lending service, Credible Friends. Other regional directors will be named as they are chosen.
The Voxel Foundation’s primary mission will be to engage in a global developer outreach to help create new assets, APIs and applications to connect the Voxel blockchain to the $100 billion gaming industry and $800 billion global entertainment market. To this end, it will open up its currently closed-source GitHub (shared with exchanges and partners to date) for any interested developer globally. It will also hold a series of contests and bounties to encourage development of a wide array of applications that will leverage the digital asset-backed nature of Voxels, as well as engage in outreach to VR clubs, universities and other relevant associations, culminating in an annual developer and content creator conference.
Voxels are the first in-game cryptocurrency, initially created to serve as a way for the world’s 2.5 billion unbanked to participate in the explosive global growth of virtual reality and multiplayer online gaming. Voxel raised $500,000 in its initial crowdsale, which ended in December 2015. It trades on Bittrex, Poloniex, Livecoin and Uphold under the symbol VOX.
About Voxelus and the Voxel Foundation
Founded in 2015, Voxelus is a revolutionary platform that allows anyone to create Virtual Reality games, experiences and virtual spaces without writing a line of code. The platform consists of Voxelus Creator, a 3D design app for PC and Mac; Voxelus Viewer, which works on desktop PCs, Oculus Rift and Samsung VR devices; and the Voxelus Marketplace, which allows creators to sell and user to buy VR content and games for the Voxelus ecosystem, using the unique Voxel in-game cryptocurrency.
The Voxel Foundation was formed in May 2016 to expand the mission for the highly secure, asset-backed cryptocurrency by opening it up to global developers and content creators to develop new applications, APIs and assets on top of the Voxel, as well as to expand its adoption globally.
