Punk6529 is living the future, today. At least, the future as imagined by the pseudonymous non-expendable token collector, where everyone has a digital avatar that glides into the metaverse as easily as a bird flies through the air.

“Here I am running around like a cartoon punk, seamlessly participating in communities and societies like the ones I live in in the physical world,” he told CoinDesk in an interview. Simply “participating” in the metaverse is an understatement, considering the work Punk6529 does championing, writing, and building this new digital frontier.

This year, Punk6529, who takes his name from an eponymous CryptoPunk NFT, launched his own NFT fund, NFT museum, and began work on what he calls the Open Metaverse, a blueprint for an online city. Nevertheless,…