Yes I've heard about Virie or shall I say, I've read a lot about it lately. It seems to be pretty promising. With its own blockchain, distributed exchange network and Escrow system, it looks a lot safer and fraud free. It also looks like a pretty good investment because while you buy the coins, you also continuously support the project of creating the virtual world. And here's more, their doing the crowdfunding because they don't want to sell the project to any big corporations to avoid falling under any avaricious organizations hence once you invest on it, automatically, you get to be a "shareholder" of the future virtual world. If you want to read more about it, here's an article I found earlier today: https://www.annerainwater.net/blog/virie-s-crowdfunding-campaign