Learn about the metaverse public chain Lamina1 launched by Stephenson, the author of "Avalanche"

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2023-04-18 08:30

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Lamina1 is a PoS public chain based on Avalanche. The founder is Stephenson, the author of the famous science fiction novel "Avalanche".

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Lamina 1 is a PoS public chain based on Avalanche. The founder is Stephenson, the author of the famous science fiction novel "Avalanche". Lamina 1 first proposed the concept of metaverse public chain. Lamina 1 was established in June 2022, released the first version of its white paper in September 2022, and publicly released its testnet to the community in January 2023.

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team member

Neal Stephenson (co-founder) is an American science fiction author best known for Snow Crash. Stephenson also served as an early employee at Blue Origin, the commercial space company owned by Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos. Later, he joined Magic Leap, an MR (mixed reality) startup that raised nearly $4 billion, where Stephenson started to get in touch with game engines. Lamina 1 is Stephenson's attempt to combine his knowledge of metaverse creation and game engines.

Peter Vessenes (co-founder) has deep roots in digital currencies, tokenization and blockchain technology. He is an early advocate and supporter of Bitcoin. He started mining in 2010, proposed the concept of a mining pool, and is considered one of the earliest pioneers of cryptocurrency. In 2012, he founded CoinLab, which is the first A venture-backed bitcoin company.

Will Carte (CTO) has ten years of experience in research and technology development, having previously worked at xx Network, a privacy-focused blockchain ecosystem founded by renowned cryptographer and digital currency inventor David Schom. He served as the company's CTO for nearly four years. Before that, he was Chief Product Officer of Elixxir, an ultra-private messaging app for the Web3 community developed by xx Network.

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investor

The investors of Lamina 1 are mainly individuals. At present, no institutional investors have invested in it, and the investment amount has not been disclosed. However, Reid Hoffman, the co-founder of LinkedIn, can be seen in the investor list.

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route map

In September 2022, Lamina 1 released the light paper. The testnet announced in January 2021 includes a web wallet. The next step will be to start the development of custom subnets and EVM (Ethereum Virtual Machine). Unity SDK will also be launched later. It will allow creators to easily incorporate the functionality of the Lamina 1 testnet into their Unity projects. Lamina 1 plans to launch the Beta test network and the main network successively in the first to third quarters of 2023.

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Lamina 1 has launched a series of NFT activities to attract more users. After connecting to the testnet wallet, users can randomly generate 5 NFTs, and users can trade the generated NFTs. Lamina also hosts a testnet NFT creator competition, with winners announced weekly.

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At the end of last year, Lamina 1 announced its ecological fund L1 EF. For developers, the fund will invest in games, fashion, music, art, NFT projects, emerging artificial intelligence, Defi, Gamefi, DeSoc, virtual machines, Layer 2 protocols, identity, data storage, data availability, privacy, payments, DAOs, marketplaces, bridges, apps, immersive experiences, and more. Lamina 1 created this fund for two reasons. First, it provides a global investor community with a direct investment path to early-stage Layer 1 projects that were not previously accessible to the general public. Second, it is a vehicle for Web3 developers to raise early capital for their Open Metaverse ventures, an important differentiator for the L1 community, as creators in this industry typically only get access after mainnet Financial support.