Snow Crash author Neal Stephenson is building a free metaverse | MetaSavvy

Snow Crash author Neal Stephenson is building a free metaverse called Lamina1.

The project describes itself as a free metaverse aimed at helping get artists and other value creators paid properly for their work, helping the environment (Lamina1 will be provably carbon negative), and seeing a truly Open Metaverse get built instead of seeing the Metaverse vision co-opted by monopolies.

In an interview with Decrypt, Stephenson and Lamina1 co-founder Peter Vessenes, a crypto pioneer and co-founder of the Bitcoin Foundation, elaborated a bit on the project.

Lamina1 is a purpose-built blockchain for building the open metaverse, Vessenes explained. We're going to have all the facilities of a full layer one [blockchain] to help support and encourage the creators who want to build with us. That is my and Neal's strategy—align everything around getting the best thing built and getting everybody all the tools they need to build what they want.

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