Neal Stephenson’s Lamina1 partners with Qualcomm, HTC, Mira, Interverse and Croquet
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Seeking partners for its blockchain tech for the open metaverse, Neal Stephenson’s Lamina1 has teamed up with five tech companies.
Stephenson, the author of Snow Crash and the person who coined the term “metaverse” 30 years ago, believes that blockchain can provide the “economic rails” to incentivize developers to create the open metaverse. And Lamina1 is a blockchain infrastructure startup that he started with crypto veteran Peter Vessenes to help keep the metaverse from being controlled by walled gardens.
The partners include Qualcomm, HTC, Mira, Interverse and Croquet. Lamina1 is joining Qualcomm’s Snapdragon Spaces XR platform. Lamina1 said these collaborations mark a significant milestone for the “batteries included” blockchain, offering new tools to improve performance, interoperability and user experience in the open metaverse ahead of Lamina1’s mainnet launch of its blockchain network.
Lamina1 launched its testnet in January and is nearing mainnet launch in summer 2023. It chose the five companies within the emerging tech, creative experiences, and gaming spaces in its ongoing effort to offer the most effective and innovative tools for builders, developers, and storytellers looking to create in the open metaverse.
Each partner is now an official member of the Lamina1 Early Access Program (EAP) – an initiative supporting developers, researchers, and organizations as they develop, test, and refine their projects on Lamina1.
Lamina1 and Mira, a hyper-realistic experiential metaverse platform, are officially partnering to develop novel approaches that leverage blockchain tech (e.g. non-fungible tokens, or
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