Other great hits from the Lamina1 White Paper:

## They use the crazy easy money inspired bull run of the last market to establish the possible market:

*The Lamina1 value proposition acknowledges two considerable trends:*

> First, the accelerating pace of creation and commerce within persistent virtual worlds.
Each day, hundreds of millions of people around the globe connect online to enjoy
and invest in not only gameplay and world-building but freedom of self-expression
and social engagement within a global digital network. Worldwide, spending on virtual
goods reached an estimated $110 billion in 2021, with nearly 30% attributed to the
virtual outfitting of our virtual selves.1

> A digital Gucci Dionysus bag commanded $4,115 in Roblox native cash –– more than
the $3,400 retail value of its physical version.2 A virtual plot next to Snoop Dogg’s NFT
property in The Sandbox sold for the USD equivalent of nearly $450,0003. Meanwhile,
Fortnite generated more than $20 billion in revenue from on-platform transactions
from 2018-2021, with 77% of players making in-game purchases to enhance their
virtual selves

## Their extra special value is built for the meto verse:

> To date, no chain has been expressly designed to support the unique needs of the Metaverse.

Lamina1 approaches the Open Metaverse with a multi-pronged approach:

+ Layer 1 Blockchain
+ Metaverse-as-a-Service (MaaS)
+ Community Economic Participation and Incentives
+ Original Content

## It's a shitty Proof of Stake chain, and they use Peter V's Bitcoin OG'ness to sell it

>  our co-founder Peter Vessenes is a battle-tested veteran of crypto,
having invested in and launched billions of dollars of tokenized value since the dawn
of the cryptocurrency era. He was the founding Chairman of the Board for the Bitcoin
Foundation (2012), an organization tasked with restoring the reputation of Bitcoin
after controversy, the first to employ Bitcoin core developers for the sole purpose of
building out the blockchain, and holds several technology and cryptographic
innovations, including the patent for disambiguating conjoined Bitcoin transactions.
In short, our governance and architecture decisions are the result of rich history and
expertise.

> Lamina1 uses a **high-speed Proof-of-Stake (PoS) consensus algorithm**, customized
to support the needs of content creators –– providing provenance for creatorship and
enabling attributive and behavioral characteristics of an object to be minted,
customized and composed on-chain.

+ We chose to start with Avalanche.

## They will work upstream when they HAVE to, but plan to keep a bunch of shit private

> We intend to work with the Avalanche team pre-launch to contribute back patches to
be incorporated upstream, but anticipate that many of our features will remain only
available to Lamina1 users.

## They go after Energy Use

Lamina1 is a Proof-of-Stake chain. As such, it is orders of magnitude more energy-efficent than **previous** Proof-of-Work (PoW) chains

**And they are going to do green harder than any one else**

> Our answer to this call is to code accountability directly into Lamina1 node operation rules to ensur the chain itself requires the desired behavior. For each node operator, we will assess energy requirements and verify that each step in the PoS validation process includes retiring an appropriate number of carbon credits, tokenized on Lamina1.


## They go after Bitcoin Maxies

> Our vision of the world is not Maximalist –– instead, we envision many densely-connected Layer 1 and 2s in the Open Metaverse, built for the needs of their users and communities. 

## No shits are given about "freedom" or decentralization

> The vast majority of today’s immersive Metaverse experiences are powered by game engines, the most popular being Unity and Unreal. 

**So what are they gonna do to open that up? Truly make this the next web for the people? NOTHING!**

> To make developers’ lives easier, Lamina1 will provide feature-rich software development kits (SDKs) for these engines to make it as easy as possible to get started and be successful in integrating our blockchain into games, immersive worlds, digital twins, simulations and other content. Lamina1 will also provide the same feature set to web developers, making it straightforward to also connect immersive web experiences.

+ Oh and like totally join them on their DISCORD.