# Lamina

By [Yash Gupta](https://paragraph.com/@yash-gupta) · 2023-03-20

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Lamina1 is building a Layer 1 blockchain, interoperating tools, and decentralized services optimized for the Open Metaverse – providing communities with infrastructure, not gatekeepers, to build a more immersive internet.

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, a robust generalized blockchain that delivers the industry’s most scalable and environmentally-efficient chain for managing digital assets to date. This starting point provides Lamina1 with a flexible architecture and an extendable platform to support our goals in data storage, interoperability, integration incentives, carbon-negative operation, messaging, privacy, high-scale payments and identity.

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. Here’s what you can expect at Mainnet:

*   Open Metaverse Data
    
*   Carbon Token Staking
    
*   Cross-chain Integration
    
*   High-scale Payments
    
*   OpenID Connect
    
*   EVM Quality of Life Improvements
    

For more information about Lamina1 and our vision for Open Metaverse builders & creators, visit us at [https://www.lamina1.com/](https://www.lamina1.com/).

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*Originally published on [Yash Gupta](https://paragraph.com/@yash-gupta/lamina)*