Lamina1 was started by Neal Stephenson and Peter Vessenes.
Lamina1 was started by Neal Stephenson and Peter Vessenes.
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Neal Stephenson’s Lamina1 launches Layer 1 ecosystem fund

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Lamina1, the Layer 1 blockchain company started by Snow Crash author Neal Stephenson, has launched its Lamina1 Ecosystem Fund (L1EF) on venture platform AngelList.

The company cofounded by crypto veteran Peter Vessenes wants to help usher in the metaverse (a term coined by Stephenson in his 1992 novel Snow Crash) with the help of blockchain technology. It’s also holding the Open Metaverse Conference in February.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.