Pilot Blockchain Lamina1 Reshaping the Creator Economy

In the rapidly developing year of 2024 for AI and AIGC, content creators face unprecedented challenges. As major companies like Roblox and Meta shift their business focuses, the traditional content creation economy becomes increasingly fragile, and creators need a fairer mechanism to safeguard the true value of their creativity and labor. Lamina1, as a blockchain infrastructure designed specifically for creators, is committed to building a decentralized and sustainable content creation ecosystem for creators, driving the creator economy to new heights with its high-performance architecture and unique economic model.

The Metaverse Low and the Restructuring Demand of the Creator Economy

Since Facebook's parent company rebranded to Meta in 2021, the concept of the metaverse has exploded into the mainstream. The game creation platform Roblox became the first stock of the metaverse, attracting many tech giants to invest, and it was once regarded as the "3D internet," nearly synonymous with the "future world." However, three years later, Roblox's market value has fallen by nearly 50% from its peak, and annual losses continue to worsen; Meta has also begun shifting its focus to the AI field, marking the decline of the metaverse craze. As the bubble bursts, a truly open metaverse is gradually taking shape, urgently needing to explore new paths for the creator economy.

The current metaverse and creator economy sectors mainly face the following issues:

1. Economic return rate challenge: The development cycle and costs of metaverse projects are high, and borrowing from traditional models can easily lead to contradictions between investment and return, resulting in project delays or failures.

2. Centralized platform control: Social media platforms monetize creator content through advertisements, and the high degree of centralization leads to creators not receiving the compensation they deserve, reducing the motivation for innovation.

3. Web3 Metaverse projects are immature: Due to insufficient performance, lack of standards, and scalability, many projects find it difficult to achieve the ecological goals of decentralization and co-construction and sharing.

4. The closed loop of the creator economy is difficult to establish: existing projects have not fully considered online experiences, lacking clear creation guidelines, incentive systems, and role stratification, making it hard for the production and consumption relationship to form a closed loop.

These issues have led to a high degree of homogeneity in existing metaverse projects, and there are the following shortcomings:

• Unable to provide a high-quality online metaverse experience.
• Unable to achieve interconnection between the online world and the economic system
• Unable to establish an ecosystem that empowers users and creators, and has long-term investment value.

Injecting Multidimensional New Momentum into the Creator Economy

Lamina1 is a Layer 1 Blockchain designed for creators and developers, providing a unique architecture that offers stronger support for the creator economy, helping creators establish sustainable income models in a decentralized environment.

Decentralized infrastructure support

Lamina1 provides a stable underlying Blockchain architecture, designed specifically to support the development, display, and trading of creative works. Creators can easily put digital works on the chain and protect copyrights and distribute profits through the built-in smart contract system, greatly simplifying the process from creation to monetization.

UGC and IP Co-creation Ecology

Lamina1 encourages users to generate content ( UGC ) and co-create IP through a decentralized architecture, allowing for high freedom of content. IP holders can authorize creative freedom, providing fans with opportunities for deep participation. Creators can retain their creative intent while allowing fans to create unique content based on the existing worldview through flexible copyright management and a fan co-creation framework. This model allows the influence of IP to be fed back into the original work through fan participation, increasing the depth of dissemination and long-term value.

supports creators' autonomous economy and diversified monetization.

Lamina1 is dedicated to supporting creators in establishing independent economic systems by issuing personal NFTs, tokens, and other means to simplify the processes of publishing, sharing, and trading works, thereby constructing personalized and flexible business models. Creators can design subscription models, exclusive content unlocks, fan benefits, etc., to fully engage users and better control their sources of income.

Unique PayFi mechanism

Creators can set the payment and ownership transfer methods for their works through the PayFi feature, allowing fans to support the creation through tips; they can also choose between public and private modes for their works to ensure wide dissemination while respecting privacy.

PayFi also encourages a high-quality content ecosystem through a decentralized currency layer. Creators can profit directly from fan sponsorships and rewards, while automated copyright protection is achieved through smart contracts. The management of malicious content and spam information is constrained by decentralized currency accountability, requiring users to deposit collateral tokens. If improper behavior occurs, they will lose their collateral, creating a positively incentivized interactive environment.

supports secondary creation and DAO governance

Lamina1 encourages secondary creation of content. Fans with copyright can engage in secondary creation and sales under authorization, allowing works to continuously evolve in new forms and expand the influence of the original work. This flexible authorization model builds a new creative economic ecosystem, achieving creators' autonomy over content and revenue management.

Lamina1 also facilitates a traceable distribution mechanism, allowing creators and fans to establish a continuous revenue-sharing relationship. Creators can choose monetization methods such as one-time transactions or long-term subscriptions, making the creative economy a cycle of interaction and co-creation, enabling fans to deeply participate and drive the development of creativity.

In addition, creators can lead platform operation and management through the DAO mechanism, attracting fans to participate in development together. This DAO-based community governance breaks the centralized interest relationships of traditional platforms, ensuring that creators and fans have the right to participate in content governance and profit-sharing. Both parties jointly decide on content distribution and revenue distribution rules, forming a decentralized content economy that ensures long-term content activity and provides creators with a stable source of income.

Future expansion of interactive experience and staking services

Lamina1 will continuously optimize interaction features, such as deepening the relationship between creators and fans through direct links and staking functions. The staking function can be used for promoting works, allowing fans to support creators while also receiving rewards, which increases the participation and breadth of content dissemination through this two-way incentive. In the future, Lamina1 plans to launch more open interactive features, including staking services and the expansion of creator communities, enhancing platform openness, user experience, and the diversity of earnings, helping creators maximize the value of their content.

A New Era of Creator Economy Empowered by Resources and Technology

Lamina1 is able to open up a "new path different from traditional metaverse projects" mainly due to its strong technical reserves and rich resource support.

Lamina1 is a full-stack platform aimed at the creator economy, co-founded by metaverse pioneer Neal Stephenson, blockchain veteran entrepreneur Peter Vessenes, and entertainment technology expert Rebecca Barkin. Through an innovative Blockchain network, creator-friendly token economic design, and AI-enhanced creative tools, it empowers interaction and revenue between creators and fans, achieving a sustainable decentralized creative ecosystem. Lamina1 not only possesses Web3 decentralized characteristics but also strives to realize a highly interactive creative experience, opening up new ways for interaction and revenue sharing between creators and fans.

Technical and Resource Support

Lamina1 relies on technology and strategic investment resources to build a comprehensive support system. In 2024, the mainnet and Beta phase completed core product functions, covering key areas such as user distribution, digital asset management, and content collaboration. At the same time, it expands the user base through strategic financing and cooperation, laying out the creative and social infrastructure globally. Lamina1 has attracted support from leading industry investment institutions, including Reid Hoffman and Joe Lubin, providing solid financial backing for continuous technology development.

Technically, Lamina1 provides no-code creation tools, an identity social system, and an NFT market designed specifically for content creators, helping creators collaborate with fans to co-create content. In addition, a long-term rights incentive program is established for creators, including a multi-level token incentive mechanism, promoting creators' self-funding capabilities to ensure continuous investment in creation.

The differentiated advantages of Lamina1

As an innovative project in the field of the metaverse, Lamina1 is unique in its collaborative support with top partners from various fields. In addition to collaborating with the renowned special effects company Weta Workshop, it has also partnered with Harper Collins and Penguin Publishing Group to promote Neal Stephenson's works, providing creators with rich IP resource support. Furthermore, Lamina1 is about to collaborate with Halcyon to launch a metaverse content series and plans to work with multiple Web3 technology partners to further promote the diversification of platform content development and experience optimization.

With a strong technological foundation and extensive resource support, Lamina1 is leading the creator economy into a new era of decentralization and high interactivity, aiming to become an important pillar in the future development of the metaverse industry.

Future Outlook: Building a Decentralized Creative Ecosystem

As a pioneering platform in the metaverse field, Lamina1 carries the ambitious vision of co-founder Neal Stephenson and the team's profound technical accumulation. Unlike traditional platforms, Lamina1 is dedicated not only to building a diversified ecosystem that supports the creator economy but also integrates cutting-edge technologies such as Blockchain, AI tools, and decentralized governance, aiming to create an open world with cross-cutting and highly efficient interactions.

In the future, Lamina1 will continue to promote integration with literature, film and television, games, art, and other fields globally, driving the combinability and functionality diversification of NFT content within the creator ecosystem. At the same time, through social interaction and augmented reality experiences, it will enhance the depth of interaction between users and creators. With the improvement of the mainnet and the expansion of protocol functions, Lamina1 is expected to attract more innovators and creators, reshaping the future landscape of content creation and distribution, and leading a new era of decentralized creation.

At that time, a vibrant and creative virtual economic ecosystem will gradually emerge, allowing more people to have greater autonomy and creativity in the digital world. Let us look forward to how Lamina1 will inject new vitality into the creator economy and the metaverse ecosystem through the combination of technology and creativity.