Lamina1, the blockchain content platform founded by sci-fi author Neal Stephenson, has partnered with Consensys’ layer-2 network Linea to bring creator-owned media to Ethereum.
The collaboration aims to change digital storytelling by giving creators control over their intellectual property and a direct channel to their communities, according to an announcement shared with Cointelegraph.
The partnership includes investments from Joe Lubin, co-founder of Ethereum and CEO of Consensys, as well as Systemic Ventures. “Neal Stephenson is one of the leading figures in cyberpunk,” Lubin said. “Lamina1 is now perfectly positioned to be at the forefront of the onchain revolution in content creation,” he added.
Launched in 2022, Lamina1 aims to enable artists, writers and developers to maintain control of their intellectual property while involving fans in the creative process. The platform has seen over 150,000 active addresses since its launch.
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Spaces debuts on Linea as first product
The debut product on Linea is called Spaces, which will serve as a home for interactive story-driven worlds and creator-controlled IP.
The first project within Spaces is Artefact, developed by Stephenson, Weta Workshop and the Lamina1 team. Described as a role-playing experience in a post-AI world, Artefact will allow players to join competing factions, collect data fragments and shape the unfolding narrative.
“Linea’s zkEVM offers an ideal environment for creator-driven platforms like Lamina1’s Spaces due to fast, inexpensive, and secure blockspace that leverages Ethereum’s decentralization, with fully EVM-compatible development, ZK-proofs for fast finality between Ethereum and Linea, and a flourishing onchain economy as the largest ZK-rollup,” said Declan Fox, vice president and head of Linea.
Fox added that user data, digital assets and creative IP on Linea are protected by Verax, an attestation platform that allows creators to attach verifiable credentials to their works. “This robust infrastructure has already supported millions of attestations for use cases like Proof of Humanity,” he added.
Linea’s zkEVM technology is designed to handle scalable Ethereum applications with low fees and fast performance. The expansion follows Linea’s recent Token Generation Event and signals growing momentum for creative applications in the Ethereum layer-2 space.
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Airdrops for long-term LINEA holders
Earlier this month, Lubin hinted that long-term holders of the new LINEA token may receive future rewards. In a post on X, he suggested that holding tokens over time could qualify users for airdrops from Consensys or other projects in the ecosystem.
The remarks came after community concerns about the utility of the LINEA token following its token generation event. One user called on the team to enable staking or lending to give the token real use, while others criticized the project, calling LINEA a “memecoin” with no clear value beyond speculation.
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