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The Artefact Experience just expanded. After last week’s Prologue test, the Lamina1 core team pushed live a major update, including: ✨ 7 new maps to explore ✨ Improved interface + performance ✨ Travel costs, rewards, and optional routes now fully active ✨ Materials available for future Crafting updates Players can now return daily to advance their decryption, uncover hidden paths, and piece together the world’s post-Spike history at their own pace. As the first wave of players complete their decryptions, the next expansion will unlock. Explore the world → lamina1.com/space/artefact Read more about the update → https://lnkd.in/gU2BkaqS

New episode alert~ What if creators actually owned equity in the platforms they build? Neal Stephenson (author, Snow Crash) and Rebecca Barkin ( LAMINA1 co-founder) are building exactly that—a blockchain-based multimedia platform called Spaces where IP owners retain rights, set royalties, and earn real stakes in the ecosystem. On this The AI/XR Podcast with me, Rony Abovitz and Ted Schilowitz , they unpack Lamina1's evolution from metaverse currency to decentralized creator platform. Built on Ethereum with backing from Consensus Network, Spaces solves crypto's micro-transaction volatility problem while giving creators sustainable economics. They've already signed the Bob's Burgers team (Ghosted Media) and other Hollywood refugees who refuse to hand over IP to studio gatekeepers. The team's first creative test case? Artifact—a post-Singularity world where 12 mega-AIs compete for energy, copper, water, and GPUs while humans navigate the interstices. Co-created with Weta Workshop and fans, it's proof that small teams with AI tools can build AAA-scale worlds. Key insight: "You can't architect compelling experiences backward from financial outcomes." Web3 rushed to meme coins and speculative tokens, then tried building quality product. Lamina1 inverts the model—great story first, economic sustainability second. News covers Valve's PCVR comeback, Meta's real-time AI glasses, Google's Gemini Maps, 11 Labs voice cloning, and Disney's AI remix strategy. New episodes every Tuesday. Link in comments. #AIXRPodcast #Lamina1 #NealStephenson #CreatorEconomy #Blockchain #Web3 #Metaverse

Episode 01: Proof of Purpose, the first playable chapter of the #Artefact Experience, is officially live on LAMINA1 and Linea and accessible to our first 10,000 players. Today's launch once again marks a major milestone in a world we’ve been building with some truly extraordinary partners and creators. Artefact is the beginning of an evolving, interactive, on-chain storyworld shaped through play, discovery, and community. Here's to everyone who helped bring this experience to life: Neal Stephenson — whose imagination and narrative foundations shape every corner of this universe. Wētā Workshop Ltd — for the worldbuilding, concept development, art direction, and early character vision that anchor Artefact in a rich, tactile reality. Alvaro Gonzalez — for leading systems design, game mechanics, progression loops, and the core gameplay framework that will power the Artefact Experience. Ryan Gill — for executive production leadership, aligning creative, technical, and operational tracks WithLore — for engineering, production, and art/UX execution And the entire team and community at LAMINA1 for months of late nights, iteration, and collaborative worldbuilding. Today’s release is just the prologue. The world of Artefact is massive — full of characters, factions, signals, and stories that will begin surfacing over the coming weeks as early access players step in, explore, and help us shape what comes next. If you minted a thumb drive last week, you can now enter your Rig, begin decrypting your Artefact, and start uncovering the first clues of this universe. Explore Episode 01: https://lnkd.in/g8tp-5SH Read the launch overview + onboarding guide: https://lnkd.in/gsEjzc_z

7,000 mints in the first 24 hours! We’re thrilled by the response from the LAMINA1, Linea, and the broader #Web3 ecosystem as Artefact enters its first public phase. This project brings together creative, technical, and narrative teams to explore what’s possible when storytelling meets blockchain. If you’re curious about the intersection of narrative, AI, on-chain progression, and player-driven storytelling, Artefact is a great place to start. Join the Experience: https://lnkd.in/gW9cC8x6

With all phases of the #Artefact mint open, the LAMINA1 core team is now preparing to launch the first interactive chapter of the experience early next week. Players who’ve claimed a Thumb Drive will soon step into the Outskirts—a quiet, post-Spike landscape where they’ll operate their rigs, decrypt their drives, and begin shaping their place in the world. This launch is the beginning of a long-term roadmap that brings together narrative design, lightweight gameplay loops, and community-driven co-creation. If you haven’t claimed your drive yet, now is the time. https://lnkd.in/gW9cC8x6

Today marks the beginning of early access for #Artefact on Lamina1, a project that has challenged us to rethink what interactive storytelling can look like when narrative, community, and infrastructure are designed to evolve together. Starting today, L1 holders, L1 Early Access Passholders, and the AnotherWorld community can mint their first Thumb Drive and enter a world built in collaboration with Neal Stephenson, Wētā Workshop Ltd, and a cross-ecosystem partnership with Linea. Over the coming days, the Artefact Space will shift from a static launchpad into a living environment, where weekly content drops, player choices, and shared discovery begin to shape the story from the inside out. Early access players will be the first to test this loop—and the first to help define what comes next. If you’re interested in where storytelling, game design, and decentralized systems meet, this is the moment to join. Start minting + explore the Space: https://lnkd.in/gW9cC8x6

I’m happy to share that I’ve joined Artefact as Lead Game Designer. Artefact is the flagship on-chain playable narrative IP from LAMINA1 Spaces set in a world shaped by Neal Stephenson, Rebecca Barkin and Wētā Workshop Ltd, and built with joseph lubin, Consensys, and Linea. For years, most on-chain projects optimized around speculation. Artefact is different: it treats the chain as infrastructure for story, for choices with consequences, shared canon, and co-created culture. The goal isn’t to mint hype; it’s to mint meaning. My role is to help align the fiction, the systems, and the rails: a world that stands up to scrutiny, mechanics that turn care, risk, and belonging into real decisions, and an open structure where creators can extend the IP without diluting it. If that blend of story x technology x community speaks to you, check what's happening at https://lnkd.in/dwPGAbPQ ...the story is already unfolding... -END OF TRANSMISSION-

Today in Variety: LAMINA1, Neal Stephenson, and Wētā Workshop Ltd unveil the next evolution of creator-owned IP with our flagship project, Artefact. As Variety writes: “Artefact blends game mechanics, collaborative storytelling, and a community-driven approach to world-building — offering players and creators an entirely new way to shape an evolving narrative universe.” We’re incredibly proud to see this work recognized, and even more excited for what it unlocks: open, participatory worlds built in partnership with the creators and communities who inhabit them. Explore the full story and find out how to step inside the Artefact Space: https://lnkd.in/gf6wCshh

Dear friends, I invite you to explore #ARTEFACT, a new original IP and web-based interactive universe imagined by LAMINA1 co-founder Neal Stephenson, the team at Wētā Workshop Ltd, and our very own in-house storytellers. Artefact contemplates the very timely question of how humans will organize and advocate for ourselves and the planet as #AI advances, augments, and consumes the world we knew. The experience transcends a single medium (book, game, film) to pull fans into the crafting of a vast post-Spike world. Stakes are high, and on 11.11, players find themselves caring for a rare Artefact that will place them in the center of an open-ended burgeoning rebellion against “The BIGS,” ignited by a mysterious rogue insider. Will you take action and find your tribe or will you take the buyout that promises a friction-free existence but threatens to entertain and feed you into idiocracy? Artefact unfolds within SPACES (beta), a new platform product release. It is designed to let creators and fans experiment, develop, converse, and expand IP together. Here, creators retain their IP ownership and their fans; they can monetize, and participate in the value of the platform. Eventually, with the help of a few friends in the ecosystem, we’ll offer a pathway to alternative funding of A+ creative projects. Permissioned #AI tooling will power collaborative world-building on Spaces, from custom #LLMs to #agents that guide or extend storyworlds. We’re experimenting with AI-driven lorekeepers that summarize storylines and generate quests based on community activity. And we’ve been so fortunate to have access to World Labs marble splats (beta) to support our pipeline, generating 3D scenes from 2D concepts. It’s been a long road to get back to our why, but so energizing. The mission has always been to make the stories we want to see in the world, and enable others to do the same without giving up agency, data, and economic viability. Decentralization was a steep learning curve, but ultimately, it is the infrastructure that can return the internet to the people. > Dive into the lore here. https://lnkd.in/gEM5PuP9 > Click Join the Artefact Space (it takes just a couple of clicks). > Get your ticket in on 11.11 (timeboxed). Congratulations to Neal, Weta, and our mighty little core team William Carter, Géraldine Pamphile, Casey Halter, Ryan Gill, Baltasar Aroso, Bernardo Cardoso, Alvaro Gonzalez and many others who have contributed. And cheers to our investors who always believed, no matter the market. 🥂 As always, Beware the Took Lies. #Immersive #gaming #artefact #blockchain #storytelling #AI #eth #linea #lamina1 #XR #ugc #creatoreconomy