I would love for this project to succeed, I’m a huge fan of N.S. and implicitly trust anything he’s involved in. I’m leaving this comment in hope to look back

I would love for this project to succeed, I’m a huge fan of N.S. and implicitly trust anything he’s involved in. I’m leaving this comment in hope to look back at it in a few years and be proved utterly wrong. This white paper seems like the usual web3 pie in the sky nothing-burger: Generate hype, cash in, keep repeating as long as it works, then abandon. There’s enough meat on the fire that it would take 20 successful companies a decade to implement a subset of what Lamina1 target in the near future. One example that stands out to me in the sea of red flags: > On-chain in-band messaging on Lamina1 is an area of active research, with an eye on major areas of innovation. I read this (in context) as: our chain will be so fast it’ll be used for everything, including real time gaming events. To be fair, a couple of paragraphs later: > State changes must be synchronized among all participants and serialized to some kind of storage. A combination of on-chain and other decentralized services can achieve this. Details on vague claims like this is what I was looking for in this paper, but there’s none. I wish all the best to the Lamina1 team, but as things stands today, this looks to me like just another crypto grift. [for context: I have ~20 years of experience with consensus protocols, cloud infrastructure, P2P systems, and, more recently, blockchains. I despise the sorry state of cryptocurrencies as much as the next HN user]