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20 ๐จ๐ฟ // Etherean // Regen // Engineering at Trezor // Builder // Future will not be centralized ๐ฆ๐
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- I started receiving push notifications from @buttrfly.lens on my new followers but they all seem not to be true because when I look in inside the app, I donโt see any new followers.
I eventually turned off notifications from @buttrfly.lens
Cc @0xmoe.lens
- Just updated @buttrfly.lens on my mobile. As an early user I must say that they put in so much work since the first version.
Immediate switch from @orbapp.lens to this ๐ฅ๐ซก
I feel like the next thing for Lens mobile are native apps. Just stop doing React Native or Flutter apps because for social the stuff that native development brings makes so much sense.
Big shout out to @0xmoe.lens
- Lens BigQuery Public Dataset is Liveย ๐
Read more about unlocking new possibilities in our blog
https://mirror.xyz/lensprotocol.eth/L-VyE549sOOdi4nBgos6XNAUgf3H1oErfkAtndU6RHY
Learn how it works in our developer docs
https://docs.lens.xyz/docs/public-big-query
- Gm frens
- This year I have my High school leaving exam and since there's fren ChatGTP you can take full advantage of him.
That's why I made this lil app that helps you prepare your books and questions for your oral exam - https://maturita-ai.vercel.app.
Code https://github.com/AdamSchinzel/maturita-ai
[For CZ student only now]
- ZK is bigger than blockchains
ZK provers: Pushing data from private systems
ZK verifiers: Receiving data from external systems
Servers + ZK verifiers: Trusted cross system interactions
Blockchain + ZK verifiers: Trustless cross system interactions
All with Privacy & consent
Can't wait to integrate Sismo verifiers within Lens ๐ฟ
- We are working on exposing the entire LENS DB over a PUBLIC big query dataset, allowing you to grab huge amounts of data instantly. The LENS API is excellent for smaller queries, but this will open up the doors for bigger computes, ML processes and a lot of other stuff. Shouldnโt be long โก๏ธ
- We are working on something that makes images and audio load super fast across Lensverse
after that we will proceed to optimize video content on Lens too
We are ๐ Lens for scale ๐
- Is it just me or is the button for creating posts on @orbapp.lens to big? I would prefer it to be without the text, icon is enough
- Gm and see you all at ETHDenver, who else is going to be there?
- Generate TL;DR is game changer, we are slowly overtaking Twitter๐ฅ๐
- Exciting news! ๐พ
@meetvers.lens is launching on @lensprotocol to help developers bring their Web3 vision to life. Get access to big data insights and powerful networking algorithms (๐ช;๐ฟ)
Check out our intro article and see the future of Web3 unfold: https://medium.com/@meetvers/building-the-future-of-web3-on-lens-protocol-with-meetvers-6686168a252e
What data are you missing on @lensprotocol? ๐
- Just a few weeks till ETHDenver, so exited
- Hey!, my name is Benjamin Gutiรฉrrez, one of the founders of Wav3s ๐ค and I'm here to tell you the story of how I went from a regular job to living my dream of working full-time on Wav3s.
At the end of 2021, together with @cristianvaldivia.lens , another Wav3s founder, we decided to leave our start-up at the peak of success. We were working like crazy without much remuneration, but it was impossible to scale, since we were working with hardware. We knew we wanted to take the plunge and dive into the world of Web 3, since our team meetings always ended up with us discussing the exciting world of blockchain. We had a couple of ideas, but nothing concrete - so each one of us went our own way.
I spent the next year automating processes in several companies, while still studying up to launch myself into entrepreneurship in Web3. The second semester of 2022 changed everything. With Cristian, we attended our first crypto event in Argentina - and it just so happened that it was on my birthday! It was one of the best birthdays I've ever had, getting to know the crypto community and projects like Poap , which helped us a lot to connect with more people. But the highlight of the week was when Stani talked about Lens protocol - it blew my head off! ๐คฏ
When I arrived back in Chile, I was disappointed to find that there was not the same level of community and activity. I apply to become a Polygon Guild Mage, to create the Polygon community in Chile. Hundreds of people applied, and luckily I was chosen - I think my travels to Argentina helped.
Thanks to being a Polygon Guild Mage, I was given a scholarship to Devcon. We participated in the Hackathon and I still think we should have won a prize, because our product was really good - and the product work perfectly. We created a humanity verification system with Poap, so if you shared POAPs with another person, you could validate them as human - a simple, but useful idea to fight bots. ๐ค
Although our project, Verify me or Soureal, didn't work out, I still have a lot of affection for it. We had the chance to meet the entire Lens team, including Stani, and they invited us to rAave and more. ๐ค
When we returned to Chile, we met @bvdaniel.lens , the other Wav3s founder, and tested a couple of ideas within the Lens ecosystem. When we made it public on Lens, nobody tested it or even liked it. We felt completely unnoticed, so we decided to create Wav3s, so that everyone could spread their publications through Lens - and the growth it has had, and all the support we've received, still amazes.
The conclusion of this story is that one decision can open or close a world of opportunities - so don't be afraid to take a risk, because you may find something even better! ๐คฉ
- It should be faster now so letโs see
- Huge speed increase deployed today for the LENS API! You can feel the speed on all the apps now, loving it. We have another 33% speed increase coming as well, hold onto your hats. Enjoy all! โก๏ธโก๏ธโก๏ธ
- Bot economy is real
- Classic Vienna Schnitzel
- If @gotenks.lens didnโt have that much activity I donโt really know what my home feed would be about XD
- Gm
- Web3 has come a long way, & there is a lot to be excited about in 2023.
So what are the tools, products, protocols, & real-world use cases that are production-ready today?
Here are 7 things to be excited about this year from the perspective of a developer of 10+ yrs.
1. Permanent storage
At AWS, S3 was one of the first, most used, and useful services. Web3 storage solutions take managed storage a step further by introducing both immutability & permanence, something you can't get with traditional storage solutions.
This is why companies like Instagram chose Arweave to build out features that are simply not possible through other centralized architecture.
With newer protocols built on top of Arweave, like Bundlr, EXM, and Warp, the barrier to entry for users and developers has gone down drastically as it's now trivial to build high quality, performant applications on Arweave with better + easier to use APIs and gateways with improved UX.
2. Messaging
One of the big value propositions of web3, as a developer, was this idea of shared data and infrastructure.
Unfortunately at the time when I joined the space, April 2021, there wasn't much actually possible outside of DeFi, NFTs, DAOs, and digital payments.
While these are all very interesting use cases, digital payments were the only thing that might be compelling to the "average" person in the world (something I'll touch on later).
Fast forward to today - one of the most exciting new protocols launched in the past year is @xmtplabs - a protocol for implementing encrypted and secure messaging.
If you need messaging in your app, or maybe you just want to build a new messaging app that has some cool new features that don't exist elsewhere, you can now tap into XMTP and leverage not only a high quality service - you also inherit the users of all of the other apps that have ever built with XMTP.
You no longer have to bootstrap an entirely new user base, all users across any app built with XMTP can pick up your app, sign in, and can continue their conversations from their other apps.
This is already happening and gaining momentum in the @lensprotocol ecosystem and elsewhere.
This value proposition that is enabled by shared, public, immutable data and infrastructure is the most powerful, underestimated, and underrated thing about web3, and the reason to be building with these tools and technologies.
3. Account abstraction (AA)
Scalability, accessibility, and UX are the biggest obstacles to adoption for blockchain technologies.
Account abstraction helps solve two of these challenges head on (accessibility and UX) and has quickly become one of the most prioritized features in protocol roadmaps, and popular topics in the blockchain community.
Account abstraction enables features like:
1. Social, email, or arbitrary account login
2. Gasless meta-transactions
3. Batching multiple transactions
4. Gas payments in arbitrary tokens
5. Multi-signature security
6. Social recovery
and more.
Protocols like Fuel are being built from the ground up to treat account abstraction as a first class citizen, while specifications like EIP4337 allow existing protocols to build account abstraction into existing protocols traditionally dependent on EOAs.
Biconomy has been working on tackling these challenges for years and offer an easy to use SDK and APIs to start building with right away, and whose implementation of account abstraction is based on EIP4337.
With gasless transactions and cheaper and cheaper execution environments, developers and teams can start to consider treating blockchain infrastructure the same as we've been treating traditional cloud infrastructure.
We can subsidize transactions which would remove the huge barrier to entry for the vast majority of the population - asking them to not only onboard the right tokens from the right exchange on the right network, they can instead just use our apps like they would any other app.
4. Better execution environments and L2s
Not long ago the speed, cost, block time, and time to finality of almost all networks was so slow and expensive that most use cases were prohibited, and the UX of the existing use cases was subpar to put it mildly (compared to centralized infrastructure).
Today, there are protocols that are either already being used in production or will be coming to market in the next ~6 months that provide an equal or better UX than traditional "web2" applications, made possible by sub second finality and transaction costs as low as less than $0.001.
Arbitrum Nova combines the latest step in the evolution of their technology, Nitro, with a data availability committee to offer a smart tradeoff between decentralization and security that provides a compelling solution for use cases like gaming and social media applications, like Reddit who is using it for their community points system.
Fuel bas built an entirely new execution environment and developer stack from the ground up, and is the fist modular execution environment. Using SwaySwap, which is built on Fuel, is already a better experience by a long shot than any traditional banking app I've ever used. (looking forward to trying it in production)
https://fuellabs.github.io/swayswap/swap
As a developer, having a fast and inexpensive execution environment paired with the highest quality DX I've seen in the blockchain world (including their own Rust-based language Sway, accompanied by a suite of high quality developer tools) is probably the most exciting place to be building, especially since they will be integrating not only with Ethereum but possibly other pieces of the modular stack like @celestiaorg.
Polygon has so much going on it's hard to keep up, not only with the volume of quality web3 infrastructure they are shipping, but the fact that countless companies like Nike, Instagram, Starbucks, Reddit, us at @lensprotocol, and others have chosen to build there.
There is a lot more happening, these are just some of the things I'm personally interested in.
5. Better abstractions
If you're a developer you've no doubt heard of, or possibly used, Vercel.
Vercel is wildly popular because it provides the best UX available for building and deploying web applications and features like serverless functions, which are very powerful while abstracting away the inferior UX of other cloud and managed service providers.
Decentralized infrastructure like Arweave and IPFS enable some of the same functionality, but in the past the UX and DX for building was not close to what services like @vercel offer.
With platforms and services like Fleek XYZ, Akord, and EXM developers can build and deploy applications and leverage storage functionality + serverless functions on these protocols without having to deal with tokens at all and instead just use an API key like they have done in the past.
The value proposition is that you inherit all of the use cases of traditional infrastructure but with immutability and, with Arweave, permanence.
6. Social graphs
There are ~4.9 billion social media users in the world as of today. Worldwide it is forecasted that there will be 5.85 billion social media users by 2027.
Social features pop up in almost every application we use today.
I joined @lensprotocol a few months after creating a tutorial video teaching developers how to build with Lens and realizing how web3 social could potentially be the key to mass adoption.
Like Serverless infrastructure and managed services (like Twilio and those offered by AWS, GCP, etc..) enable developers to quickly build scalable applications without having to manage back end infrastructure, Lens Protocol provides web infrastructure for building scalable applications with social features.
Instead of having to build, maintain, and iterate on their own back ends and APIs, they can instead focus on building out their web or mobile application while the Lens team continues to iterate and improve upon the back end infrastructure.
In addition to that, when they launch their app on Lens they inherit the x-100s of thousands (and in the future, millions) of users and ecosystem instead of having to bootstrap everything from scratch.
Combining the improved UX coming to market now with real-world use cases like social and messaging opens the door to countless opportunities for developers to build out unique and high quality experiences that literally cannot be built with centralized technologies, and importantly these are not strictly financial use cases for once.
7. Sybil resistance
One of the other big challenges of building in this space has to do with sybil attack and solving sybil resistance.
Multiple options for solving this now exist, most notable @gitcoin Passport and @worldcoin.
There is a lot more happening that I didn't cover, but for someone with somewhat limited bandwidth these are some of the main things I'm excited about this year.
2022 was a tough year, and it's hard to predict what will happen next, but for builders there has never been a more exciting or opportune time to be in this space โจ
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- As apps on Lens become better and better Iโm feeling more and more the โaddictionโ aka dopamine hit that comes when checking social media. UX alone can go a long way.
The content industry is no winner take all. There are an infinite amount of books, movies, tv shows, influencers, musicians and YouTubers. Yes, some are more popular but there is room for many.
Web3 social is inevitable.
- A lot has happened over the past few months in the @LensProtocol ecosystem.
In this thread I want to highlight some of the projects, updates, and products we or the community has shipped over the past year and also shed some light on what's coming next. ๐ฟโค๏ธโ๐ฅโก๏ธ
For anyone unfamiliar with @LensProtocol - Lens is a protocol, API, and suite of tools that enables developers to easily and quickly build social media applications, or integrate social features like follows, likes, publications, profiles, and encrypted chat.
Since the official launch on Polygon on May 18:
https://twitter.com/LensProtocol/status/1526944792013316097
... there have been around 100 apps that I would consider serious that are being built or that have launched on Lens.
https://www.lens.xyz/apps
There are also many apps integrating Lens social features into existing apps.
This use case will be a popular and growing one this year as it is a low lift and requires minimal work, but with a lot of upside.
Want to parse social posts in your wallet? Lens
Want to add a comments section to your blog? Lens
Already have posts/comments but want to add Collects, linked re-posts, and linked likes to your posts? Lens
Want to add a discussion forum to your site that's token-gated for your DAO? Lens
Want to leverage a user base of x hundreds of thousands (or in the future, x millions) of users without having to bootstrap a network from scratch? Lens!
Like managed services and cloud computing has abstracted away the need to build abd maintain complex back end infrastructure from scratch, Lens abstracts away to the need for developers to build and maintain the infrastructure necessary to implement social features themselves.
Whether or not Lens is built on traditional or decentralized technologies should not matter to the average user or developer.
At the end of the day, many of the features provided by Lens are only made possibly by blockchains and decentralized protocols like Arweave and IPFS, but they should not be at the forefront of the discussion.
Instead, the applications should speak for themselves: the UX and value proposition should be compelling enough on their own for the average internet user or developer to want to use or build on Lens, regardless of the underlying tech stack.
Part of providing a compelling UX is abstracting away the need to know about or understand blockchains and wallets at all.
As of now, this is not part of the average Lens front-end, but is something we'll be considering this year as we move toward scaling Lens to >50,000 TPS and enabling permissionless access to the protocol (both of which are on our somewhat near-term roadmap).
For developers, we plan to double down on providing the best possible DX we can offer for developers.
Last year we made consistent updates and improvements to our docs and API and launched two new SDKS:
Lens React SDK
https://twitter.com/dabit3/status/1606383208089718794
and React Native Lens UI Kit
https://twitter.com/dabit3/status/1600188853297377280
We have a lot of plans for these two libraries, and will also be considering shipping additional products to facilitate and improve the ease of development for devs building on or integrating Lens.
The engineering team led by @wagmi continues to ship new updates to the Lens API at a rapid pace.
You can keep up with the updates by following LensAPI on Lens: @lensapi
A small handful of highlights I will call out that were shipped last year:
- gated publications powered by @LitProtocol
- dispatcher enabling signless transactions
- optimistic UI updates
- feed highlights
- degrees of separation
- profile interests
+ many many others
In November, Lens adopted @xmtplabs to provide secure, private, and encrypted profile-to-profile DMs for the entire Lens ecosystem.
This was huge as it was one of the most requested features from Lens users and the reception has been incredible.
https://twitter.com/xmtp_/status/1588200030820704257
The Lens grants program has deployed funds to over 50 teams building on Lens.
We plan to continue working closely with, and providing support for, certain developers and teams who are building interesting or valuable applications on Lens through our grants program and / or providing engineering support through private channels.
We will be attending, mentoring, participating, and sponsoring strategic events in 2023, including branching out into more traditional "web2" events.
We plan to attend all major @ETHGlobal events, DevCon, & a few other web3 / blockchain events.
We also plan to create small to medium-sized meetup-type events this year in cities around the world starting with Sao Paulo in a couple of weeks.
Here, people can meet others in their community who are using or building on Lens, and also get allow-listed for a profile until permissionless access is enabled for everyone.
There is a lot of hype around web3 social right now:
https://twitter.com/ljin18/status/1610688970173878272
I agree that 2023 will be a huge year for web3 social and for Lens.
We are focused, motivated, and excited to continue building off of the momentum created last year to make 2023 a breakout year for Lens.
There is a lot more happening outside of DevRel, with dedicated teams working with creators (@christina & @bradorbradley) and also other areas of focus like integrations and partnerships.
I have not done a good job highlighting everything else happening in the ecosystem and with the other teams.
If you do want to keep up, follow Lens team members on Lens and on Twitter, starting with:
@christina
@bradorbradley
@fabri
@yoginth
@stani
@paris
@donosonaumczuk
@wagmi
@davidev
@sasicodes
@pealco
That wraps up this overview.
I'm beyond excited and motivated about what we will be working on this year and invite you enjoy the ride with us!
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- Introducing Quote Posts on @lensport.lens !
This was inspired by @0xmoe.lens who added Quote posts to @buttrfly.lens
You can now view and quote posts on desktop too!
Features:
- Simple to do, just press the mirror button (UI similar to Twitter)
- View how many quotes a post has
- View all of the quotes of a post
- Compatible with buttrfly Quote Posts
Try it out on this post: https://lensport.io/p/30736_123
- Gm frens
- Who will be the first to have 100k+ followers on Lens?
- Say it, collect it
- Does anyone have an invite to Farcaster? Would like to try it. Wondering if apps built on Lens are better or nah
- @orbapp.lens is the first app built on blockchain (Lens protocol) that I use every single day. This is really dream come true!
- "Mirror to earn"
- Portability will be a big and important thing in upcoming years
- Can you name the mobile app feature that drives 3x more retention and increases engagement by up to 88%?
It's... push notifications ๐ฒ๐
Introducing push notifications for XMTP.
We are taking a different approach for devs to send push notifications. https://github.com/xmtp/example-notification-server-go
Since XMTP SDK launched, devs have consistently asked us for a way to use XMTP for push. With the example server, devs can build notification support right in their apps.
๐ Simply fork the repo, deploy, and start sending notifications in your app to drive retention back to you.
With XMTP's example server you can deliver push notifications right into your app, whether it's on mobile, desktop, or the web.
And there's no need to ask users to download yet another app to receive your notificationsโthey can be reached wherever they are using XMTP.
And because the notifications are over XMTP they'll be secure, private, and fast.
๐ All notifications are end-to-end encrypted
๐ง Third parties can't observe senders and receivers
โก Notifications are handled off-chain, so there is no latency
XMTP's example notification server is now in Developer Preview so you can get started sending notifications today!
Join the community โ www.discord.gg/xmtp
Share feedback โ https://github.com/orgs/xmtp/discussions/21
Start building โ https://github.com/xmtp/example-notification-server-go
- Twitter is dead. Long live Lens!
- ๐ฟ Today, we celebrate 10 million gasless transactions (still in closed beta)
๐ค We are so grateful for our innovative community of developers and creators
๐ค We're excited to keep building with you
- I'm trying out @wav3s - a tool that lets you pay users who share your content on Lens! ๐ฟ
You can earn 1 Matic by simply mirroring this post (up to 100 Matic)! ๐
I really love that we can monetize and pay directly through the platform. This is the power of web3 social โก๏ธ (gm)
Good luck!
- Building in public helps a lot in understanding user sentiment, what they would like to see in a product. Definitely recommend for applications build on top of Lens to take most out of building in public. Your early users are what gives a path for your product.
- Every bear builder needs sisu - it takes you far
- This year will be a year of ZK proofs
- Do you like more creating new content or aggregating high quality materials from other people?
- Just finish reading GreenPilled book by @owocki.lens . Really amazing and inspiring. Will try to support public goods and ReFi even more in 2023.
- My problem with my home feed is that I see some posts repeating all over againjust because other people that I follow commented or liked this post.
It is okey to see something if whoever I follow have commented on this but not liked it.
Is anyone experiencing the same things as I do? @stani.lens
- Exciting news! We're launching @wagmifund.lens on testnet, a highly customizable crowdfunding platform built on top of Lens Protocol ๐ฟ. Say goodbye to high fees and long wait times - with https://testnet.wagmi.fund , you can easily and quickly fund yourself, your projects and ideas. Check us out today and join the crowdfunding revolution!
#WagmiFund #LensProtocol #Crowdfunding
- ๐ค๐ฟ User on Lens
0 to 107 000 in six month !
107 000 to ? For the first year of Lens ?
https://stats.lens.xyz/
#LensFuckingGrow
- ๐ค How does a DAO become sustainable?
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