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✍️ Web3 Product Marketing & Content Strategy
🎙️ Sharing the latest web3 fundraising news
☕️ Addicted to the Foamy Streak
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Publications
- EARN $BONSAI TO SCROLL ON TAPE.XYZ
Wouldn’t it be so much fun to scroll on your favorite creators and earn Bonsai points?
As Lens’ true community currency?
- $DEGEN ATH & COMMUNITY CURRENCIES
$Degen pumping hard under the current Drakula context shows a path for $BONSAI to grow into Lens’ community currency
- tip your favorite creators
- expand ecosystem through grants
- raise in-feed with open actions
… and a lot more!
Stay tuned for more videos on this 👀
- 📜 Scroll-to-Earn is Here 🧛♂️
No, I’m not talking about the vampire legend hailing from my home country, but the latest web3 TikTok-style app powered by $DEGEN, the very same memecoin that fueled Farcaster's explosive growth in January.
Drakula's launch coincided with the Ethereum Dencun upgrade, which slashed gas fees tenfold on layer 2s, particularly on Base, and with the House of Representatives passing a bill to potentially ban TikTok nationwide.
So, what sets Drakula apart?
🧛♂️ Every Creator Is Tradable: Each creator on Drakula has their own token, tradable in $DEGEN or $ETH. With each purchase, the creator's token price increases, adding a new gamification layer to the platform.
🩸 BLOOD is key: Drakula introduced BLOOD as a points system, where users earned it by actively engaging with the app - posting videos, scrolling through creators' content, inviting friends, and sharing videos. Users can then utilize their hard-earned BLOOD to tip creators' videos, boosting their visibility on the Drakula feed.
In just the first 8 hours, Drakula has already seen:
- Over $ 600,000 in creator token trading volume
- 15,000+ unique users
How to Get Started:
👉 Log in here: https://lnkd.in/dSDMT8Tc
💼 Sign in with Farcaster
💰 Deposit ETH or DEGEN to your Drakula wallet on Base (Needed to buy or sell creator tokens)
📹 Start Scrolling & Posting, just like you do on Tape
- crazy to see content created on @lens/orb drove the highest mints worth 139k $bonsai!
if you're a creator the best strategy rn is to create $bonsai mintable content in @club/bonsai club
https://orb.club/c/bonsai
- to bonsai or not to bonsai
- LeBronsaiiiiiii
- Throwback to when Momoka was called Bonsai for 2 hours
- It’s basically one of Lens’ community currencies
- it was airdropped a few days ago to OG Lens users
- has complex usage mechanics (minting in-app & tipping friends or artists)
- it’s a DN-404 token which means that it has both fungible and non fungible value (for every 100k $BONSAI, you receive an nft that is worth the same amount)
- fuels ecosystem growth in a more organic way as people could bootstrap new projects with it
Don’t miss out by buying some and using it to mint content or artwork / create an NFT or collection with a minting price in $BONSAI
Bonus points if you use @lens/lensport, the onchain Canva
- Whoever just bought $ 30k worth of $BONSAI, you just made a lot of people happier
Europeans can go rave in peace now
- we hit the highest DAU yesterday! 1.9k
pretty cool to see consistent 1k+ DAU since the launch of v2 four weeks ago!
- Is $BONSAI tipping a thing?
I owe some buddies a few beers
- Damn this is a dope idea
- Been absent since the last update and now I don’t know how to post a GIF on @club/orb
😒 missing V1
- Google’s having a meltdown @lens/t2world
- **My first newsletter is now out!**
Subscribe if you want to hear the latest web3 marketing scoop, tips on how to grow on-chain, and much more!
https://paragraph.xyz/@growthstories/an-intro-to-growth-stories?referrer=0x4Ea2B1553FaAD62D5a2990De019323CCc36fcc8b
- It's happening... 123 followers in 1 day 🤪
- Did someone from the Lens community just created a meme coin called Pointless 😂
- Everyone points at $POINTLESS
Get your memes ready
- @lens/Blockus CPO proudly representing at the YGG #W3GS
- Picture with the Animoca OG
- Kicking off the YGG Web3 Games Summit with Blockus in Manila!
- Trying out Cambodian “specialty” coffee - 6/10
Thanks @lens/phaver forthe my most complimented t-shirt so far
@lens/getjekted @lens/chriscomrie
- Gm Frens 💜 Check out behind the scenes of Thailand Blockchain Week Opening Dinner with Phaver team 🇹🇭
ขอบคุณครับ / Thank you! 🦄
- Am I the only one seeing AA integrations left and right?
Worked on a piece with gaming use cases
Anyone’s take on AA x Web3 Social?
- It’s so good to be back on @orbapp.lens
For some reason i couldn’t reconnect to my metamask until this last update 😒
Mobile-first really makes or breaks app usage.
- How is account abstraction unlocking frictionless user onboarding in web3 gaming?
Here are 6 major use cases in the recent article we’ve just published 👇
https://www.blockus.gg/blocks/account-abstraction-the-key-to-frictionless-web3-gaming
- Foamy streak - day #31
🇨🇴 🫘 for days
- Foamy streak - day #31
Ice latte ahead of client calls
- Momoka, the new infrastructure powering @lensprotocol, just hit 500,000 transactions at a total cost of ~ $173
With these updates our infrastructure is now ~250x less expensive while being ~165x more scalable than in the past. 🤯
Momoka Stats
💰 Cost of 100,000 transactions:
Old infrastructure ~ $10,000.00
Momoka ~$40.00
Difference ~250,000% less expensive ⚡️
📈 Scalability of 100,000 transactions
Old infrastructure (~30 TPS) 55 minutes
Momoka (~50,000 TPS) 2 seconds
Difference ~ 165,000% more scalable ⚡️
Here’s how it works 🌫️
Blockchains today cannot scale to social TPS.
Traditional databases scale to up to millions of operations per second while most blockchains max out at a few hundred.
This is mainly because blockchain storage is an expensive bottleneck in terms of both cost and scalability.
Blockchain storage is more than just storage - it also enables composability, allowing your state to also be executed with other smart contracts and programs.
But with most social use cases, especially non-financial, that power and composability is not needed, so why would we continue to use it in this way?
For decentralized social applications, two of the main characteristics needed are permanent and immutable storage tied to a user’s identity.
What if those characteristics could be derived from another infrastructure layer, but at a much lower cost and with more scalability?
In the past, all Lens transactions were processed on the EVM via Polygon network.
What is the EVM at its root? It is a big state machine, holding the entire history of state changes of what has happened in what are known as archive nodes.
The expensive part of using EVM networks is performing these state updates.
BUT! The EVM only forces cost when you want to change the state in the next block.
The EVM does **not** charge anything to simulate if something could of happened on a certain block.
This means that you can leverage this to check that a transaction has been signed by the correct access control and would of passed for free *without any gas needed*.
When you do an EVM contract call, you are signing the transaction with your private key. The EVM verifies this and injects key helpers like msg.sender which is your public key to allow contracts to know it was you who did that.
Since transactions can be run for free to prove something has the correct access control conditions to run it, what if we swapped the storage updates to a place that can handle high TPS, cheap, immutable, one time payments and will be guaranteed for at least 100 years?
Momoka is an optimistic hybrid layer 3 solution from Lens Protocol that uses data availability storage on Arweave/Bundlr along with transaction proofs on Polygon to enable highly scalable and low-cost social graph data storage and verification. It allows proving social graph transactions would be valid on-chain without actually submitting them, enabling greater scalability while maintaining verifiability and user ownership.
Arweave is a decentralized blockchain-like infrastructure protocol, built specifically for storing data forever for a one off cost, and was launched over 6 years ago.
Bundlr Network is an Arweave scaling solution built to handle 50,000+ TPS. It functions similarly to a rollup in that it batches multiple transactions together and posts them to the underlying network.
An important characteristic of Bundlr is that it supports EVM addresses, allowing you to build EVM tech state on Arweave ⚡️. They also allow you to pay fees in any EVM native token you wish!
To enable this new functionality on Lens, Momoka introduces two new pieces of architecture - the Submitter and the Verifier.
Submitters are responsible for validating and constructing the metadata and submitting it to Arweave, providing proofs that anyone can contest.
The Verifier software listens for publications sent from whitelisted submitter addresses and verifies their validity.
Anyone can run a verifier using open-source software with a few commands.
https://github.com/lens-protocol/momoka
Momoka is not limited to blocks and max limits as the restriction has been removed due to storage on Bundlr/Arweave.
Momoka gets timestamp proofs from Bundlr to be able to keep chain and off-chain actions in ordering and also to have a third party timestamp to avoid trust assumptions on Momoka.
With Momoka, users still own their content as it’s not possible to action a Momoka transaction if you do not pass the access control on-chain.
Momoka is fully trustless – anyone can check proofs with their own Polygon archive node!
We believe Momoka is core to the future of web3 social, enabling applications to scale to tens of thousands of operations per second while still enabling the differentiating features that make web3 social unique and special.
To learn more about Momoka, check out the following resources:
Announcement post
https://mirror.xyz/lensprotocol.eth/3Hcl0dGE8AOYmnFolzqO6hJuueDHdsaCs3ols2ruc9E
Momoka Explorer
https://momoka.lens.xyz/
Momoka Verifier software
https://github.com/lens-protocol/momoka
- The fast craving 🍟
KFC won tonight @jessyjeanne.lens
- Foamy streak - day #30
Back to the grind with 🇧🇷 🫘
- HOPIUM 👀
- WEB3 FUNDRAISING <> LAST WEEK | $60M FLASHBOTS SERIES B 🤖
We’re back with who raised what last week!
The last week of July ended on a high note by breaking the $100M mark with 133M in total primarily in the infra and DeFi spaces.
Top 3 Raises
🏆 Flashbots closed a $60M Series B, Hi a $30M Strategic round, and Cymbal an $18.5M investment round - an MEV project, a web3 neobank and a blockchain explorer, respectively
Funds
💰 Valhalla Ventures Raised their $66M Fund 1
🏦 Polychain announced raising $200M in the “first close” of its Fund IV
🕴️ CoinFund also raised $158M for its new fund.
Hackathons
🎒 The Superfluid July Wave Pool just ended
🇳🇬 EthGlobal Lagos Meetup took place yesterday
Follow for more updates!
- ETHGlobal Paris Finalists <> TOP 5 SPOTLIGHT
🏆 The 13 finalists coming out of the EthGlobal Paris Hackathon 🧑💻
Investors, get your checks ready 👇
🎙 ZK Microphone
📈 GLSwaps
🐦 TwitterCampaign
💥 TyphoonCashX
🪄 Kinetex Light Clients
🤫 Harpos
🫧 Bubbles
🌳 Stake Garden
🔐 Cypher Deposit
⚡️ Bob the Solver
🗣 VoiceSense
🛗 Community-bound
💬 On-chain messaging aggregator
- 🏆 Top 10 most active web3 investors in June
Who were the top 10 most active investors last month?
1️⃣ Binance Labs
2️⃣ GSR Ventures
3️⃣ Polygon Ventures
4️⃣ Hashed
5️⃣ Coinbase Ventures
6️⃣Superscrypt
7️⃣ Luis Cuende
8️⃣ Hack VC
9️⃣ dao5
🔟 StarkWare
- Just sent my magic invites to 2 new Lens frens 👀
- First post from @lenspeer
Pretty neat UI & loving the #Trending tab
Posting a 🎥 later to see how it shows up
- GM!
We are happy to announce that Lenspeer and Lens Wallet have Officially launched!
An all-in-one social media app built with [@lensprotocol](https://www.quadraticlenster.xyz/u/lensprotocol)
Anyone holding Lens Profile NFT can make their own ERC-6551 Wallet.
Join now: [https://lenspeer.com/](https://lenspeer.com/)
[#ethcc](https://www.quadraticlenster.xyz/search?q=ethcc&type=pubs&src=link_click) [#ETHGlobal](https://www.quadraticlenster.xyz/search?q=ETHGlobal&type=pubs&src=link_click) [#ETHGlobalParis](https://www.quadraticlenster.xyz/search?q=ETHGlobalParis&type=pubs&src=link_click)
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- Can’t believe 6 months ago this was something we could only dream of
Keep at it team!
https://orb.ac/post/0x28a2-0x06fb-DA-26beabe3
- Over the upcoming 20 days, we're embarking on a journey to craft another fresh, mind-blowing game on Lens.
And, we will be absolutely stoked to have you along for the ride if you are a dev, a #buildoor, a game enthusiast, or someone who is just a curious learner.
From the inception to the launch, you'll get an inside look on how we build decentralized hyper-casual games with social features. Here's our first set of nominees.
@tamrat
@danisnearby
@punkess
@nelsonrodmar
@cryptoholic2200
@ryanfox
@jessyjeanne (almost all of our supporters have suggested we touch base with you cuz you're amazing!)
@cybershakti
@jakubrusiecki
@symplybells
You guys have inspired us to keep pushing the boundaries of decentralized social gaming from the very beginning. So the least we could do was offer you this opportunity to learn, being 💯 involved in our journey, and grow together.🚀🎮
We further urge you to nominate your peers who you think would be interested to be a part of the @thefriendly family. Let's take off!
Like, mirror and collect this moment to earn 0.3 WMATIC via #zurf (First 100 people with minimum 100 followers)
- gm Onions 🧅
thanks to @huugo.lens we have an awesome @onionclub.lens PFP. 🥳🙏
Unfortunately @punkess.lens design skills are somewhere below zero 🫣 maybe someone would like to share a nice banner for @onionclub.lens :-). 👀
happy weekend ✨
- 🇫🇷 Post @ethcc.lens Proof-Of-Brew ☕️
Foamy Streak - Day #29
- Great meeting more of the Lens gang IRL
#TouchFries
https://orb.ac/post/0x73b1-0x2d61-DA-8699df76
- GXRLS REVOLUTION w/ @jessyjeanne.lens
@ethcc.lens 🇫🇷
- Big news! 📢
We're introducing our **Streaks Calendar** 🗓️ on @lenster.lens - a new way to show your daily activities and maintain consistency. Start your Lenster Streak today, and paint your calendar purple.
Use the #LensterStreak hashtag and showcase your streaks to the public.
PS: We started counting your streaks from July 6, 2023 🚀
More coming soon 😉 stay tuned!
- **Introducing Lens Protocol V2**
Lens Protocol V2 – the next chapter in the evolution of Lens. V2 brings even greater control to builders and integrators as well as people exploring web3-powered experiences. Lens V2 retains its characteristic open design space that gives developers and integrators the choice.
Join us in shaping the future. Dive into the Lens Protocol V2 Open Source Codebase on Github: https://github.com/lens-protocol/core/tree/v2
Explore all the latest V2 features in our latest Mirror post:
https://mirror.xyz/lensprotocol.eth/-hJH-2IYSe56rK7IEdwSI17hUWt-paTyAs1r4Zes0uQ
- Gm! 🇫🇷
Let EthCC begin - who else is in town?
- TradingView down to the block: CryptoQuant's $6.5M Series A 📊
- How to HOOK $3M in Seed Funding
A short explanation of Hook protocol and their latest raise
- A new low for the web3 fundraising landscape