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- We hit max capacity 🤌 🫡 for the Lens Developer Showcase event today, we'll try to facilitate a bigger audience next time.
Here is a roundup of the apps and presentations from today for those who missed it:
1. Tako Protocol, Takoyaki, and @jamfriends.lens
Tako is building an open social recommendation layer. enabling apps and app developers to recommend, advertise & curate on web3 social.
https://tako.so
They have a web app you can try at https://mainnet.takoyaki.so
They're also building Jam - the first “Friends Token” dApp on Lens
https://jam.so
2. @madfinance
MadFi enables creators to manage & monetize attention in web3.
Connect directly with brands willing to sponsor your content on web3 social, and vice versa.
https://madfi.xyz
https://share.lens.xyz/p/0x01df78-0x01-DA-3e7132a8
3. LensJump game via @thefriendly
Revise makes it easy to program NFTs to react to applications and real-world events. Taking them from static images to dynamic content.
https://lensjump.umso.co
4. Airstack
Airstack has added countless APIs enabling Lens developers to build apps in ways that were not possible before with new recommendation algorithms, resolvers, and aggregation APIs.
https://docs.airstack.xyz/airstack-docs-and-faqs/guides/lens/recommendation-engines
Dev chat https://t.co/dbVOd7n8Oj
Explorer http://explorer.airstack.xyz
Docs http://docs.airstack.xyz -- docs, tutorials, guides
SDKs https://app.airstack.xyz/sdks
Lens http://link.airstack.xyz/lens
5. @socllyofficial
A Decentralized Social Network with creator-centric tools enabling users to generate higher ROI for their time and skills.
https://www.soclly.com/
6. @karma3labs
Karma3 Labs has been building incredible recommendation algorithms and scoring APIs for Lens developers for months, and are starting to pick up a lot of traction with Lens apps like @lensterxyz @orbapp_ @buttrfly_app and other giving users the option to finally "choose their own algorithm" and tailor their feed to their liking
https://karma3labs.com
https://share.lens.xyz/u/karma3labs.lens
7. Focalize
Focalize is a free, open source, browser extension that allows you to create publications on Lens Protocol directly from your browser.
Use the toolbar icon to quickly share a link to the page you're currently viewing, create rich media NFTs on Polygon, or write long-form articles with full Markdown support.
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/focalize-post-on-lens-pro/iebmcaohopockfafpfoeoaopihocflci
Look out for the next Lens Developer Showcase soon which will dive into Lens V2.
Some of our main focus now lies in completing the launch Lens V2, enabling simple and powerful developer monetization, and opening up the protocol to let apps go viral by giving them simple ways to onboard users themselves. Stay tuned.
- gn everyone
- LFG
- V2
- happy 4th of july everyone :D
- Careful everyone with phising scams out there! ⚠️
There has been few incidents recently where community members lost their profiles due to a phishing scam on Twitter and its heartbreaking to see folks losing their profile even if they can rebuild the audience, its not the experience we are looking for even on a protocol level. 😞
We build the Lens Protocol to be agnostic to various social networking use-cases and also realized that being able to secure your profile is extremely important for the users. While we have seen some iterations of tools to secure profiles, we introduced a way to add additional security (and make it normie proof) measures for Lens V2 that would mitigate similar attempts.
Since Lens has grown so much in the past year and has an active community, we feel that we need to take action sooner and deploy a solution that helps to secure the profiles on similar scams. Therefore, we are going to release an update that improves significantly the security of the profiles before Lens V2. This is our priority now. ⚡️
Thank you for helping out to point the issues and if anyone has experienced a phising attack or seen one, please DM across Lens.
Rest stay tuned for the update 🌿
- gm
- latest one piece chapter was crazy
- nuggets take game 1
- gm all
- Anyone else watching series finale of ted lasso?
- How did Pudgy Penguins go from a rug pull to selling $500k worth of toys?
Few NFT projects have had as many trials and tribulations as Pudgy Penguins, from sell-out mints to rug pulls to launching a best-selling toy on Amazon.
Here's the story 🧵
Pudgy Penguins launched in July 2021, in the middle of the NFT bull run, selling out in less than 20 mins.
So the NFT collection of 8,888 NFTs was off to a solid start.
The floor price quickly reached an all-time high of 2.49 ETH (worth around $7k at the time.)
However, a few months later, problems started to arise.
A Discord moderator claimed that he was underpaid and was bribed by the founding team to keep his mouth shut.
Then it was discovered that the project’s founders had emptied the Pudgy Penguins treasuring, resulting in the floor price dropping to 0.4 ETH.
Needless to say, the Penguins were in shambles.
Many thought that the project would never recover from this.
How Pudgy Penguins Have Turned the Tables
In the midst of all the scandals, Pudgy’s community stayed strong, searching for new leadership.
One of the NFT holders, Luca Netz, came to the rescue, buying the entire project and IP for 750 NFTs (over $2.5 million at the time.)
So who is this Luca Netz, and what did he do to turn the Penguins into a blue-chip NFT project?
Luca Schnetzler, known as Luca Netz in the NFT world, is a 24-year-old serial entrepreneur, and his background is beyond impressive.
He’s not of those “serial entrepreneur” gurus you see on the Internet.
While he comes from humble beginnings (growing up homeless, living in 30 guest bedrooms in 9 years), his “entrepreneurial resume” is stellar, including:
• Working at the start-up Ring Doorbell which sold for null billion to Amazon.
• Being the CEO of companies like La Gold Cartel (his jewelry store), Manners Holdings, and LPT Technologies.
• Launching a VC firm, Netz Capital investing in e-commerce companies.
Using his experience in e-commerce, Luca assembled a rock-solid advisory board featuring:
• Alex Svanevik - CEO of Nansen
• Sanjay Raghavan - Head of Web3 at Roofstock
• RJ Cilley - COO of SAKS Fifth Ave
• Jordan Sterlin - Partnerships at META
• Chet Kuchinad - CPO at Save The Children, Previously at Nike & Starbucks
• Bee Ngyuyen - General Partner Limited Ventures
• Jess Richardson - Head of Licensing at Hasbro
• Paolo Moreno - Adviser at SFX Ent & Fashion Nova
• Pentoshi - King of the Penguins
Pudgy Penguins also raised $9 million in seed funding from investors like:
• BigBrainVC
• Research Kronos
• CRIT Ventures
With that much experience and dry pounder, Luca started expanding the project’s IP.
The NFT project signed a deal with the Hollywood talent agency, WME, to help them expand the brand in TV shows, movies, and gaming.
The Penguins also doubled down on their social media strategy, reaching over 3 billion views on its official GIFs and 500k followers on Instagram.
Taking advantage of the social media views, and family-friendly IP, Pudgy launched their own toys - Pudgy Toys.
It’s the world’s first mass-market NFT product that’s licensed directly from its community.
The toys are not a cheap cash grab, though.
They’ve their own utility.
Buyers of the toy will get their own certificate that gives them a trait box featuring 4-6 traits.
Owners can trade or equip these traits to their own Forever Pudgy Penguin NFT.
Once the Forever Penguin is equipped with these traits, users can mint it on the blockchain as a dynamic NFT, which can be further customized.
The toy launch was a wild success, selling over 20,000 toys (worth over $500,000) on Amazon in the first two days.
So what are the lessons we can learn from Pudgy Penguins?
1) Play to your strengths
The NFT collection of cute Penguins has a natural kid and family-friendly appeal.
So the team used doubled down on it.
The project is sharing a ton of cute memes, wallpapers, stickers, and GIFs on social media, which helped them grow theirs following without spending any money on ads.
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2) Go beyond web3
Instead of launching its 19th airdrop, the project decided to explore an entirely new market - toys.
Using Luca’s e-commerce experience, and Pudgy Penguins’ social media brand, the project’s dive into physical goods has been a wild success.
3) Think outside of the box
One quote by Luca Netz stands out:
“I look at the Pudgy Penguin like an influencer.”
If you look at the project’s social media channels, this rings true.
Pudgy Penguins has a strong presence on all social media platforms, especially on the visual ones (IG and Tik Tok), and frequently collaborates with other NFT projects like DeGods.
I also write a newsletter covering the intersection between crypto, gaming, NFTs, and the Metaverse, where I cover topics like this one.
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- HOW TO PREPARE FOR EIGENLAYER TESTNET ⚡️
This could be one of the next big trends.
Eigenlayer: A protocol on Ethereum to "re-stake" your ETH.
How does it work and is there a potential big airdrop?
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What is EigenLayer?
EigenLayer enables ETH stakers to restake their ETH or LSD (stETH, rETH) to secure other apps on the network, earning additional rewards.
Users opt-in Eigen's smart contracts and stake to earn interest on top of the existing ETH POS interest.
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How does EigenLayer work?
You can refer to my thread from January to learn more about the technical aspects, if you wanted to:
https://twitter.com/OlimpioCrypto/status/1610013658125328384
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Status of EigenLayer
The initial phase of the three-stage launch plan for EigenLayer's protocol, the Stage 1 Testnet, was unveiled by the company on the 6th of April, 2023.
This testnet is not incentivized. But you can try it now! 👀
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STEPS TO START: (this is in Goerli Testnet)
1. Get Goerli ETH on faucetlink.to/goerli or faucet.paradigm.xyz
2. Switch your wallet RPC to the Goerli Test Network
3. Send some Goerli Test ETH to this address 0x1643E812aE58766192Cf7D2Cf9567dF2C37e9B7F to get stETH
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STEPS CONTINUED:
4. Visit goerli.eigenlayer.xyz and connect your wallet
5. Click the “Lido Staked Ether (stETH)” option
6. Enter the amount you want to deposit and stake the stETH you just received
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7. Approve and confirm the transaction
8. See your balance on the dashboard.
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POSSIBLE AIRDROP?
• Not likely, for now.
• They have not confirmed any airdrop.
• Testnet is not incentivized.
However, it usually is a good idea to be an early adopter in the crypto space. It might pay off! 🪂
Moreover, this is a testnet, so no capital is needed.
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- ARB distribution model was designed by Nansen 🔵 🦅
+2,300,000 addresses bridged to Arbitrum before the snapshot.
Online 625,143 were eligible for ARB. Only around 30%!
What can we learn from their report?
5 key take-aways so you don't get excluded from airdrops ⚡
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Eligibility Criteria:
- Conducted transactions: number, value, and time thresholds
- Arbitrum Nova: bridging & conducted transactions
- Dapps and Governance activity
- Liquidity providing
💡 Take-away: the more different activities, the better. Be active!
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USD Value. I know this is a given, but it's important to stress out.
• The majority of wallets transact on small USD amounts
• The majority of wallets got small airdrops (USD value terms)
💡 Take-away: more volume = bigger airdrop. But you didn't need to be a whale to get it!
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The number of transactions
• The majority of the wallets made 1-2 transactions (1M+ wallets)
• Only 100k wallets made 50-100 transactions
Median = 3
Average = 28
💡 Take-away: more transactions = more valuable airdrop.
Become a recurring user.
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Sybil wallets:
• The Arbitrum Foundation wanted to exclude sybil wallets from getting the $ARB airdrop
• Sybil wallets = wallets with similar/fake activity, with the pure intention of hunting for an airdrop
• 172k wallets excluded
💡 Take-away: be user, not a "hunter"
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Negative criteria ⚠️
This is a new concept: some actions subtracted points, i.e. they hurt the user's individual points to get ARB.
These users got less ARB:
• All transactions in a 48h period
• Interacted with only 1 smart contract
• Low ETH balance in Snapshot day
There's a lot more data in their official report.
Read the full blog post here:
🔗 nansen.ai/research/an-on-chain-distribution-model-for-the-arbitrum-community
Join alpha discord: https://earndrop.io/discord
- What is a zkEVM? | The Edge Podcast
This is a clip from our most recent episode of The Edge Podcast with Marco Cora, the Head of Business Development at Matter Labs (zkSync) about their flagship zkEVM.
📺 For the full episode, watch it here on Lenstube: https://lenstube.xyz/watch/0x2e09-0xe4
🎙️ If you prefer a podcast player, subscribe and listen to The Edge Podcast here: https://anchor.fm/edgepod
THIS IS NOT A RECOMMENDATION OR ENDORSEMENT TO BUY ANY TOKEN OR NFT RELATED TO ANY PLATFORMS DISCUSSED.
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https://staderlabs.com/
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https://lens.xyz/
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Guest Links
Marco Cora on Twitter
https://twitter.com/Be1garat
zkSync on Twitter
https://twitter.com/zksync
Learn about zkSync Era
https://zksync.io
Learn about Matter Labs
https://matter-labs.io/
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All opinions expressed by hosts and podcast guests are solely their own opinions and not necessarily those of Fourth Revolution Capital. Podcast guests and 4RC may have positions in the assets or other matters discussed in this podcast. 4RC invested in the Series B round for zkSync. This podcast is for informational purposes only and should not be relied upon as a basis for investment decisions. Do your own research.
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