Darryl Yeo (@darrylyeo) • Hey

founder/decentralized data wrangler blockhead.info・frontend dev・UI/UX abstractionist・DeFi/web3 builder・dropout・23・prev @dydxprotocol

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First cross-post from @yup_io.lens across @farcaster.lens, Lens, and X!
Setting up my data backpack on @discoxyz.lens 🎒 https://app.disco.xyz/did:3:kjzl6cwe1jw146bj835jeivdk5hwz684fbgbpsr825llxi109mux252e6jpzo7g
Hey anon, hey! Hey @lensprotocol family! We are excited to announce our brand new home, https://hey.xyz! **Why the change?** Because we wanted to re-introduce ourselves as the one-stop shop for all things Lens. we will be continuing to showcase the latest features from the protocol while listening to our community for what they want to see next. We will be exploring communities, open actions, and whole new ways you, your NFTs, and the DAOs you’re a part of can benefit from web3 social powered by Lens. This is just the beginning, so thanks for stopping by, and saying hey! Collect this first ever post by Hey (24 hours!)
Buttrfly is now available on the App Store! 🎉 ✦ Experience a new and enhanced browsing experience on Lens Protocol. ✦ Explore feeds based on trending content and media types, including music, photos, and videos. Available on both your home and explore screens! ✦ Discover curated profiles like musicians, photographers, and more. ✦ Message your contacts and other users using XMTP, and stay up to date with all your notifications. Download: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/buttrfly-web3-social-explorer/id6449679443 The TestFlight version of Buttrfly will no longer be updated, so please download the app from the App Store to get the latest updates. 🦋
Mirror this post & automatically get a Superfluid stream 🌊 This is how it works 👇 1. Mirror this post 🔁 2. Follow @superfluid.lens on Lens 🌿 **3. Get a WMATIC stream to your wallet** until the campaign ends 🌊 You can check your stream here: https://app.superfluid.finance/ This is a new way how to boost content on Web3 social platforms. The campaign is powered by @fluidsense.lens: a decentralized web3 advertising platform built with @superfluid.lens & @lensprotocol 🚀
We're proud to introduce Lens Improvement Proposals (LIPs). This open, collaborative process will guide the future development of Lens Protocol. Taking inspiration from the successful Ethereum Improvement Proposals (EIPs) and Aave Improvement Proposals (AIPs), LIPs takes a step towards decentralized governance. The LIPs process will foster an inclusive, transparent and collaborative environment. You will find how to participate in LIPs in the Lens Protocol’s GitHub repository, which streamlines the community participation process. It gives anyone the chance to submit proposals, and promotes open discussion. Let's dive into the first three proposals that are live today: LIP-0: Establishing an Open Governance Model. A process where the Lens community can propose improvements to Lens Protocol. From the submission of proposals to transparent discussions — we aim to foster an open, collaborative, and inclusive decision-making governance model. LIP-1: Open Standards for Algorithms. A proposal to establish open standards for algorithms — based on the open Lens data layer — that will encourage the development of third-party algorithms, diverse experiences and provide user choice. LIP-2: Open Standards for Metadata. An initiative to establish metadata standards for Lens Protocol, promoting transparency, interoperability, and user empowerment. Take a deep dive into LIPs in our latest blog: https://mirror.xyz/lensprotocol.eth/8uxN9fMYBOqyDW5yZ6O3DDdOLEv1jJtxcw9qk4c4wgM LIPs are our next step in enabling community involvement in shaping Lens Protocol's future. Join us at https://github.com/lens-protocol/LIPs
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Allow us to reintroduce ourselves...meet the native hyperscaling solution for Lens, Momoka! Momoka is an Optimistic L3 scaling solution, that will process transactions at hyperscale, and is designed to support the next generation of web3 social users. Data availability layers are utilized to prevent storing information on-chain. While content on Lens may include an on-chain transaction, the content data is linked to a data availability location, like Momoka. Momoka serves as a scaling solution that processes Polygon transactions off-chain, achieving hyperscale and reducing costs. Unlike L2 solutions, Momoka doesn't compress transactions into L1, it sends and stores them on a data availability layer. The main challenge for decentralized social networks is to ensure that users have control over their content, while still being just as user-friendly as traditional social networks. Momoka makes the future of decentralized social possible. We've worked relentlessly with the @bundlr-network.lens and Arweave teams to ensure scalability by providing Data Availability (DA) guarantees, allowing the use of Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM)-supported wallets to save DA logic and facilitating the rapid publishing of data. Permissionless innovation is at the core of everything we do on Lens. As we approach one year on mainnet (still in beta), we have been blown away by the talent and passion in our dev community but we realize in order to scale to the masses, we need to build new solutions. Since yesterday, Momoka is already being beta tested on Lenster, Lenstube, Orb, Buttrfly and Phaver. We look forward to seeing more applications roll out Momoka. To make it easier to find any transaction made with Momoka, we built the Momoka Explorer (http://momoka.lens.xyz) to track and find Momoka transactions and to monitor the throughput speed of Momoka. Join our Spaces today at 15:30pm UTC to hear from @stani.lens, @wagmi.lens, @nader.lens, and special guests from Bundlr and Arweave: https://twitter.com/i/spaces/1nAKEryXyDYGL/peek
How to run a Momoka Verifier This video walks through how to run a Momoka Verifier on your local machine 👟 The Momoka Verifier enables you to operate a trustless verifier node that validates LENS DA publications in real-time. It can also serve as an indexer, allowing you to stream and index the data yourself. This open-source solution relies exclusively on software that you can run independently, without any dependency on LENS. This ensures that even if LENS were to cease operation, you would retain access to your content, maintain proof of ownership, and continue to utilize it, all thanks to a decentralized data availability storage layer.
Spotted @Stani.lens and @Kartik.lens talking @LensProtocol.lens (while wearing @GHO.lens socks) at @ETHGlobal.lens’s first Pragma event in Tokyo!
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Who is coming to ETHTokyo? 🎌🍜
GM GM #lensfrens 🌱 🌿FOLLOW 🌿MIRROR enjoy your 0.15 WMATIC
GM GM #lensfrens 🌱 🌿FOLLOW 🌿MIRROR enjoy your 0.15 WMATIC
Wow the bird app suspended ETHDenver’s account, but no worries the vibes will continue here on Orb
Creating the ETHDenver community inside Orb was a highly successful experiment! We were thrilled to see such high levels of engagement among participants, with people sharing their journeys to Denver, hosting parties, attending exclusive events, and more. If you participated I would like to invite feedback on the community, both positive and negative. What aspects of the community did you enjoy, and what could have been improved? For future events, we would like to know what you would like to see more of. Please take a moment to provide us with your feedback as it helps us to continue improving the experience. Thank you for your participation in the ETHDenver community, and we look forward to continuing this for future events too!
Let's build the future of web3 social at Eth Denver, with $25K in prizes up for grabs! Register here https://app.buidlbox.io/guidl/lens-protocol **Our bounties:** ***Best Lens Apps*** 🥇 1st Prize - $7,000 🥈 2nd Prize - $5,000 🥉 3rd Prize - $3,000 ***Integrations*** 🏆 10 best Lens integrations - null,000 each 🤿 Dive into the Lens Social Graph with the new BigQuery public dataset, and think about creating a machine learning or data analytics tool for devs and creators to better understand their audience https://docs.lens.xyz/docs/public-big-query 🤍 Build new social experiences with mental health in mind, increase self-awareness of social media consumption, or improve the experience of collecting content. 🎶 Think how Token-gated drops on social media could help to empower both fans and artists, you could create a music experience helping collectors find new music. 🌆 Think about events and how people could network at conferences through Lens, consider the value of a person's attendance history, and imagine a world where tickets can be collected posts. 🎨 Explore ways to make content creation seamless for the Lens community. Build tools that empower content creators, and offer them unique features to take their content to the next level 🤝 Noodle on the idea of more brands entering web3, and think about ways to create a loyalty program for them on Lens and enable purchasing with a crypto wallet. 🫡 With more and more DAOs being created, explore how they could integrate token-gated voting or delegate profile actions to other wallets Explore our new Lens Widgets, and integrate follow, share, and sign-in with Lens into your project or existing web3 front-end. https://github.com/lens-protocol/lens-widgets Dev Docs https://docs.lens.xyz/docs Hackathon Guide https://lens.xyz/hackathons Keep this Lens integrations doc handy as it has some useful tutorials featured to help https://docs.lens.xyz/docs/integrating-lens 👩‍💻 Lens SDK details here 👉 https://github.com/lens-protocol/lens-sdk 📱 React Native Lens UI Kit (for mobile devs) https://github.com/lens-protocol/react-native-lens-ui-kit 🤝 Join our Lens Discord community to meet others building on Lens https://discord.gg/lensprotocol Good luck, the team will be at our booth in MetaLand. Come show us what you are building to get some rare swag!
👋 Lens Frens! Turn your Lens profile into an Apple or Google Wallet pass by using lens.ethpass.xyz. Share your Lens profile by having others scan your QR code.
👋 Lens Frens! Turn your Lens profile into an Apple or Google Wallet pass by using lens.ethpass.xyz. Share your Lens profile by having others scan your QR code.
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Multisig is an awful name Groupwallet is so much better
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web3 social means only having to build your following once. and having your followers continue to grow across the entire ecosystem of apps and future apps forever without having to do anything. for devs it means starting with a built in user base instead of starting from scratch.
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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 ✨ If you've read this far, congratulations! You can earn 1 WMATIC by simply mirroring this post to your timeline (up to 100 WMATIC), made possibly by @wav3s ⚡️
I'm excited about Lens because, as a developer, it encompasses my favorite characteristic of web3 - composability. With protocols like Lens, developers can not only share code, but data and infrastructure, unlocking profound and powerful use cases that we've only begun to explore. This is the next paradigm of open source.
gm Lens frens!