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Governments have to adopt crypto no matter what, and they know that. So what we think to be harsh regulation, is actually governments setting things in place for major compliant financial institutions to take over current non-compliant crypto ones. (e.g. Binance replaced with BlackRock, etc.)
After a Lens hiatus, I'm back. The whole Threads fiasco, and the Twitter rebrand seems like too much inherent drama for social platforms. Not to mention the hype train building up around Friend(dot)Tech. I like things mellow and low-key, much like Lens. Hello, again.
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
The future epicenter of world financial activity will not be a physical nation, state, or city. It will be a digital ecosystem existing on a blockchain. That blockchain would be Ethereum.
"Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it." Always learn from your mistakes, or even better, learn from other people's mistakes. That's why love reading memoirs and biographies — we get to learn from other people and improve ourselves, by learning from their mistakes, to better help ourselves as we journey through a similar path that the author once took. Bonus tip: It helps to think of the author as a guide, guiding you with tips and tricks on how to maximize efficiency and lessen mistakes from their own experience.
Hot take: Ads are not a bad business model, its the current ads model on internet that is broken. Well designed amplification network serves and helps the users to learn and discover new ideas and rewards those who have the art of amplification. Your are in control of your audience relationship and its up to you what you serve and share to your audience, no innovation that builds better amplification networks on Lens can be stopped because Lens is an open protocol. Its up to the users and integrators to choose what to serve 🌿
Social media platforms like Twitter and LinkedIn condition us to become “insight junkies.” They serve quick bites that make us feel smarter but turn out to be empty calories; whilst also encouraging public figures to engage in faux intelligence for clicks and reputation.
The key to understanding how mimetic contagion works is the power of suggestion. As Iago demonstrated in Shakespeare’s Othello, it is only the mere suggestion of infidelity that sets off a string of reactions. The power of suggestion cannot be underestimated.
Thank you everyone, we've just surpassed 1000 friends on @lensprotocol.lens :) We're just getting started 🌱
Crypto is speedrunning the history of the traditional financial system. So much so that it has already surpassed its timeframe.
People who invest make money for themselves; people who speculate make money for their brokers.
If we keep up the hype and pace, we'll reach full dependency on The Machines in no time. Soon we'll be using GPTx to write Twitter threads about itself to farm engagement on social media to win fake internet points for dopamine hits. What a future, the future that the people want.
OpenAI just negated hundreds, if not thousands, of AI startups with the introduction of ChatGPT plugins. And many others are on the brink of crumbling with Google and Microsoft's respective Office and cloud products integrating AI. The AI oligopoly is only at its beginnings. Position accordingly.
No one wants to look paranoid by being the first to move their money out, but no one wants to deal with the consequences of being last.
“If you are the smartest person in the room, then you are in the wrong room.” — Conficus
If crypto should be correlated with stocks in any way, then the best possible correlation would be the entire industry going up in dollar-value as TradFi bank equities get dumped due to uncertainty.
Banking doesn't work without people feeling confident their money is safe
The fact that 100% of Silvergate, SVB, and Signature bank deposits are guaranteed without the use of taxpayer money is very concerning. Stimulus is good, but not when it's too soon / too much.
Fascinating how the Lens profile floor price is the floor price of social capital
smart notice : )
The better the government tries to present situations as, the worse the situation is in reality. This is a foundational principle, from Ray Dalio. The Fed has already scheduled an emergency meeting for 11:30a.m. Monday — you can only imagine how things play out from here.
Crypto never did nothing wrong, the centralized entities dealing/connected with it did. USDC didn't fail because of crypto. It failed because of a bank. FTX didn't fail because of crypto. It failed because of fraud. UST/LUNA didn't fail because of crypto. It failed because it was a ponzi. Crypto never failed the people, the people failed crypto. Get it right.
in all honesty, no but since posts on Lens can be whatever length, I won't be surprised if someone used their Lens profile as a paid newsletter
🤔 tbh I still have issues wrapping my head around paid follows. Do you have 5 profiles you would pay for - and why?
Perhaps it is just a reality of life that true long-lasting perspective comes only with experience.
Post engagement is, in my experience, much better on @lensprotocol.lens than on Twitter, given the very specific niche audience and thus the relatively small user count. However, this engagement will start to become even more valuable after the hopes of a Lens token airdrop are eventually fulfilled/crushed. Because that's when the bots and farmers get filtered off this protocol, leaving only the true users and builders left on board: a tight-knit group of enthusiasts. 🚢🌿
If you don’t aim high you will never hit high.
If you describe your product/service with words like “crypto,” “blockchain,” or “web3” you have already lost the interest of your potential customers before you even get to explain it. I believe we are near the point where the same will be true for "AI," "artificial intelligence," and "GPT."
Not enough people seem to understand this: Lens is the DeSoc base layer for its entire ecosystem — not just for one app like @orbapp.lens, or @lenster.lens, or @phaver.lens. This means that @lensprotocol.lens isn't a protocol for one designated platform. It's an open-source protocol for everyone to build on top of. Lens ≠ Lenster Lens ≠ Orb Lens ≠ Phaver Lens = Lens
The future is the users of the products that we built, not us, (un)fortunately
"So many young people [are] in such a hurry to somewhere, I don't know where. If they just had patience and let life unfold I think that may be a surprise where they ended up." — Ginni Rometty on Lex Fridman
Are we all the future?
One can choose to go back toward safety or forward toward growth. Growth must be chosen again and again; fear must be overcome again and again.
"Bear markets give entrepreneurs time. It takes time to talk to users, test, and iterate. There is no such thing as an overnight success." @stani.lens at #ETHDenver w/ John Paller and @vitalik.lens
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Education departments may have blocked ChatGPT, but fear not — we have Bing.
The @orbapp.lens AI made my own point better than me, lol 😅
One test for DAO hierarchy is through a legal case. Some things to look out for: • How the DAO responds • Who testifies for the DAO, and whether they were voted to represent the DAO or self-elected These points show who has the social leverage in the DAO, who is known for what, and reveals the hierarchy if there is one.
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Daily @lensprotocol.lens.lens users and actions (likes, NFT collects, mirrors, etc.) are skyrocketing along with new accounts 📊 This activity sent the @lensprotocol smart contract to number 4 on Polygon's gas consumption ⛽ We're on a roll!
I'm pretty sure Lens is populated by about 50 real people and 100k bots, but the dopamine hit I get from all the engagement from bots is enough to keep me coming back every day. Weirdly, this might be how Lens turns into a successful social media platform.
You just need to ignore the volatility
Has anyone else noticed the greatly slowed growth in followers on Lens? Since the recent Polygon chain congestion, caused by a GameFi platform called PlanetIX, there have been multiple reports of @lensprotocol.lens and @lenster.lens behaving weirdly. I remember a similar thing happening with a GameFi platform called "Sunflower Land," but that was quickly fixed by their devs. The negligence of PlanetIX is setting the Polygon ecosystem back.
Created a proposal to add cbETH to the Aave V3 "LSD" emode category. this proposal if governance vibes with it will allow both high staking yield via LSD loops & to bet on cbETH re-peg post-shanghai.
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.
the magical 420 🌿 number has been hit
Gm frens，plz say 👋GM👋 back to me！ Try launching a new promotion with wav3s (0.1wmatic each, totaly 5Wmatic). The rule is that people who ▶️follow me ▶️mirror ▶️collect this post will be rewarded. Unfortunately, I can't set a rule for anyone who says GM to me to get a reward. Think about developing this feature haha@wav3s
A token that can dilute like a stock split.
Freedom of any type is a significant amplifier, especially financial freedom. Yet, one's negative flaws often shine brighter than their positives. Characters that are modest in win and failure are the ones you want on your team.