Leo Simon (@leosimon) • Hey
venture @telah
Publications
- Just released Magi v1 : https://magi.lol/
instances & frames for Farcaster, $degen, $higher and $enjoy
new landing page & form to add your memecoin
will ship new features for community building in the next days
- Memes.
- What's something you can build on Lens that is impossible on Farcaster ? 👀
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- Create & remix your own albums 🎶
Log-in with Spotify, pick your favorite artist & generate albums made for you.
Try it now : https://albumify.xyz
- Wow Orb UI is pretty crazy tbh
- gm
- Hey Lens, it's been a while :)
- We're launching the first Web2 vampire attack on Spotify. https://twitter.com/AmpyMP3/status/1702300711021666771
- We dissolve data silos into new ways to consume & monetize music, through Web2 & Web3.
- Fandom is probably one of the most over-used word in Web3 consumer apps.
Unpopular opinion, but I feel like the Western market is not yet ready for it. We should target Asian market—that is way ahead of us in this.
Just look at Weverse, with +50M of users : https://weverse.io
- “You can't do anything onchain right now”
Agreed, except :
- Buying ID Cards (Palau)
- Getting a new permissionless OS (Urbit)
- Using crypto to pay for groceries (HolyHeld)
- Hosting stuff (Filecoin / Arweave)
- Chatting, video call, streaming, ... (Lens, XMTP, Livepeer)
- Betting on a football game (Thales)
- ...
- Music is stuck in the past.
We are unlocking the music data layer.
- Music fans 🎶
Are not 🔴
Fungible 🙅
Our AMA with Polygon is available on YouTube.
→ Learn how we empower artists to identify, segment (& monetize) their fans.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cpwk07STkTQ
- We have a solution.
- Great question. Fediverse won't scale simple as that. It works actually to something like Discord which is how Mastodon operates. Mastodon is even more challenging since if someone hosts a server and decides to take it down, there is going to be loss of content.
We already see issue with the scaling with Bluesky as they are trying to scale the whole system to every users. The most effective way to have real decentralized social is by using blockchain for identities/profiles and even audiences and Data Availability layers for content (similarly what Momoka is doing).
The scaling issue comes with the syncronization with all these servers or hubs (whatever you call them). With Momoka, all data goes to a one shared db. I think @ryanfox.lens had somewhere a good take on this as well.
I personally would see Fediverse suitable for some kind of third party discord hosting than anything else for now in terms of use-cases.
But underlying technology might change for apps, I did see Twitter dumping Ruby on Rails as it didn't scale for them either, while Twitter was the flagship for RoR.
- Key differences:
**Decentralization:**
Fediverse - Server/Hub/Database layer
Lens - User layer
The Fediverse is trying to figure out how to decentralize control of the database. Many fiefdoms developing on separate timelines, sometimes unified, sometimes sovereign.
The Lens design assumes everyone agrees on the database. It's a positive sum environment with everyone working in the same direction. Everyone adds value to the same structure no matter how small the contribution. Currently the Lens team assumes Polygon + Momoka is satisfactory to everyone using it. The Lens design could be replicated on other chains and private databases. It assumes the database is a solved problem.
**Core Component:**
Fediverse - Messages
Lens - NFT
Messages are structurally different than NFTs. Messages require broadcasting, syncing, redundancy, etc. They are limited in what they can do. Messages can be used to create a database, and that is something they are still struggling to actually solve.
NFTs are data in a database.
Anyone can Read/Write to the database at any time. No syncing, no broadcasting. Anyone can make use of/add value to the data.
**Personal Example:**
I roast coffee. I could build a coffee app that shows all the coffee I roast and give away to friends, and I could use Lens posts to store that data, either as open data or encrypted, free or charge for it. Anyone else could use that data for their own app, like a Coffee Rating app similar to Untappd for coffee, using Lens posts as the data.
Because the core component of Lens is chunks of ownable data, rather than messages, it isn’t limited to Feed-based metrics and activities. It’s basically limitless because it’s bound to database-metrics and activities, and you can do anything with a database.
**Metrics:**
The Fediverse Messages require Feeds, Feeds require attention (Followers).
Lens requires Users.
This means you can build Lens communities which are measured by their actions/use of the data, rather than by Followers. You can measure Top Supporters, Top Collectors, Top Contributors, Top Collaborators, etc. It's not limited to "attention."
Lens makes use of a database, and therefore it’s an additive experience. Any app in the world can add Lens to their existing database.
The Fediverse can enable having Threads next to Instagram (feeds next to feeds).
Lens can enable that plus something like Reddit karma in Twitter (actions next to anything).
- What's Lens position about the fediverse ? 👀
- 🌟 Composability maximalist : Lens
📄 Content maximalist : Farcaster
🤬 Uncensorability maximalist : Nostr
- Would be great to see Lens clients innovate in UI.
For example, the plebstr Nostr client is one of the best social media experience I've seen recently.
Improve discovery, gesture and simplicity.
- There is way too much bots out there.
- Gnosis Safes are so cool.
But so inadapted to NFTs at the moment.
I can't even use OpenSea with them.
- Lmao
- I just signed the Glass Manifesto and got early access to claim The Glass Pass. See you on @glassxyz.lens :
https://glass.xyz/manifesto
- Who's building a governance forum based on Lens ? Would be awesome to have an on-chain alternative, with consistent identity.
- dookey dash could be considered as the third-biggest individual e-sport event of all time (in terms of cash price)
- it's funny how
everyone onboarded crypto
by doing something illegal
whether it was buying drugs
buying cs:go skins
gambling on online cazin0
but silicon folks
keep diabolizing ponzis
embrace it
- Gm 🔥
- Thoughts on this ?
- How to get more interaction on Lens 🙈
- np
https://open.spotify.com/track/7C37yaKPoOJHUvlNYv991q?si=8FXpzEgJS8SJbuKObqRO9A
- Rollups-as-a-Service will probably one of the biggest trend in the next few months. My bet is most of big dApps will migrate to a L2 or L3 (posting batches on Optimism).
Do you think Lens will scale by launching their own rollup ?
- @orbapp.lens is the best Lens experience I've tried so far. Great front-end.
- Gm Lens 🥳
- Hey Lens !
- Cool 👀
- Music is the most consumed art in people’s life, but the least in terms of revenues.
More than a decade has passed since we had the last major shift in this industry.
A new one might be just around the corner...
- lmao
- This.
- Congrats to @lensprotocol.lens for crossing 100k profiles, 500k posts and 200k mirror (almost) at the same time.
- Boba is deploying their rollups with great partnerships on BSC and Avalanche, you should definitely have a look 👀
→ https://boba.network/an-avalanche-of-boba-is-coming/
→ https://boba.network/boba-network-bnb-chain-l2-live/
- Introducing CultivatorDAO 🧑🌾👩🌾 the first Web3 social DAO designed for open, decentralized content moderation on Lens Protocol. It is the first solution for addressing spam, bots, and other risks that can damage your social graph.
CultivatorDAO is optional - meaning it can be "turned on" by developers and/or users - and helps address spam, mitigate the risk of bots, and further curate the social graph across the ecosystem.
CultivatorDAO is also forkable, meaning the Lens community can fork the DAO and create their own version that caters to their specific needs for content moderation.
We believe that open, decentralized content moderation leads to more user-centric web that is resistant to abuse and censorship. We are excited to see what the Lens developer community builds out 🏡
Read more in our blog: https://mirror.xyz/lensprotocol.eth/pIzwjs9uhH8eSS1Bx0K1r-3iHEgLlBt6ruPXcEJe0S0
- "What Will Ethereum Miners do After The Merge?" from Messari
- Numerous large-scale miners plan to pivot towards a data center-oriented business.
- Miners can contribute their GPUs toward Web3 protocols like the Render Network, Livepeer, and Akash.
- 90% of miners are GPU-based, while the other 10% are ASIC-based.
→ The problem with ASICs is that they can’t be repurposed for different applications besides mining ETH. Ethereum Classic is the only other PoW coin that can be mined with an ETH ASIC, since its hashing algorithm is compatible with ETH’s algorithm.
→ It’s likely that ZK mining follows a similar path where it begins with standard GPU miners before more efficient hardware is developed (ASICs or field-programmable gate arrays). ZKPs are still in their infancy, but Paradigm predicts the ZK miners/provers market could be as large as the PoW mining in the near future.
- gm all! 👋
Today I wanted to introduce you to Sismo and explain you what ZK Badges are 🧵⬇️
(stay until the end, there might be a badge to mint 👀🎁)
What is Sismo?
Sismo is « a modular Attestations Protocol focused on decentralization, privacy and usability. »
But what concretely does it mean?
Sismo enable you to prove on Ethereum to anyone, thanks to one of your addresses, that you are, have or did something. Theses proofs are represented by badges, which are non-transferable NFTs (ERC-1155 tokens). To be allowed to mint a badge, your address must be in the group of eligible addresses associated to it.
But now what if you could prove something with an address but receive the badge on another without any link between these two 👀
So proving something without doxing the address you used to prove it.
That’s what ZK Badges allow us to do!
With Sismo you prove directly in your browser that your address is part of a group of eligible addresses. It uses zk-SNARK technology.
Let’s take a simple example: you can prove, on an anon address (destination address), that you own a conference POAP, by using your ENS address (source address) which contain that POAP. And vice versa. But of course your source address allow you to only mint one badge on the destination address of your choice, no more.
This is a simple example but you can imagine much more useful ones!
There are obvious uses cases for Sismo and ZK Badges such as Sybil resistance. By the way Sismo has already shipped a “Sybil resistance” ZK Badge using Proof Of Humanity, go check this out: https://twitter.com/Sismo_eth/status/1569668644497510402?s=20&t=texAnda3oLd9C1iRjfFCdQ
So this allow you to prove that you are a human on an anon address using your POH registration (doxed) address. It’s not perfect yet but it’s a start and it shows how ZK Badges can be powerfull! 🔥
Privacy is necessary in the IT world and even more in an ecosystem like Ethereum where all our interaction are public. That’s why Sismo will help us to create anonymity on top of these concepts and more…
Now lt’s time for the little gift! 🎁
If you want to try out Sismo and get your very first ZK Badge ➡️ **Mirror** this post
Then, from 02/10/2022 you will be able to mint the badge associated to the proof that you Mirrored this post. I will let you now when it’s available and the steps to follow to mint it :))
Thanks for reading this thread and welcome to Sismo anon! :))
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- gm