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Which of Reddit NFTs did y’all degens get?
How many of y’all are off twitter for good?
I've blocked Twitter via my /etc/hosts for the week 😁
I’ve been playing around with AI and really enjoy the work the team at autogpt is putting in. They have an insane merge cadence right now. Go help them out and review a PR. https://github.com/Significant-Gravitas/Auto-GPT
The D_D Mentorship is about to launch for season 2 🚀 D_D members who want to become mentors or get mentored on design, development, developer relations, or founding, get on! Deadline: next Tuesday Find the signup forms on Discord! https://buff.ly/3Ia4bpc
The D_D Mentorship is about to launch for season 2 🚀 D_D members who want to become mentors or get mentored on design, development, developer relations, or founding, get on! Deadline: next Tuesday Find the signup forms on Discord! https://buff.ly/3Ia4bpc
The D_D Mentorship is about to launch for season 2 🚀 D_D members who want to become mentors or get mentored on design, development, developer relations, or founding, get on! Deadline: next Tuesday Find the signup forms on Discord! https://buff.ly/3Ia4bpc
It has been interesting to work on @wav3s, but something is troubling me. We are just getting started with the new marketing tools, this is serious, the following features in @wav3s will change everything again, and that scares me a little. What do you think, do you like receiving rewards for sharing posts? Do you think it can make the feed dirty with bad content?
Let's make a playlist! It's simple. Reply with your favorite song of all time and earn through amplification. Mirror to get .5 MATIC + 100% royalties on collects from your mirror. I will make a Spotify playlist and Notion list of all the songs people reply with and share here. Collect fee goes 100% to people for royalties on their mirrors. Would love to get a good response so this playlist can be epic! No genre is off limits, but please be nice about avoiding vulgarities. Oh yeah, you have to follow me to participate. You didn't think I would do this solely out of the goodness of my heart, did you?! #lens #lensplaylist #lensmusic #music #wav3s #playlist
If you were given US$100,000 EXCLUSIVELY to invest on Lens Apps or Creators. Who would you invest in ? First 50 people to Comment, Follow and Mirror get 0,15 WMATIC each. Must have +150 followers to receive the reward
Feeling curious about using 🌊@wav3s to promote your content? Want to know how it works? Watch this demo tutorial we made for you 🌿
gm lens frens! this #wav3 is for recording http://www.wav3s.app new demo! #LMCC!
How Wav3s just opened pandora's box for an entire revolution of the creator and user economy. “What happened?” Wav3s, an app on Lens protocol, has launched a feature that allows users to create contracts to pay for content to be mirrored. The feature allows for customization of payment to creators, the number of people who can be paid to post, and the number of followers required. However, these are only the tip of the iceberg when it comes to feature specifications and when it comes to creating post bounties for creators. Here are just some examples of specifications that could be added which significantly increase the precision of distribution of content. Using some sort of oracle to validate a weekly active user count of creator’s followers, making the reward of the bounty only earnable when an amount of blocks has been elapsed on the blockchain since the last mirror (example every 100 blocks), or the amount of mirrors a creator garners from their mirror (so I mirror Orb and must get 5 mirrors in order to get paid by the contract). The possibilities and flexibilities are virtually endless. If you can imagine a mechanism to design an on chain bounty it's almost certainly possible. This is revolutionary for the creator economy and the velocity of distribution on Lens. Distribution has been the key criticism of web3 social, the counter argument is that I can reach 1,000 people on twitter, so why should I post on lens? This solves the problem because with very little capital because aligned creators will get paid for distribution. This turns the current web2 concept of distribution on its head because instead of a 3rd party getting paid for increased distribution, the creators themselves are being paid for access to their audiences. Creators are also incentivized to provide value aligned content to their users because their users can opt out of their feed if it's just spam wav3s content. Spamming content also becomes highly capital inefficient because bots will be outcompeted by creators. Additionally, well constructed bounties could trigger a trickle down affect from revenue generated by creators directly to their audience. Let's go back to the earlier example of paying a creator when their audience mirrors their mirror for further distribution, it behooves the creator to create a bounty themselves of around 10-50% of their potential revenue with the following logic, when 5 mirrors are achieved, the first 5 mirrors are payed out X matic. This contract logic incentives this trickledown economy from creators to their audience making good audiences valuable. The better quality the audience is, the more valuable it becomes. For instance 5k bot followers under specific logic encompassing daily activity, daily active followers, ext can really weed out botted content, and both content advertisers and creators are incentivized to not post spam because it comes at the loss of network status and capital loss. This concept also provides the opportunity for publicly funded content distribution encompassing a pay to mirror contract to be constructed and allowed to be perpetually funded by any address to fund the payment of the contract to creators. Furthermore, the distribution mechanism that all contracts like wav3s's genesis will create the opportunity for a revolution in the creator economy and the bloom of an user economy. Thank you creatoors and users for reading my thoughts on the current new state of Lens. Special thanks to everyone at wav3s of course as well!
Next Level Feature if @wav3s.lens detected how many new timelines your mirror appeared on, not just how many followers you have.
New update alert 🥁🥁🥁 The Orb app just got even cooler with chat and tons of new features! Check out these sneak peeks of all the awesomeness!
The Lens team continues to ship 🚢 hop aboard! 💨 0.3.0 💨 **Improvements in this release** We added new hooks to enable some useful features for our community, some highlights below 👇 🪞Ability to Mirror a publication 👋Ability to report publication ⚡️Consolidated interface of several hooks for better consistency and ease of use 🫣Hide publications can now be enabled 👌More features to manage your profiles 🚀 Get Started https://docs.lens.xyz/docs/sdk-react-getting-started 🛠️ Get Technical here https://github.com/lens-protocol/lens-sdk **What's New?** - Added capability to filter by event type in useFeed hook. - Added isValidHandle validation helper - Added signless support to useUpdatedProfileImage hook - Added useProfilesOwnedBy hook - Added useReportPublication hook - Added useWhoCollectedPublication hook - Added useCreateMirror hook - Added useActiveProfileSwitcher hook - Added useProfilePublicationRevenue hook - Added useUpdateDispatcherConfig hook - Added useHidePublication hook - Added useUpdateFollowPolicy hook - Added useUpdateProfileImage hook - Added useEnabledModules hook - Consolidate useWalletLogin, useWalletLogout, and useActiveWallet interface - Simplified async error handling
**Woop Pay** is officially live at http://wooppay.xyz! Requesting cryptocurrency payments won’t be the same again. With a simple, fast, and secure web application, we’re making it easier than ever to request payments in web3 💪
A lot has happened over the past few months in the @LensProtocol ecosystem. In this thread I want to highlight some of the projects, updates, and products we or the community has shipped over the past year and also shed some light on what's coming next. 🌿❤️‍🔥⚡️ For anyone unfamiliar with @LensProtocol - Lens is a protocol, API, and suite of tools that enables developers to easily and quickly build social media applications, or integrate social features like follows, likes, publications, profiles, and encrypted chat. Since the official launch on Polygon on May 18: https://twitter.com/LensProtocol/status/1526944792013316097 ... there have been around 100 apps that I would consider serious that are being built or that have launched on Lens. https://www.lens.xyz/apps There are also many apps integrating Lens social features into existing apps. This use case will be a popular and growing one this year as it is a low lift and requires minimal work, but with a lot of upside. Want to parse social posts in your wallet? Lens Want to add a comments section to your blog? Lens Already have posts/comments but want to add Collects, linked re-posts, and linked likes to your posts? Lens Want to add a discussion forum to your site that's token-gated for your DAO? Lens Want to leverage a user base of x hundreds of thousands (or in the future, x millions) of users without having to bootstrap a network from scratch? Lens! Like managed services and cloud computing has abstracted away the need to build abd maintain complex back end infrastructure from scratch, Lens abstracts away to the need for developers to build and maintain the infrastructure necessary to implement social features themselves. Whether or not Lens is built on traditional or decentralized technologies should not matter to the average user or developer. At the end of the day, many of the features provided by Lens are only made possibly by blockchains and decentralized protocols like Arweave and IPFS, but they should not be at the forefront of the discussion. Instead, the applications should speak for themselves: the UX and value proposition should be compelling enough on their own for the average internet user or developer to want to use or build on Lens, regardless of the underlying tech stack. Part of providing a compelling UX is abstracting away the need to know about or understand blockchains and wallets at all. As of now, this is not part of the average Lens front-end, but is something we'll be considering this year as we move toward scaling Lens to >50,000 TPS and enabling permissionless access to the protocol (both of which are on our somewhat near-term roadmap). For developers, we plan to double down on providing the best possible DX we can offer for developers. Last year we made consistent updates and improvements to our docs and API and launched two new SDKS: Lens React SDK https://twitter.com/dabit3/status/1606383208089718794 and React Native Lens UI Kit https://twitter.com/dabit3/status/1600188853297377280 We have a lot of plans for these two libraries, and will also be considering shipping additional products to facilitate and improve the ease of development for devs building on or integrating Lens. The engineering team led by @wagmi continues to ship new updates to the Lens API at a rapid pace. You can keep up with the updates by following LensAPI on Lens: @lensapi A small handful of highlights I will call out that were shipped last year: - gated publications powered by @LitProtocol - dispatcher enabling signless transactions - optimistic UI updates - feed highlights - degrees of separation - profile interests + many many others In November, Lens adopted @xmtplabs to provide secure, private, and encrypted profile-to-profile DMs for the entire Lens ecosystem. This was huge as it was one of the most requested features from Lens users and the reception has been incredible. https://twitter.com/xmtp_/status/1588200030820704257 The Lens grants program has deployed funds to over 50 teams building on Lens. We plan to continue working closely with, and providing support for, certain developers and teams who are building interesting or valuable applications on Lens through our grants program and / or providing engineering support through private channels. We will be attending, mentoring, participating, and sponsoring strategic events in 2023, including branching out into more traditional "web2" events. We plan to attend all major @ETHGlobal events, DevCon, & a few other web3 / blockchain events. We also plan to create small to medium-sized meetup-type events this year in cities around the world starting with Sao Paulo in a couple of weeks. Here, people can meet others in their community who are using or building on Lens, and also get allow-listed for a profile until permissionless access is enabled for everyone. There is a lot of hype around web3 social right now: https://twitter.com/ljin18/status/1610688970173878272 I agree that 2023 will be a huge year for web3 social and for Lens. We are focused, motivated, and excited to continue building off of the momentum created last year to make 2023 a breakout year for Lens. There is a lot more happening outside of DevRel, with dedicated teams working with creators (@christina & @bradorbradley) and also other areas of focus like integrations and partnerships. I have not done a good job highlighting everything else happening in the ecosystem and with the other teams. If you do want to keep up, follow Lens team members on Lens and on Twitter, starting with: @christina @bradorbradley @fabri @yoginth @stani @paris @donosonaumczuk @wagmi @davidev @sasicodes @pealco That wraps up this overview. I'm beyond excited and motivated about what we will be working on this year and invite you enjoy the ride with us! If you've made it this far congratulations, you can earn 1 WMATIC by simply mirroring this post (up to 200 WMATIC) 🌿
A lot has happened over the past few months in the @LensProtocol ecosystem. In this thread I want to highlight some of the projects, updates, and products we or the community has shipped over the past year and also shed some light on what's coming next. 🌿❤️‍🔥⚡️ For anyone unfamiliar with @LensProtocol - Lens is a protocol, API, and suite of tools that enables developers to easily and quickly build social media applications, or integrate social features like follows, likes, publications, profiles, and encrypted chat. Since the official launch on Polygon on May 18: https://twitter.com/LensProtocol/status/1526944792013316097 ... there have been around 100 apps that I would consider serious that are being built or that have launched on Lens. https://www.lens.xyz/apps There are also many apps integrating Lens social features into existing apps. This use case will be a popular and growing one this year as it is a low lift and requires minimal work, but with a lot of upside. Want to parse social posts in your wallet? Lens Want to add a comments section to your blog? Lens Already have posts/comments but want to add Collects, linked re-posts, and linked likes to your posts? Lens Want to add a discussion forum to your site that's token-gated for your DAO? Lens Want to leverage a user base of x hundreds of thousands (or in the future, x millions) of users without having to bootstrap a network from scratch? Lens! Like managed services and cloud computing has abstracted away the need to build abd maintain complex back end infrastructure from scratch, Lens abstracts away to the need for developers to build and maintain the infrastructure necessary to implement social features themselves. Whether or not Lens is built on traditional or decentralized technologies should not matter to the average user or developer. At the end of the day, many of the features provided by Lens are only made possibly by blockchains and decentralized protocols like Arweave and IPFS, but they should not be at the forefront of the discussion. Instead, the applications should speak for themselves: the UX and value proposition should be compelling enough on their own for the average internet user or developer to want to use or build on Lens, regardless of the underlying tech stack. Part of providing a compelling UX is abstracting away the need to know about or understand blockchains and wallets at all. As of now, this is not part of the average Lens front-end, but is something we'll be considering this year as we move toward scaling Lens to >50,000 TPS and enabling permissionless access to the protocol (both of which are on our somewhat near-term roadmap). For developers, we plan to double down on providing the best possible DX we can offer for developers. Last year we made consistent updates and improvements to our docs and API and launched two new SDKS: Lens React SDK https://twitter.com/dabit3/status/1606383208089718794 and React Native Lens UI Kit https://twitter.com/dabit3/status/1600188853297377280 We have a lot of plans for these two libraries, and will also be considering shipping additional products to facilitate and improve the ease of development for devs building on or integrating Lens. The engineering team led by @wagmi continues to ship new updates to the Lens API at a rapid pace. You can keep up with the updates by following LensAPI on Lens: @lensapi A small handful of highlights I will call out that were shipped last year: - gated publications powered by @LitProtocol - dispatcher enabling signless transactions - optimistic UI updates - feed highlights - degrees of separation - profile interests + many many others In November, Lens adopted @xmtplabs to provide secure, private, and encrypted profile-to-profile DMs for the entire Lens ecosystem. This was huge as it was one of the most requested features from Lens users and the reception has been incredible. https://twitter.com/xmtp_/status/1588200030820704257 The Lens grants program has deployed funds to over 50 teams building on Lens. We plan to continue working closely with, and providing support for, certain developers and teams who are building interesting or valuable applications on Lens through our grants program and / or providing engineering support through private channels. We will be attending, mentoring, participating, and sponsoring strategic events in 2023, including branching out into more traditional "web2" events. We plan to attend all major @ETHGlobal events, DevCon, & a few other web3 / blockchain events. We also plan to create small to medium-sized meetup-type events this year in cities around the world starting with Sao Paulo in a couple of weeks. Here, people can meet others in their community who are using or building on Lens, and also get allow-listed for a profile until permissionless access is enabled for everyone. There is a lot of hype around web3 social right now: https://twitter.com/ljin18/status/1610688970173878272 I agree that 2023 will be a huge year for web3 social and for Lens. We are focused, motivated, and excited to continue building off of the momentum created last year to make 2023 a breakout year for Lens. There is a lot more happening outside of DevRel, with dedicated teams working with creators (@christina & @bradorbradley) and also other areas of focus like integrations and partnerships. I have not done a good job highlighting everything else happening in the ecosystem and with the other teams. If you do want to keep up, follow Lens team members on Lens and on Twitter, starting with: @christina @bradorbradley @fabri @yoginth @stani @paris @donosonaumczuk @wagmi @davidev @sasicodes @pealco That wraps up this overview. I'm beyond excited and motivated about what we will be working on this year and invite you enjoy the ride with us! If you've made it this far congratulations, you can earn 1 WMATIC by simply mirroring this post (up to 200 WMATIC) 🌿
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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 ⚡️
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 ⚡️
This is the future of content amplification 🌊
Lensdrop - Gain more followers and boost engagements on Lens Gm Lens fam ☀️ Here is an introductory video of Lensdrop, a marketing tool for web3 social. Lensdrop lets you gain more followers and boost audience engagement on your Lens Profile with airdrops and special prizes. This video explains what Lensdrop is, gives an overview of its features, and also explains how to use it. Mirror this video to stand a chance to win something special.
Lensdrop - Gain more followers and boost engagements on Lens Gm Lens fam ☀️ Here is an introductory video of Lensdrop, a marketing tool for web3 social. Lensdrop lets you gain more followers and boost audience engagement on your Lens Profile with airdrops and special prizes. This video explains what Lensdrop is, gives an overview of its features, and also explains how to use it. Mirror this video to stand a chance to win something special.
I'm trying out @wav3s - a tool that lets you pay users who share your content on Lens! 🌿 You can earn 1 Matic by simply mirroring this post (up to 100 Matic)! 🌟 I really love that we can monetize and pay directly through the platform. This is the power of web3 social ⚡️ (gm) Good luck!
It’s important to take time for you, and build things that make you happy. I’ve been wanting to do this for well over three years and I finally had time. I built an LED sign that lets me show notifications. It works by using ESPHome and HomeAssistant to connect to various services and show notifications. Did you build something this holiday season?
I’ve been playing with an authentication bug for like 4 days for persisting sessions with lens. I was trying to persist data in local storage from the server. You ever have those weeks
I shipped something. Send money with Lens. Use at your own risk. https://lensend.xyz
How long do you spend working on an mvp before saying fuck it and shipping?
What are you building on lens?
gm buildspace peeps
gm D_D friends
Unpopular opinion: For lens to reach larger adoption it will need to loose some its web3 culture smell.
I can get paid to mirror posts. What a concept
How do y’all feel about the big blue vote going on right now?
gm! I'm building Buttrfly, an iOS app for @lensprotocol and the alpha build is dropping soon! If anyone would like to test and provide feedback please DM me here or on Twitter. 🦋 × 🌿
This post has a sneak peek of what I’m working on: https://blog.developerdao.com/how-lens-protocol-changes-non-social-networks See if you can guess what it is below 👇
What would you want to see in a dev starter kit for lens? I’m thinking: - A responsive app frame - A GraphQL setup with apollo with a few common queries and mutations setup for https://api.lens.dev - A sign-in with lens button hooked up with authentication - A good license - Server-side rendering - Non-lens backend setup for handling API requests that aren’t just lens
Anyone else hate Ticketmaster with a passion that only taylor swift tickets can fix?
Things you can build on the above: - Profile interests: You could build a trending tab that gives you the most popular accounts by their interests. Docs here: https://docs.lens.xyz/docs/profile-interests - Gated Publications: Private profile posts for members of an NFT community or on chain friend group. Also can limit posts to followers only which allows a basic private account. You could build a members only platform like Patreon. Docs: https://docs.lens.xyz/docs/gated - Default Profile selected: Users will now always (mostly) have a username! UI improvements across the board. No longer need to actively support using accounts as usernames. You can build a link shortener that uses your .lens every time. Docs: https://docs.lens.xyz/docs/create-set-default-profile-typed-data - Video Upload and Transcoding through API: wild things here are enabled through infra changes. It will open the protocol to lower bandwidth regions and simplify data upload. It’s now much easier to build a video platform like Cameo. Docs: https://docs.lens.xyz/docs/media
Hey 👋🏻 I created an NFT. All proceeds will be going to individuals, DAOs, and groups that are furthering the #web3 ecosystem. If you would like to mint an NFT the mint URL is https://mint.shadowysupercoder.dev If you have suggestions on who I should donate some of the proceeds tag them down below 👇🏻
Wrote a Blog post about how Lens protocol changes non social networks at a fundamental level that was published by Developer DAO. Have a read: https://blog.developerdao.com/how-lens-protocol-changes-non-social-networks?utm_source=Lens
Hello, world! 👋 I'm Haardik - I spend my time building @learnweb3hq.lens, and aside from education, am a massive DID maxi since that's one of the highest-impact technologies in web3 imo. Looking forward to being here more often 🎉
Where do y’all get your WMATIC? Want to start tipping
got my first hard wallet 🔥
Working with a cross-chain dex (also enables cross chain messaging), and looking to get set up on Lens asap
gn What did you build today?
I build this for Chainlink Fall 2022 Hackathon. You need to change your network to Mumbai. https://socialdefi.fly.dev/login It is under development.
The first full iOS Native Lens app: @lentilapp.lens :)