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Hey!, my name is Benjamin Gutiérrez, one of the founders of Wav3s 🤝 and I'm here to tell you the story of how I went from a regular job to living my dream of working full-time on Wav3s. At the end of 2021, together with @cristianvaldivia.lens , another Wav3s founder, we decided to leave our start-up at the peak of success. We were working like crazy without much remuneration, but it was impossible to scale, since we were working with hardware. We knew we wanted to take the plunge and dive into the world of Web 3, since our team meetings always ended up with us discussing the exciting world of blockchain. We had a couple of ideas, but nothing concrete - so each one of us went our own way. I spent the next year automating processes in several companies, while still studying up to launch myself into entrepreneurship in Web3. The second semester of 2022 changed everything. With Cristian, we attended our first crypto event in Argentina - and it just so happened that it was on my birthday! It was one of the best birthdays I've ever had, getting to know the crypto community and projects like Poap , which helped us a lot to connect with more people. But the highlight of the week was when Stani talked about Lens protocol - it blew my head off! 🤯 When I arrived back in Chile, I was disappointed to find that there was not the same level of community and activity. I apply to become a Polygon Guild Mage, to create the Polygon community in Chile. Hundreds of people applied, and luckily I was chosen - I think my travels to Argentina helped. Thanks to being a Polygon Guild Mage, I was given a scholarship to Devcon. We participated in the Hackathon and I still think we should have won a prize, because our product was really good - and the product work perfectly. We created a humanity verification system with Poap, so if you shared POAPs with another person, you could validate them as human - a simple, but useful idea to fight bots. 🤖 Although our project, Verify me or Soureal, didn't work out, I still have a lot of affection for it. We had the chance to meet the entire Lens team, including Stani, and they invited us to rAave and more. 🤗 When we returned to Chile, we met @bvdaniel.lens , the other Wav3s founder, and tested a couple of ideas within the Lens ecosystem. When we made it public on Lens, nobody tested it or even liked it. We felt completely unnoticed, so we decided to create Wav3s, so that everyone could spread their publications through Lens - and the growth it has had, and all the support we've received, still amazes. The conclusion of this story is that one decision can open or close a world of opportunities - so don't be afraid to take a risk, because you may find something even better! 🤩
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Any artists want to do a digital performance Saturday?? @campfirexyz.lens
My genesis Sound.xyz drop is out this week!! 〰️ DRIFT 〰️ Thursday, Jan 26 at 5PM EST live on https://www.sound.xyz/cristinaspinei/drift There are 25 editions available 🎹 I'm one of the only classical musicians on the platform so far and I'm really excited to be able to share my music on Sound!
yesterday we hosted a Q&A on music NFTs with @brokeinvstr.lens . super insightful talk that made us even more bullish on this space. we are ready to start curating relationships with artists and investing in them! who should we listen to first?👀 This post is using @wav3s.lens first 20 with a minimum of 100 followers get 1 WMATIC!
🤲 Create your web3 campaings with @wav3s and join the sharing economy. 🌿 Promote your publications in an organic way that people actually love. ✨ Reach further in the Lensverse by rewarding your loyal community for sharing your content. Try it in 💫 wav3s.app Do you want to know how you can take the most out of @wav3s? Schedule a meeting 👉 https://bit.ly/3QWQ7Cw Are you a developer and you are thinking in integrating your app with wav3s? Reach us here 👉 https://bit.ly/3QWQ7Cw We are happy to help you! Last but not least, we are celebrating more than 2.000 mirrors in posts using @wav3s! And more than 1.000 WMATIC rewarded 🎉🎉🎉🎉 🌊🌊 This post is also a #wav3. Share & Earn!
Nights and Weekends Rise up and dare to dream, for the pursuit of your passions is a journey worth taking. On the nights and weekends, let your feet carry you towards your aspirations, for each step taken is a step closer to realizing your true potential. And know that the love and support of your community will be your guiding light, a beacon of hope and inspiration on your path to greatness. Special shout out to my nephew for being a listening ear for the art. Special shout out to my nephew for being a listening ear for the art.
Nights and Weekends Rise up and dare to dream, for the pursuit of your passions is a journey worth taking. On the nights and weekends, let your feet carry you towards your aspirations, for each step taken is a step closer to realizing your true potential. And know that the love and support of your community will be your guiding light, a beacon of hope and inspiration on your path to greatness. Special shout out to my nephew for being a listening ear for the art. Special shout out to my nephew for being a listening ear for the art.
Nights and Weekends Rise up and dare to dream, for the pursuit of your passions is a journey worth taking. On the nights and weekends, let your feet carry you towards your aspirations, for each step taken is a step closer to realizing your true potential. And know that the love and support of your community will be your guiding light, a beacon of hope and inspiration on your path to greatness. Special shout out to my nephew for being a listening ear for the art. Special shout out to my nephew for being a listening ear for the art.
I'm going to use this space to try iterations on music in the same way we iterate with technology.
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 ⚡️
As @ladidaix said "Lens is a scrapbook for musicians and creatives" a canvas for your creativity that also invites your audience to participate in your work. Cool to see @camtrao' #THORWBACKMUSIC where he is experimenting on Lenster to drop old unreleased tracks. Garage sale for music lovers. https://lenster.xyz/posts/0xf5cf-0x6f
Something happend and I can't hear any music or watch videos on Orb 😥
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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beat of the week 2023, week 1 of 52   "fresh start"   all cover art by @stellarhobbes.lens   #BOTW #impressyourself     @mixtape.lens @oohlala.lens
I have always been fascinated by the question of what makes certain content truly valuable and shareable, and I have spent a lot of time thinking about what motivates people to collect and how to create content that speaks to them on a deeper level. That's why I'm excited to introduce Mint Season 7 to the world. The next 20 episodes will span three months and focus on every aspect of "Creating Content Worth Collecting," a tagline that I hope will inspire more creators to shift their focus from algorithmic virality to creating content of collectible quality. We’ll highlight various forms of tokenized media like music NFTs, podcast NFTs, writing NFTs, film NFTs, video NFTs, and crypto art, and answer questions like: 1. What does it take to create content worth collecting? 2. What are the links between viral distribution and onchain monetization via collection? 3. How can content creators use tokenized media and NFTs to increase value and strengthen relationships with their audience? 4. How will DeFi and tokenized media intersect and develop in the future? 5. What are the main challenges for crypto-native content creators and tokenized media projects and 6. how will they be addressed? 7. How will decentralization change content creation and consumption in the web3 world? 8. Will traditional media adapt to or be replaced by decentralized organizations in the web3 landscape? 9. What challenges and opportunities will the web3 media industry face as it grows and how can they be addressed? 10. How will the user experience of web3 media differ from traditional web media and how will this affect content consumption? I hope that by exploring this topic in-depth, we can help more creators understand what makes content valuable to collect and how to create content worth collecting that resonates with their audience. This season, listeners will hear from a variety of high-profile creators, savvy collectors, and ambitious founders on their strategies for producing collectible content. We’ll hear from: • Farokh -- Founder of Rug Radio. • Robin Schmidt -- Founder of BasedAF. • Zack Guzman -- Host of Coinage Media. • Alice Ma -- Co-Founder of Mad Realties. • Jacob Horne -- Co-Founder of Zora Protocol. • Chase Chapman -- Host of the OthersidePod. • Diana Chen -- Host of Rehash Podcast. • Aidan Musnitzky -- Founder of Spinamp. • Christina Beltramini -- Head of Growth at The Aave Companies (Lens Protocol). • 0xLucas -- Head of Web3 at Bankless. • Gami -- Founder of Gnars DAO. • Peter Saputo -- Music NFT Artist. • Roberto Nickson -- Founder of Metav3rse. • Pplpleasr -- Legendary, crypto-native digital artist. • TK the Legend -- Music NFT Artist. • BlockchainBrett -- Partner at Palm Tree Club. • John Crain -- Founder of SuperRare. • Sam Sends -- Co-Founder of Glass Protocol. • RŌHKI -- Web3-native music collective. • Colin Armstrong -- Founder of Paragraph I'm showcasing Lens Protocol and Bello.lol this season, who's collected the podcast’s soulbound NFTs, granting them promotional utility throughout the season. I also thank Cointelegraph and CryptoSlate, this season's media partners. The season is available to enjoy across all video and audio streaming platforms and new social apps built on Lens Protocol, such as Lenstube and Lensterxyz. I'm excited to focus more of my efforts on this mindset shift. One of the reasons I launch new seasons with accompanying themes is to get answers to my personal questions and curate the right people to provide insight on the topic. That’s how I organized Mint Season 1 and how I will continue to lead future seasons to come. **Keep up with the podcast season by subscribing to my newsletter and getting notified when new episodes are available** ➡️ https://adamlevy.io/mint-season-7. ------ **Additional Resources** Collect Season 7's free subscriber NFT on Mirror: https://levy.mirror.xyz/M2wQQhvkt8ayvdKFiN1wbx_ANfJ2ry0pbFsHGcpVkKY
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Building an application to share beats, loops, and samples for musicians.
Last-minute building for music producers, artists, and creators. Finally got a goal for demo day. 🚀
The holidays can be an incredibly lonely time for many 🎄♥️ If you are feeling alone, please know you are loved and appreciated, and you bring so much value to the world If things are bad now, please know they won’t be that way forever And if you feel like giving up, please know there’s hope for a brighter tomorrow Do not hesitate to reach out if you need encouragement I’m wishing you a happy, healthy, relaxing, and reenergizing winter break May the love and peace you give be the love and peace you receive ✨ #MerryChristmas #HappyHolidays #SeasonsGreetings
F*ck it, it's the holiday and tipsy off this eggnog lol. Here's a demo recorded Jan. 2020 and hasn't hit DSPs yet. Apart of me wants to get someone on the hook, but also like the giving room to breathe in between the verses. I'll figure something out, BUT if you're not hip to my #AfterhOurz sound and brand I've been building over the years, this is a little introduction into that world.
The music experience on Lens is underrated. I'm following: - @campfirexyz.lens - @oohlala.lens The collectives and labels in this space are innovative.
Orb makes Lens so much easier to use. Mobile for the win. The UI/UX and features 🔥
Looks like we're hanging out over here.
Finally making my first post on @lenster.lens !