Today marks our 1 Year Anniversary of making friends onchain 🎂!

Thank you to everyone who has made the first year of Lens Protocol so special and groundbreaking. Lens has brought together builders, creators, communities, and friends, all while in beta.

There's so much planned for the second year ahead, and we can't wait to continue to grow with all of you.

Who did you become frens with on Lens? 

🎨 by @nftsushi.lens and all collect proceeds go directly to the artist.

Introducing Bonsai, an Optimistic L3 scaling solution, that will process transactions at hyper-scale, and is designed to support the next generation of web3 social users.

Available for Lens devs in closed beta today.

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 Bonsai.

Bonsai serves as a scaling solution that processes Polygon transactions off-chain, achieving hyperscale and reducing costs. Unlike L2 solutions, Bonsai 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.

Bonsai makes the future of decentralized social possible.

We've worked relentlessly with the @bundlr-network.lens work 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.

Bonsai is currently only being beta tested on @lensterxyz.

We look forward to seeing more applications roll out Bonsai.

Dive into the dev docs here: docs.lens.xyz/docs/data-availability-post

Explore: bonsai.lens.xyz

Read our latest blog here: mirror.xyz/lensprotocol.eth/3Hcl0dGE8AOYmnFolzqO6hJuueDHdsaCs3ols2ruc9E

gm #lensfam

I haven’t posted in a while, so here’s a really long music-tech related post to make up for it - @orbapp.lens TLDR bot do your stuff! 🤖

As some of you might know, I love designing and building systems for recording and mixing as much as I love creating music. A couple weeks ago I was helping my friend @jamieforsyth.lens install a solar-powered music studio on his forest property in California. Side note: he just joined Lens so give him a follow! 💯

The studio is built inside an old shipping container. Before I arrived Jamie had single-handedly completed the construction, interior framing, acoustic insulation and electrical (this guy is the epitome of DIY ethos)! Only the finishing touches were left on construction, so we started the week finishing up the ceiling, and building the mixing & production desk. The goal was to install the studio equipment and start making some sounds by the end of my trip.

Before I arrived we spent several months discussing options for the recording and playback system. The challenge was to build a system that required minimal components (given the space constraints), and low-power since it would run on solar. We first experimented with the idea of using a single computer to run all software applications. See my previous post describing this setup: lenster.xyz/posts/0x019d96-0x077d

After some experiments I realized the single computer solution was not ideal and the studio would likely need two machines. A comment from @ryanfox.lens on the post linked above helped me remember that Jamie was using an Avid S3, which is a control surface with an AVB audio interface. AVB (Audio Video Bridging) is a networking protocol that provides routing of audio, video and control data over a compatible Gigabit network switch. In short, the forest studio could run audio over IP! This solution would allow us to connect all of the equipment using simple CAT 5e Ethernet cables, providing I/O between the two computers.

I use IP audio and video protocols at my work, and love the flexibility and ease of routing. Having worked with analog audio systems for many years, it’s instantly gratifying to route multi-channel audio (up to 500 channels in the case of AVB) over one single Ethernet cable! 😮 Analog audio requires a LOT of cabling and interconnects (increasing the potential for failure) and usually provides only a single connection to a computer interface. With audio over IP, the signals on the network become available to any system on that same network.

So, we implemented an AVB switch in the studio as the main device to connect the components; the Avid S3, all computers, a 16-channel AVB stage box, and a wireless access point for internet. We brought the studio online, and got most of the devices talking and listening to each other. Unfortunately, the stage box was defective, so we couldn’t patch the drum mics for multi-track recording. We also ran into some unexpected computer problems, so the last two days were spent troubleshooting, which left only a single afternoon to make some sounds. 🤷🏻‍♂️

We successfully connected two computers and the S3 to the AVB switch, giving us stereo playback and a couple of input channels to record with. One thing we did discover was the sound of the speakers and drum kit in the shipping container were amazing!! 🤯Seriously - I’ve worked in some really nice rooms, and the acoustics in this little studio just sounded super sharp. I’m guessing it has something to do with the surrounding forest exterior! 🌳🌲🥁🔊

It would have been nice to see the entire system come online, but with only six days to get this thing up and running, I think we did alright (given the complications and the constant rain). All in all, I’m just happy to have spent some time with my best friend working on cool stuff. And we did get some nice weather on my last day, so we were finally able to swing the container doors open and let the sunlit forest in!

Stay tuned for a little piece of music we started tracking in the forest and will be finishing remotely. I’m going to drop it as a multiple recipient collect using the audio upload on @buttrfly.lens 🦋

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Peace!