Lens has partnered with @avail_project to support high-volume consumer applications on Ethereum.
Ethereum stores transaction data onchain, while @zksync validiums keep it off-chain -- yet fully verifiable. Avail DA ensures instant data verifiability and accessibility and is purpose built to handle a ZK stack like Lens.
Avail DA provides the necessary infrastructure to support scaling the Lens Network to millions of users.
Lens is building with partners who share our vision of open, resilient networks. With Avail DA, Lens will offer a robust, scalable, and cost-effective foundation for building the next-generation social experiences.
You can now login and share to Lens with onchain photo app, @moshicam!
It's easy to get started:
🌱 Sign in with Lens on Moshicam mobile
🖼️ Upload a photo, choose a border, and create
🫂 Share on Lens for everyone to mint your memory.
💹 Earn when others collect your photos
We're creator-first and so is @moshicam! So we invited @tinyrainboot @kayakiko and @jessyjeanne to create borders for the launch. Our design team liked the idea and contributed with their border designs as well.
Networks are nothing without their creators and fans.
Check out this new frame by @defispartan to see the top-earning creators over the past 90 days on Lens.
An invitation to grow your digital garden with @thehugxyz and Lens.
We partnered with HUG to create a free course on the future of social for creatives!
We're big fans of what @thehugxyz is building: An inclusive, curious and ever-expanding community of creatives, providing education and a platform for their expansion.
Whether you are familiar with Lens or just getting started, come join us!
Ethereum, much like the humans that use it, is pluralistic. Much has been tweeted about L2s, but we're in need of your good, reflective, long-form thoughts.
Thankfully we have a writing contest from @t2world and @kiwinews:
1️⃣ Submit a post related to Vitalik’s essay about L2s.
2️⃣ Share your post in theKiwi t2 territory: app.t2.world/t/kiwi
3️⃣ Submit your t2 post to Kiwi news.kiwistand.com/
Winners will be determined by the number of upvotes received on Kiwi.
Check out all the prompts and rules here: <app.t2.world/article/cm0dybwsm14867811ymc3nenain2>
How do we future-proof social media networks? How do we minimize any single point of failure?
Or as @stani put it, how should we be building resilient social networks? <app.t2.world/article/cm09gqvx348089121mcxttm30hl>
Every click, like, and search on web2 social becomes part of our social profile where our behaviors and preferences are stored as data that is sold to advertisers. As we've learned, our data is used to manipulate us into buying things and even influence our ideas and politics.
Web2 platforms are opaque, centralized, and controlled by large companies, who make all the decisions, including censoring users. Users have no rights. This centralized control makes them non-resilient.
Blockchains offer the best way to achieve resiliency, offering accountability, transparency, and protection from centralized control.
In contrast to other models, Lens is built onchain, which means it is highly resilient. For example, if an app on Lens becomes unaccessible, you'd still own your profile. When you chose your username on Lens, it is minted onchain, and is yours, forever.
What about all your publication data? Lens publications can point to any content hosting provider. Publications are verified onchain, providing a resilient mechanism for the Lens community to re-construct the canonical social graph if a service is down or compromised.
Using a flexible blockchain-based network also means apps and users have more control in moderation decisions. In the next iteration of Lens, apps can choose the parameters regarding who can join a community, moderate content, or decide how funds are distributed in the app.
Finally, Lens is fully open source. If Lens developers are targeted, the source code can still be accessed, as needed. With open source software and onchain contracts -- transparency -- is inherently resilient.
Why are user-owned platforms so important for creators and builders?
When you choose to trust a platform to share your work and ideas, you are giving it immense value. But what do you get in return?
With Lens, you get the features to control how you monetize, split your revenue, and how you grow and manage your social graph. Why does this matter?
NFTs are narrative-driven, ever-changing, and above all, subject to market conditions. For instance, NFTs now are being described as a distribution strategy — which is different from how we spoke about them before and without the record-breaking sales of previous cycles. Creators in the NFT space have felt the brunt of these narrative changes – from royalty removals to the open-edition mint eclipsing 1-of-1 NFTs.
With Lens, all features are built with the vision of a user-owned internet in mind. Builders get the flexibility of picking and choosing features, no matter the current obsession or narrative.
Collectibles, publications, profiles, handles, collects – all are customizable.
So you might be asking, why trust Lens over what everyone else does? The simple answer is: you shouldn't. You should verify. Read our docs. Ask your technical friends. See for yourself :)
"A TEN" @callmelatasha's video is minting now - we're honored to support her efforts and watch her creative journey on Lens.
I like to think (and
the sooner the better!)
of a cybernetic meadow
where mammals and computers
live together in mutually
programming harmony
Chatting with your data will soon be possible on Lens thanks to @ruthless!