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.

bd! A big shout-out to all the incredible innovators who participated in the @ethglobal.lens Lisbon 🇵🇹Hackathon. We're still buzzing from the energy, amazing ideas (and pasteis).

Here are the winners of the Lens Hackathon 🥁

🥇 InfluLENSer - ethglobal.com/showcase/influlenser-dcvrj

• An all-in-one platform for hiring Lens influencers to promote your brand. Based on the interconnection between two protocols: Lens and @talentlayer.lens.

🥈Lucky Fren - ethglobal.com/showcase/lucky-fren-hku8p

• A raffle module for the Follow and Collect actions of the Lens Protocol.

🥉 Lenschool - ethglobal.com/showcase/lenschool-ahbut

• Lenschool is a social learning platform built on top of Lens Protocol. Creators can monetize their knowledge by selling video courses. Students can enroll in courses, and connect and collaborate with fellow learners.

ICYMI dive into the new Lens SDK blog to learn how you can integrate Lens with just 10 lines of code. mirror.xyz/lensprotocol.eth/LtJBLD6zX_P9EYdsJ2DrT9RaCbiE2vvtajF4Md6wHr0

We also had prizes for the 5️⃣ Best Lens Integrations 👇

5️⃣ LensPub - ethglobal.com/showcase/lenspub-84crk

• Decentralised Academic Platform for permissionless science with verifiable reputation for public good.

5️⃣ Teasr - ethglobal.com/showcase/teasr-4ygp5

• Teasr is a web3 crowdfunding platform that lets video creators bootstrap financing and fans for their productions.

5️⃣ Highlight - ethglobal.com/showcase/highlight-pfwfz

• Shining light through the web3 mist! A minimalistic web3 user profile focusing on aggregated insights rather than assets.

5️⃣ Lenstarter - ethglobal.com/showcase/lenstarter-cst1r

• A crowdfunded credit line for creators where their reputation is used as collateral on-chain.

5️⃣ TBA 🤝 Lens - ethglobal.com/showcase/tba-lens-m8ki4

• Using ERC-6551 to create token-bound accounts that make your Lens identity and history transferable.

Advancements in zero-knowledge proofs are poised to transform #Web3. From privacy-preserving oracle solutions to zkEVM layer 2s, zero-knowledge proofs can make blockchains, faster, more secure, and more accessible. Keep reading for a primer on how they work.

Imagine a cave with a single entrance but two pathways (paths A and B) that connect at a common door locked by a passphrase. Alice wants to prove to Bob she knows the passcode to the door but without revealing the code to Bob. To do this, Bob stands outside of the cave and Alice walks inside the cave, taking one of the two paths (without Bob knowing which path was taken). Bob then asks Alice to take one of the two paths back to the entrance of the cave (chosen at random). If Alice originally chose to take path A to the door, but then Bob asks her to take path B back, the only way to complete the puzzle is for Alice to have knowledge of the passcode for the locked door. This process can be repeated multiple times to prove Alice has knowledge of the door’s passcode and did not happen to choose the right path to take initially with a high degree of probability. After this process is complete, Bob has a high degree of confidence that Alice knows the door’s passcode without her having revealed it to him.

This general analogy can be extrapolated to a wide range of Web3 use cases. This process is used in zkEVMs to prove transaction validity, emerging oracle protocols like DECO to privately verify Web2 identity credentials, and on-chain games to create private "fog of war."

Projects at the forefront of zero-knowledge technology will be at SmartCon 2023. Join them by registering now: chn.lk/3zbOEAc

ETHGlobal Lisbon Hackathon

We want you to build on Lens!
Check out this video with Dev Rel Director @nader.lens bringing the builder energy to @ETHGlobal Lisbon.

We have $10,000 up for grabs:
🥇$3.5k
🥈$2.5k
🥉null.5k
5️⃣ Plus the 5 best Lens integrations will receive $500 each!

Here are some resources to get the devs started.
Docs - docs.lens.xyz/docs
Apps - lens.xyz/apps
Lensverse - aave.notion.site/Lensverse-a5926eab1d8148eda10053af9f4e28a0…

Reach out to @nader.lens and @jessglover.lens for any builder enquires.
We can't wait to see what you build 💚