Dear Lens fam, what is the Future of Social for you?

At t2, we believe the future social networks should revolve around our values, not just what grabs our attention. We want to foster meaningful connections with others, share what helps us achieve our goals, and enjoy articles that empower us.

We have witnessed how the Lens community celebrates genuine creativity and friendship. We believe our values and mission align closely with those of the Lens community. So, we are excited to bring a new type of writing and reading platform to @lensprotocol, starting with our manifesto. manifesto.t2.world

⏳ If you are on board with this vision, sign the Manifesto with your value propositions and complete all steps. You will receive a personalised card to showcase your values and early access to the t2 alpha product.

If you are a writer, follow us and comment below with your favourite piece of writing by you. We will follow back!

RELEASE

1.23.0-1.25.0 - 22nd December 2022

Database migration to aurora is now fully complete.

We hope everyone has a merry christmas and happy new year, this one is free to collect as an early christmas present from the team, enjoy all!

On top of this here is everything else which is within this release.

Features

• feat: DA mirrors, comments, posts (not exposed)

• feat: worldcoin SMS identity verification

• feat: DA signed typed data (not exposed)

• feat: extend code to handle reads and writes from different db connections

• feat: increase max pool to 50 and holding connections open for 60 seconds

• feat: allow ability to spread out the database reads into many read hosts to improve performance

• feat: config the read and write host connections

• feat: make running the backend easier and faster locally

• feat: improve some publication query performance by 2x

• feat: make feed only query reactions when it needs to

• feat: native arweave uploads

• feat: http and ethereum improvements. Http one means sharing connections!

Bug fixes

• fix: scalar on gated collect condition

• fix: streamline ScalarOperator enum

• fix: gated: check if erc20 token condition references a smart contract that does not exist

• fix: resolve unfollowing issue sometimes happening

• fix: resolve unknown follow modules working

• fix: whoMirroredPublicationId results are not in order

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Integrations

🏆 10 best Lens integrations - null,000 each

🤿 Dive into the Lens Social Graph with the new BigQuery public dataset, and think about creating a machine learning or data analytics tool for devs and creators to better understand their audience docs.lens.xyz/docs/public-big-query

🤍 Build new social experiences with mental health in mind, increase self-awareness of social media consumption, or improve the experience of collecting content.

🎶 Think how Token-gated drops on social media could help to empower both fans and artists, you could create a music experience helping collectors find new music.

🌆 Think about events and how people could network at conferences through Lens, consider the value of a person's attendance history, and imagine a world where tickets can be collected posts.

🎨 Explore ways to make content creation seamless for the Lens community. Build tools that empower content creators, and offer them unique features to take their content to the next level

🤝 Noodle on the idea of more brands entering web3, and think about ways to create a loyalty program for them on Lens and enable purchasing with a crypto wallet.

🫡 With more and more DAOs being created, explore how they could integrate token-gated voting or delegate profile actions to other wallets

Explore our new Lens Widgets, and integrate follow, share, and sign-in with Lens into your project or existing web3 front-end. github.com/lens-protocol/lens-widgets

Dev Docs docs.lens.xyz/docs

Hackathon Guide lens.xyz/hackathons

Keep this Lens integrations doc handy as it has some useful tutorials featured to help docs.lens.xyz/docs/integrating-lens

👩‍💻 Lens SDK details here 👉 github.com/lens-protocol/lens-sdk

📱 React Native Lens UI Kit (for mobile devs) github.com/lens-protocol/react-native-lens-ui-kit

🤝 Join our Lens Discord community to meet others building on Lens discord.gg/lensprotocol

Good luck, the team will be at our booth in MetaLand. Come show us what you are building to get some rare swag!