3 years ago I started my Web3 career as a Junior Developer with
@Avara
(on
@Aave
)
I recently transitioned internally from engineering to developer relations. It's been an exciting new journey and I'm just getting started.
I'm highly motivated by Avara's mission to build a
Best of luck in your future endeavours!
You’ve inspired me so much over the last 2 years, where we’ve crossed paths in 4 different continents
I’ll be be working hard to carry the torch of DevRel
@avara
and doing my best
@dabit3
impression with some groundbreaking code + video
Life update: I've handed over official
@avara
DevRel responsibilities to the incredible
@DeFiSpartan
Over the past year and a half, I've been lucky to work across a polished and diverse suite of web3 products like
@aave
@LensProtocol
and ConnectKit by
@family
, while my
1/4🧵Why the Lens Protocol is a game changer for social media?
Lens Protocol completely redefines the relationship between social network and users/creators
Today I published LIP-24, a proposal to create a unified specification of Frames for
@LensProtocol
.
Lens Frames is an implementation of Open Frames that establishes a unified standard for developers to create interactive applications that integrate Lens
200k+ profiles.
A
@LensProtocol
profile is more than just a social media account, it's a sovereign identity.
Blockchain technology enables users to own their access to a shared network. The only comparable alternative is hosting a website. The problem with websites is they are
In addition to the cross-chain bridge, we've also open sourced three repositories to further decentralize Aave and empower the community to build 🛠 🧰 👻
One of the biggest challenges in Web3 is balancing composability and risk
Two recent innovations have opened the door to create novel social experiences while tackling this dilemma
Lens Open Actions and Farcaster Frames
3 years ago I entered a hackathon that changed my life
Prior to
@ETHGlobal
MarketMake 2021, I quit my job and focused all my effort on becoming a full-time Web3 developer
One project () and a few interviews later, I landed a role
@Aave
Labs
Building On Lens Protocol - Where to Start?
@LensProtocol
is a decentralized social graph that enables users and developers of any skill level to own their identity, connections, and content onchain.
Every aspect of Lens can be customized to embed onchain interactions, creating
Blockchain isn’t just a technology, it’s a new paradigm of ownership
Publicly verifiable agreements will transform our entire financial and social lives
For me it would be:
Bun
Vite
React
Typescript
Speedrun shortcut: bunx create-vite --template=react-ts
Viem
Wagmi
ConnectKit
TanStack react-query
Zustand
@PatrickAlphaC
This course was great for learning Ethereum + solidity basics. I go back and reference it all the time
Then if you replace Remix with scaffold-eth () for building and testing, you’ll be cruising with Solidity in no time
Family is the best way onboard friends & family to Web3:
1.) Setup a wallet through a guided tutorial
2.) Ask them to send a message to your .eth
Now you’re connected onchain to send and share transactions 🤝
Messaging has arrived in Family! Engage in end-to-end encrypted chats with any wallet address, powered by
@xmtp_
. Send text, voice, images, and video messages. Save media, customize your chats, and easily send transactions directly within conversations. 💬
4/ Pool Explorer 🌊: Discover investment opportunities by sorting
@UniswapProtocol
and
@SushiSwap
pools by liquidity, 24h Volume, revenue from fees, impermanent loss, SUSHI rewards, and expected 30d ROI.
The future of social media is onchain
Blockchains enable users to own their access to a shared database
Lens is a social network where users can own their identity, content, and connections onchain
Today, Lens announces a major step towards scaling onchain social, on Ethereum
"Build something cool and users will come" is a mental trap for developers.
People are generally more compelled by narratives rather than technical details.
Finding the right balance between building, using, and
teaching is the model to scale.
3/4 Lens Protocol is a social graph where users OWN every aspect of their social experience
All content, follows, and interactions are represented as dynamic NFTs which are owned by you, and are endlessly customizable
Huge milestone for social media <> DeFi
@LensProtocol
enables any action to be encoded into an on-chain publication
This action from
@madfiprotocol
enables minting an Ethereum NFT directly from a social feed, where the provenance of the creator / collector / referrer are
Our Crosschain Zora Mint Open Action is live on polygon!
What does that mean? Any Lens client can integrate it, and
@madfiprotocol
v2 will support it on day 1 🚀
Check out our comprehensive guide to integrate and earn
@ourZORA
Mint Referral rewards
Collecting is social!
Composability is one of the killer features of onchain actions. We are now starting to see how social platforms can leverage this composability to create better platforms for distribution and stronger connections between creators, collectors, curators, and
Creators posting on
@ourZORA
and then distributing to protocols.
This is great for distribution across protocol. Now creators will be able to post art in one platform (Zora) and leverage on different protocols, reaching multiple audience in different formats, and creating it's
4/4 The data and functionality of the Lens social graph can be integrated into any smart contract, which means any application can display, interact with, create, moderate, and build on top of the Lens protocol while users maintain ownership of their social roots 🌿
2/4 Today, your content, data, and monetization are controlled by corporations which have unilateral control over your revenue, and the ability to censor or ban you from their platforms
Today this opportunity can be yours: to level up your development skills, build a Web3 portfolio, and compete for 75k GHO in total prizes
Sign-ups close today (Jan 10) at midnight EST 👇
3/ Education Center 🍎: A comprehensive guide with sections on Bitcoin, Ethereum, DeFi, Decentralized Exchanges, the factors affecting LP returns, and much more.
Shoutout to
@DeFiPedia
for the help here!
6/ Portfolio 💼: Connect to MetaMask and track the current value and return on investment (in USD and ETH) of your Uniswap LP tokens courtesy of
@federiconitidi
().
SushiSwap LP tokens and integrated SUSHI redemption/staking coming soon 👀
5/ LP Token Value 💵: Get the USD value and current pair holdings for Uniswap or SushiSwap LP tokens. A useful tool if your LP tokens are staked elsewhere.
@dabit3
Good discussion! Unfortunately
@dabit3
had to take flight ✈️ and Twitter didn’t want
@NHeinDev
and me to continue
Was great to see the demand for content onboarding users and creators to Web3! We’ll have to do it again sometime
Two useful URL tricks for Web3 users
1.) Every ENS name has a built-in homepage, just add .xyz
2.) View the source code of any smart contract in VSCode by replacing the block explorer ending (.io, .com) with .deth.net
Examples 👇
@AaveAave
Just tried it out, first impression is great! New layout is extremely clean and snappy, feels ready for a mobile app 👀👀. The gas optimizations are a blessing too 🙏
Really interesting visualizations!
Would highly recommend people watch this talk from the legendary
@peter_szilagyi
to learn about the physics / hardware limitations of scaling Ethereum:
new research from
@paradigm
: How to Raise the Gas Limit ⛽⛽
lots of people want to raise the gas limit, but so far most of the discourse has lacked detailed quantitative evidence
that ends today. we are making the scientific case for scaling Ethereum using ultra-high-res data
2/ Whether you’re an experienced LP, or a complete beginner, Liquid Yield is designed to be an informative and accessible (even on mobile) resource where you can learn to accumulate wealth by putting your assets to work!
Here’s a rundown of the features:
The future of the digital economy is onchain!
NFTs from collections like Zora, Pods, and SuperRare can now be purchased from other chains directly within a Lens feed.
My favorite feature of this action is the integrated fee model that is designed to align incentives for
Humanity is at a cross-roads with regards to AI.
Will AI democratize access to information or become privatized for corporate/government interests?
It’s time to start treating the open vs closed model debate with the nuance it deserves.
A recent MIT study claimed open models can help create bioweapons. But it didn’t test if they’re more useful than just having internet access (and later studies found they aren’t).
How can we assess the impact of open foundation models? New paper:
Frames provide a rigid way to embed a frontend experience, while delegating the execution to a callback function which can execute anything
Open actions are essentially the complement to this design: explicitly defined action and open-ended frontend experience
The beauty of these primitives and Web3 in general is that they can work interoperably
I envision a world where where publications on Lens and Farcaster can co-exist by referencing and interacting with each other
One thing is for certain: the future of agreements is on-chain
@StaniKulechov
@LordTylerWard
@AaveAave
I’m currently building a market-centric AAVE dashboard to help investors take advantage of these opportunities, and easily move deposit/borrow positions between markets. AAVEtrage coming soon 👀
The key benefits of embedding an interaction as a smart contract module are provenance and immutability
Both the creator and executor can explicitly agree to the terms of execution, and these terms can be verified by anyone
Verifying that a project uses IPFS for content storage is also not good enough
An IPFS hash is useless unless someone is hosting the content
Content on IPFS is only permanent if you run a node to host the content yourself or continually fund a pinning service
@js_horne
@0xChristina
@LensProtocol
The Lens fee model is built on top of Zora protocol rewards
A profile that shares a Zora link will receive the Lens AND Zora referral rewards for each mint
Frames are a way to embed interactive apps into a social feed
They enable developers to embed an image and buttons into a social feed, and trigger a callback on button press to update the frame
Some use cases of Frames are polls, games, or relay-sponsored transactions