Want to understand the philosophy behind why Unlock Protocol exists, learn why memberships are so important to the future of the web, or dig into the developer or governance underpinnings of Unlock? You can do that right here:
The web is an operating system. Websites are its "applications".
Like most OS, the web has "primitives" which are being (re)used by many applications. On the web, these primitives are generally called "protocols".
We'd shipped something with
@forbes
today.
You can now unlock an ads-free experience on their site with a little bit of Eth.
@Forbes
write about the future of money, it's good to see them walk the walk too!
#unlock
#ethereum
#adsfree
#membership
We're so excited to let you in on a big secret— we totally rebuilt the WordPress Plugin & its beyond fabulous. We're so excited to have this bridge to bring more web2 creators into web3!! But first...here's the deets. 🧵 /1
🎁 This year the Unlock Labs team created an Advent Calendar and let everyone claim prizes and gifts!
📆 Get today's gift now and please make sure to come back every day!
1/ Traditionally, using NFTs for memberships was a yes-or-no proposition: If someone held the NFT for a project, they had access to the project’s perks or community for as long as they held the NFT — potentially forever.
1/ The
@UnlockProtocol
team is going to be all over NYC from June 20-26! We're doing events and a happy hour, and members of the team will be speaking throughout the week. Want to RSVP for our happy hour and connect up? Here's where we'll be, when. 🧵
Today, we're excited to announce that we've launched
@UnlockProtocol
NFT memberships on
@arbitrum
— a rollup protocol that inherits Ethereum-level security and does all the ETH things (Dapps, smart contracts, etc.) w/ txns that are cheaper & faster. 🚀
"Other conferences in the crypto space have been plagued with blocks-long queues and hours-long wait times to get into their venues.
@EthCC
was committed to living up to its reputation and having the smoothest check-in experience for all its stakeholders."
🔔 Reminder for Creators building with Unlock Protocol + Grantees of Unlock token grants
🤲 We’re holding our monthly Office Hours Weds 7/6 to support you & your projects!
⏰ 10am PT / 1pm ET / 5pm GMT
Meet in Member Chat voice channel in Discord:
"Why NFTs are better than traditional subscriptions..."
1️⃣Creators and their communities own the NFT
✌️Creators can personalize the NFT membership
👉🏼Creators and their communities share in the upside
- Peter Yang (
@petergyang
) of
@odyssey_dao
via
If you're doing a ticketed side event at
@EthereumDenver
, please use an on-chain solution. It doesn't have to be
@UnlockProtocol
(although we'd love that, of course), but the love of all that's good, please walk the walk and do tickets on-chain.
#ETHDenver
💳 We're very proud to announce that creators can now accept credit card payments on all of their locks!
Creators don't have to chose between selling
#NFT
to a very small subset of users or having payments rails that everyone knows!
We're thrilled to announce our next weekend hackathon in partnership with
@protocollabs
🎉
Web3 Weekend, happening May 28 - 30th!
If you loved NFTHack, (or if you missed it!) don't snooze on this one 🏃♂️
Apply today, spots are limited!
BAFTA-award winning game designer Henry Hoffman (
@HenryHoffman
) has done the incredible, and has shipped an
@unlockprotocol
integration for Unity (
@unitygames
) game designers and devs! 😍 1/
1/ Hey all!
@UnlockProtocol
is sponsoring grants as part of
@gitcoin
's $1 MILLION GR14 grants program! Want to learn more and learn how you can tap into the grants program? Here’s what’s going on. 🧵
We're building in the open, but more importantly, we're building with you!
If you are thinking about adding the protocol to any of your products or applications, please read about grants, bounties and matching program!
$UDT #Ʉ
#unlock
#ethereum
#bounty
Some news today from
@UnlockProtocol
— Unlock now supports a whole range of new business models for developers, creators, and platforms through platform, and affiliate, and referral fees. 1/
Ok, on to the important stuff. We need to know how the Unlock community feels about one of the important questions of the year. Which of these holiday movies is the true sign of the season?
On Wednesday May 12th at 1pm ET, we're hosting our first contributor meetup for anyone who has questions about how to integrate
#Unlock
on their sites and applications!
Join us (info will be posted in Telegram: )
We're celebrating the launch of Recurring Memberships and Subscriptions via NFT this week in Twitter Spaces.
We'd love for you to join the discussion and tell us all the cool ways you can envision using this in your projects...
Wed 25 May - Let's Go!
Web3 gives us the chance to foster deeper membership in our communities and to participate in regenerative activities. That's why we're happy to announce that Unlock Protocol memberships can now be deployed on the carbon-negative
@CeloOrg
blockchain! 1/
Our DAO officially became a funded & functioning DAO yesterday. The Unlock mission from Day 1 has been to build a SHARED INFRASTRUCTURE. The Protocol belongs to you- the user, creator & builder. Here's the highlights of our mission. 🧵
#unlockdao
/1
1/ What a week in New York City — it seems the entire web3 industry was there in one form or another between June 20th and June 26th. There was so 👏 much 👏 going 👏 on 👏.
Here are some of the highlights from the events the Unlock Labs squad participated in. 🧵
Today, we’re introducing a new feature: the ability to download
@unlockprotocol
membership NFTs to a Google or Apple wallet with
@ethpass
! Tickets, memberships, certifications, right on your phone. Magical. ✨
BIG update this morning —
@UnlockProtocol
has dropped an entirely redesigned dashboard for creating and managing memberships.
We'll talk about it on our Twitter Space in an hour:
And you can see all the details here:
Unlock cordially invites you to check out our latest experiment, Events by Unlock Labs. It's a free and easy way to create tickets and share an event details page for 10-10000+ person events. Setting up an event takes less than a minute.
👉
(
@cookbook_dev
) is a hub for smart contracts where you can find, deploy, and collaborate on EVM contracts. You can view audits, docs, and usage, as well as deploy and manage the contracts. And the Cookbook community membership is powered by Unlock — yum!🍪
🔔 Set a reminder for our next Space and join the discussion…
📣 Topic: NFTs + recurring Memberships & Subscriptions — unlocking a new business model
📌 Wed, 25 May @ 10am PDT | 1pm EDT | 5pm GMT
We’re eager to hear what you think!
<taps mic>
ARE YOU READY!??
@ETHGlobal
's ETHOnline starts next week (Sept 2). $250k+ in prizes for devs & creators:
👉 Register here by Sept 1:
😍 See
@UnlockProtocol
's Hackathon resources here:
Can't wait to see what you create!
We're obviously having a very busy week, but do you remember that last week we announced our first grantees?
Want to build something with Unlock? Apply for the next round, a few weeks from now.
Unlock Labs has integrated
@coinbase
Wallet as a Service, simplifying the login experience to Unlock Labs apps. Additionally, you can also use a Google account login. Onchain summer is now for everyone, and we've made sure it's as easy as possible for you to join us!
It may not sound much, but today we just merged a massive upgrade to our smart contract dev environment! We're now using
@HardhatHQ
and we could not be happier about it!
Thanks
@clemsos
@Amxx
and a few others who helped us along the way!
A few days ago
@benwerd
suggested a "backwards" use of the proctocol, by allowing users to lock some of they're personal data (location, interests, social graph...) And then letting applications pay to access them.
We surpassed the 15k quorum threshold & the DAO is officially live! We’ve partnered w/ 7 orgs to reach quorum & create a healthy DAO. We’re believe deeply in the missions of these delegates & are so honored to have them!
#unlockdao
🧵 /1
📢 New $3000 DAI bounty for a LP Farm app
-
@redwoodjs
app
-
@graphprotocol
subgraph
-
@UnlockProtocol
token, but can be forked and improved later!
🙏 pls retweet to help find the right person for the job
Heading to
@EthereumDenver
?
@UnlockProtocol
x
@CoinviseCo
are throwing a little shindig. Hit us up in the comments if you're going to be in Denver and we'll get you the ticketing details!
We're so excited to announce our new Head of Growth at Unlock! Please give a warm welcome to
@austinrobey_
a brilliant mind in the
#web3
space, champion of creators, indie music industry expert & past Unlock Grantee (& so much more)!
We have been made aware that some tokens where stolen and dumped on Uniswap. We are investigating and we will report on findings as soon as possible.
We will also do anything we can to restore balances of $UDT to pre-hack amounts.
Unlock Labs has been working to put in place the necessary components that will enable the
@UnlockProtocol
DAO to migrate from Ethereum mainnet to
@base
. Here are the details.
🔔 Frenly reminder:
Our next monthly contributor meetup is Wed June 15 @ 10am PDT / 1pm EDT / 5pm GMT, and with
@1E1F
and
@marcusestes
from
@chromasignet
!
Join the Unlock community to see what people are building in
#web3
w/
#NFTs
RSVP here:
We're quickly approaching 10k follower on the Twitters!!! We have something special planned for crossing that threshold for some lucky followers! Stay tuned!! wagmi
Today, we're excited to unveil support for
#ApplePay
and
#GooglePay
in our checkout UI!
It makes buying NFT membership from a mobile device as easy as clicking a few buttons without typing long & messy card numbers!
We love seeing artists & creators taking back autonomy from record labels by leveraging
#NFTs
. We have several musicians using Unlock to put token gates on music so fans can support them directly. Bands like
@KingsOfLeon
showing what's possible is amazing!
It's true!
@UnlockProtocol
had 200,000+ membership NFTs claimed during Dec from our Advent calendar activation.
The key bits:
🚀 Over 200k NFTs claimed
🔶 Over 12k wallets
💜 Deployed on Polygon
🎲 Gamified experience
🚫 Gas-free mint ⛽️
Full story 👉
Unlock Protocol is now live on Base Mainnet 🛡️🔵!
Developers can now create membership and subscription smart contracts on the L2 network from
@BuildOnBase
@coinbase
#OnChainSummer
We have some big news rolling out next week to help bridge the web2 & web3 worlds for creators. Stay tuned-- we're getting a little giddy over here about this one!! ;)
We've got a treat for our community! A Retro-Active AIRDROP! That's right, we want our community to join the DAO & to celebrate our early adopters, so we've sent a treat to protocol contributors active before 9/1/21! Details to claim are here:
#unlockdao
Something 🔥 for you this morning.
@gitcoin
is starting its new GR15 contribution round in a couple of weeks. After digging through countless resources, we've pulled together everything you need to know in order to get your project considered for a grant.
Currently, one of the most notable opportunities in web3 is to improve and simplify the user experience.
With that goal in mind, Unlock has completely redesigned the Unlock checkout experience based on extensive user testing and feedback. 1/
#ux
Some very powerful news on the
@UnlockProtocol
front today: Folks can now use *any* NFT as a membership NFT for token gating using Unlock. Here's how it works. 1/
We just sent our first batch of grant approval emails :)
Come build something amazing for the world which uses Unlock! Apply for a grant today
#UDT
$UDT
Did you know you can accept Credit cards using Unlock? This is a great way to expand your membership to non-crypto holders & maybe convert them to decentralization in the process. Learn more about it here:
#web3
#creatoreconomy
16/ Gard3n is a public goods social engagement platform built w/
@LensProtocol
,
@UnlockProtocol
, and other technologies that rewards creators and fans to help cultivate a new form of community with shared prosperity at its roots.
Demo:
WOAH!!! We just hit 10k followers on the Twitters!!! We're continually amazed by our community & all of you lovely locksmiths who have joined us on this
#web3
adventure! We've got a special treat for the last 10 followers who put us over the 10K mark-- check your DMs shortly!
@Interaxis8
@ljin18
YES!!! We have a grantee building a
@NotionHQ
integration right now so you can gate Notion content with an NFT. Please hop into our Discord if you want to talk more about it or sit tight, we'll announce it here as soon as it's live!
Let's take it one step further: proceeds go to a the
#DeFi
#DAO
whose ownership is initially shared by the first few projects who adopt it, but new shares are minted on every transaction.
The DAO buys back the shares and burns them with the proceeds.
Exciting news! Swap and Purchase from
@UnlockProtocol
just made monetization easier for creators and made it 10x easier for users to purchase memberships, tickets, and more using Unlock via a new, seamless checkout integration with
@Uniswap
. Here's how it works: 🧵
Many web3 applications can be connected to different
#ethereum
networks (based on the network the wallet is connected to), but are there applications which are able to show you assets from multiple chains *at the same time*?
Frens, are you going to
@EthCC
next week in Paris?
You should have received your QR by email... but here is a cool trick: you can add the ticket to your iOS/Android wallet with these steps:
There are now 19(!) grants for your consideration in the
@gitcoin
GR15 grants round. Remember: Gitcoin matching funds are based on Quadratic Funding, meaning that $5 or $10 of support from you can be matched at many times that value. Check 'em out here!
We're happy to announce a new project spanning Unlock Labs,
@ConnextNetwork
, and
@GnosisGuild
delivering a novel cross-chain DAO governance architecture that enables not only token bridging but also *DAO proposal movement* between networks.
Unlock Protocol Spotlight: Myosin x Unlock Dinner Party
Project type: Event Ticketing
Network:
@gnosischain
The Myosin x Unlock Dinner Party (
@myosin_xyz
x
@UnlockProtocol
) at
@EFDevconnect
in Istanbul strengthened relationships with web3 builders and creators in an evening of
Given recent events w/
#onlyfans
we felt compelled to be an active participant in a SOLUTION for creators directly impacted by censorship. We've created an RFP for blockchain devs to create a decentralized option. APPLY-- & be part of the solution too!
✅ Start DAO
✅ Set up Notion
✅ Token Gate Notion
Ʉnlock community member
@mankins
built this incredibly cool integration that token-gates
@NotionHQ
with membership NFTs. Check it.
Certifications are memberships earned by individuals who have participated in training or passed an exam. And now, Unlock has launched an even easier way to issue certifications on-chain. Each credential has its own verifiable NFT, proving completion of a course. 🎓 1/