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Decentralized Social Media Firm Lens Eyes Massive Scale-Up
12.11.2024
The latest version introduces application building blocks that allow users to create decentralized newspapers with thousands of contributors
Phaver’s Japan Lead Ace Shares Insights on Navigating the Japanese Web3 Market
8.7.2024
This week, I had the opportunity to speak with Ace, the Japan lead for Phaver, a rapidly growing Web3 social platform. During our conversation, Ace shared insights into his journey into crypto, Phaver’s strategic focus on the Japanese market, the unique characteristics of Japanese crypto...
Shape Lens Blur Effect with SDFs and WebGL
12.6.2024
An introduction on harnessing the power of Signed Distance Fields (SDFs) to draw shapes in WebGL and create interactive effects, such as lens blur
Bakkt Holdings under NYSE’s lens for share price listing breach
14.3.2024
Bakkt Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: BKKT), a company known for developing solutions that help businesses expand alongside the crypto economy, was warned today by the New York Stock Exchange (the “NYSE”) that it has failed to comply with Section 802.01C of the NYSE Listed Company Manual. As...
Lens becomes permissionless
28.2.2024
Since the protocol’s inception, its purpose has been to enable human connection through novel ownership mechanisms in regard to created content, social graph, and data. In the early stages, the decision was made to operate in beta while addressing concerns related to upgradeability...
Stani Kulechov Defied Crypto Winter
4.12.2023
With upgrades to the Aave lending/borrowing protocol and Lens, an open-source social media protocol, the Estonian native kept BUIDLing in a down-market
The Year of Decentralized Social Media
4.12.2023
Farcaster, Friend.tech and Lens showed how much can change in a year — but is Web3 networking ready for primetime?
Aave Rebrands to Avara, Announces Latest Acquisition in Web3
17.11.2023
Source: Avara Aave has announced its rebranding to Avara and the acquisition of Los Feliz Engineering, a Los Angeles-based web3 startup. Avara is the home to some of the most innovative web3 brands: @aave, @lensprotocol, @ghoaave, @sonar, and now @family all building towards a people powered...
Lens, Aave's Decentralized Social Media Platform, Launches Major Upgrade on Polygon
13.11.2023
The open source protocol spearheaded by DeFi giant Stani Kulechov has released a bevy of new monetization features
Now Is The Time For Universal Video Game Accessibility Guidelines
2.11.2023
As Kotaku’s resident Soulsbud, I was stoked to check out the action-Soulslike RPG Lords of the Fallen when it debuted back in mid-October, so I booted it up and immediately navigated to the settings menu. This is always my first stop when starting any game, to ensure I can actually play the thing....
Progressively Enhanced WebGL Lens Refraction
10.10.2023
Learn how to create a responsive WebGL layout powered by CSS and React Three Fiber
Unstoppable Domains launches instant messaging with XMTP
23.8.2023
Unstoppable Domains now allows owners of .crypto, .polygon and other Web3 usernames to send messages to each other through multiple messaging apps
Shared Web3 user base could power new social app integrations — Aave CEO
20.7.2023
Web3 social layer Lens Protocol aims to power seamless connectivity of applications across blockchain and non-blockchain platforms
Unraveling the facts behind Lens Protocol V2
18.7.2023
Lens Protocol unravels the many facts surrounding Lens Protocol V2, which is basically an open and decentralized social layer meant for the web. Their intention behind the creation of the Lens was to influence the social media community, along with the builders, users, and brands. They reached...
Aave's Decentralized Social Media Platform Lens Protocol Releases New Governance Model
15.6.2023
Lens Improvement Proposals (LIPs), which is inspired by Ethereum and Aave, is an attempt to create a framework for developers, creators and users to participate and have a voice in the decision-making process of Len’s future development
Lens Protocol Raises $15 Million to Augment Decentralized Social Media – Next Twitter Competitor?
9.6.2023
Aave’s Lens Protocol, a social layer for web3, has raised $15 million in funding to develop decentralized blockchain-backed social media.
According to a June 8 blog post, IDEO CoLab Ventures led the funding round alongside other VCs, such as General Catalyst, Variant, Blockchain Capital, and Palm...
Lens Protocol raises a funding amount of $15 million
9.6.2023
Lens Protocol has successfully managed to raise for itself the amount of $15 million, in terms of funding, with the able support of Aave Companies, which is a technology-based entity that is actively involved in the development of protocols, as well as applications that integrate decentralization...
Aave-Developed Lens Protocol Raises $15M to Expand 'Social Layer' of Web3
8.6.2023
Uniswap CEO Hayden Adams, OpenSea co-founder Alex Atallah, entrepreneur Balaji Srinivasan and Polygon co-founder Sandeep Nailwal joined the round as angel investors
Stripe tackles 'cold start problem' with the launch of fiat-to-crypto onramp
7.5.2023
Web3 companies can utilize the Stripe-hosted fiat-to-crypto onramp to allow their customers to buy crypto at the “precise moment they need it.”
Web3 social media protocol launches ‘layer 3’ to provide instant posts
26.4.2023
The new layer relies on Bundlr, a decentralized storage platform built on Arweave, for mass storage of social media data