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🎙 New Podcast Episode
Mint Season 6 episode 18 welcomes the founder of Aave and Lens Protocol, Stani Kulechov. Throughout the hour we discuss his vision for web3 social, how creators use crypto to communities, how creators make money on Lens, user-generated content as an asset class, migrating collectors from other chains onto Lens, how to use the lens social graph outside of their protocol, and so much more.
I hope you guys enjoy our conversation.
Time Stamps
00:00 - Intro
00:12 - The Current Web3 Social Landscape
03:15 - Web2 Social Problems That Web3 Aims to Fix
08:31 - What is Lens Protocol?
11:23 - Building the Web3 Social Network Experience
17:23 - Thoughts on the Music NFT Wave
20:55 - How Do Creators Make Money on Lens?
22:37 - Tools Missing on Lens Protocol
26:32 - The Asset Class of User-Generated Content
30:42 - Creators That Own Their Audience
34:22 - Converting a Different Collector Base to Lens
37:53 - Leveraging Your Social Graph Across Other Networks
40:48 - Risks That Come With Owning Your Social Graph
43:55 - How Do You Build Collaboration Versus Competitiveness?
47:27 - Community-Specific Applications Built On Lens
50:09 - Scaling to Facebook’s Level
54:18 - Sub-Communities That May Create a Cultivator DAO Experience
56:09 - The Overlap Between DeFi and Web2 Social
58:14 - How Does Lens Make Money?
01:00:12 - Outro
Additional Resources
🌿 Claim Lens Profile
Lens Protocol is a composable and decentralized social graph, ready for you to build on so you can focus on creating a great experience, not scaling your users. The Lens Protocol is a Web3, smart contracts-based social graph on the Polygon Proof-of-Stake blockchain designed to empower creators to own the links between themselves and their community, forming a fully composable, user-owned social graph. The protocol is built from the ground up with modularity in mind, allowing new features to be added while ensuring immutable user-owned content and social relationships.
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