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- It’s good to be backed by creatives. Here's how it all happened:
**Mar 4:** Our journey has begun by launching the $BONSAI 🚀 and focusing on @lens/lens
**Mar 11:** $BONSAI was quickly and organically adopted as the default collect currency across all major Lens applications
**Mar 14:** We were astonished by how creators embraced $BONSAI in a remarkably short time, earning more than $ 1.2M through 5.6k collectables in just a week 💚
**Apr 5:** $ 1M seed round closed with some heavy hitters ✨ 🥊 and the round was led by PalmTreeCrypto , @lens/socialgraphvc , @lens/avara with participation from angel investors such as @lens/orb , @lens/fwb , @lens/refraction , @lens/boysclub , @lens/spencernoon , @lens/sandeep , @lens/maggielove , @lens/nader , @lens/decentralisedco and more.
**Apr 10: R**eached an all-time high at $ 0.13 - and north of $ 120M FDV 🚀
**Apr 16:** Season 1 Bonsai NFT metadata & art reveal - <https://hey.xyz/posts/0x02142f-0x2e>
**Apr 18:** 2.25M $BONSAI distribution begins for liquidity rewards 🦾
**Apr 26:** Lil Bonsai maker launched on @lens/titlesxyz with the great contribution of @lens/adriamasnou 🌳
**May 1:** Tipping grant launched with @lens/p00ls , embracing more creators in the web3 ecosystem 🧑🎤
**May 2:** 10M $BONSAI grant awarded to @lens/orb and the community went wild
**May 10:** Bonsai Ecosystem Support blog post shared, and we started reaching out to more projects and creators, LFG 🌸
**May 14:** 1M $BONSAI grant awarded to OfflineOracles 🔮
**May 16:** To this day, 15+ apps have added $BONSAI to their platforms, and this number continues to grow 🥳 and we’ve tripled the number of holders since the airdrop! 🎎
Any guess what is next? Hit us in the comments 👇
- 💥 @Scroll_ZKP Markes dashboard live
🔗scroll.io/sessions
✅Just connect wallet & check your marks
✅More ETH for long = More marks
✅This is season zero
📆Soon season 1
🪙I got 917 in one of my wallet
🤔What about u? Post📸 in comments
😂Did u pass?
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🔁RT
- I'm really proud that ethereum does not have any culture of trying to prevent people from speaking their minds, even when they have very negative feelings toward major things in the protocol or ecosystem.
Some wave the ideal of "open discourse" as a flag, some take it seriously.
- Ainslie Country Exploration; Assorted Advert Pckg. (1-5) [cigawrettes]; edition 1
In collaboration with Lens @lens/creators
- Share and mint marketplace NFTs without leaving the feed, just paste the URL and post.
Powered by @lens/decentdotxyz
Currently in beta on @lens/hey, initially supporting leading NFT marketplaces like @lens/superrareco, @lens/collectpods, Zora —with plans to support @lens/opensea, @lens/rarible, and additional NFT smart contract platforms.
Read more: <https://app.t2.world/article/clwasjr4z1573821zmc6hnj39lj>
- Posting everyday until Lens Network is deployed as a ZK Chain.
Day 1
- GM 🌅
- Frens, gather round. The Bonsai 🌳 has spoken;
🍃 Each of my leaves symbolizes innovation, 🎋 my branches are a community bond, and each soul around me is a revered Samurai 🥷 pursuing harmony and creativity.
🌳 Reserve your seat under our Bonsai by wearing our Jingasa now 🎎 , and stay tuned for more exciting things to come!
You can download your Jingasa via the link and add it to your PFP:
<https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Er92R1imD5QeegngqQ96fvukosYqrwQX>
- Posting everyday until Lens Network is deployed as a ZK Chain.
Day 2
- Built on Ethereum, powered by @lens/zksync
- Fumbling my way through Orb. Can I tip directly on here?
- We’re going afk.
@lens/stani and @lens/gluk64 (Founder, CEO of Matter Labs) discuss Lens Network, @lens/zksync and building things that matter.
May 23rd, RSVP: <https://lu.ma/afkberlin>
- ethOS phone open 😍🎁🌟
- A FREE COLLECT that will get you on the approved list to get one of my DOMS at a discount when they drop.
3 days only <3
DOMS is a music PFP project that will foster creatives in a way never seen before onchain.
- Make your own “what is Lens” mini video and I’ll create a community mash up video with them all.
- g (and I can't stress this enough) m
- What’s everyone doing tonight?
- We can't give you KOLs, but we will give you Zorbs.
Mint the Lens Network commemorative Zorb on Zora now: <https://zora.co/collect/eth:0x3d4914b0917fe61379aec014e6ebc2664182cfc6/1>
- This summer I want to go more to music festivals and concerts
- ZM
What's your favorite use case for ZK?
- Lens Network 🌿
Free Collect || 50 Editions
- Lens Network 🥷
- We're proud to support creatives ✨ with a 1M $BONSAI 🌳 grant for @lens/p00ls to kickstart the creator token supercycle 🌊
Stay tuned for more info 🦾
- congrats @lens/lens! the lens network on @lens/zksync will help onboard the next billion users.
orb is dedicated to building next-gen onchain social by democratizing monetization and enabling ownership with a fkn cool app, easy onboarding, and seamless onchain interactions :)
download the app and experience the future today.
- Lens Network
- Ladies assemble!
- gm
- gmeow 🐈⬛
slowly I get it, ngmi with my portfolio … (imagine being bullish on L2s if you can have all these amazing meme coins ;-)).
**pls shill me your favourite cat coin.**
☑️ must be a cat
☑️ must not have any utility. jpeg only!
- Just loaded up on a big bag of $BONSAI.
Who are your favorite creators on @lens/orb? Let's spread the love!
- Take an afk break to dive into crypto-politics, anonymity, and identity.
Fireside chat with @lens/simondenny (Artist and Professor at HBFK Hamburg) and Dr. Jaya Klara-Brekke (Chief Strategy Officer at NYM), at afk Berlin.
May 23rd, RSVP: [lu.ma/afkberlin](https://lu.ma/afkberlin)
- **The Downsides of Lens Network**
The general sentiment on the newly announced Lens Network seems to be overwhelmingly positive. However, it’s not all good news. Moving away from Polygon, the most-used chain in the world, comes with drawbacks.
**Network effect**
Because Polygon is the most-used chain, all of the DeFi and NFT services you know and love are already on the network. This includes OpenSea, Uniswap, Polymarket, newcomers like EAS, and *many* more. Lens Network won’t have any of these services at launch, and will need to individually convince each one that it’s worth supporting.
Part of the attraction with Lens Protocol is that it was meeting users where they already are.
**Tokens**
Bridging sucks, and moving to a new chain means you’ll need to bridge tokens to do literally anything. Some exchanges, like Coinbase, support Polygon natively, largely removing the need to bridge.
Launching a social token, like Bonsai, becomes far more difficult on a chain that isn’t supported anywhere. The reason Bonsai launch was successful was because there was real liquidity on Uniswap at launch. The largest $BONSAI traders don’t even have Lens profiles.
Remember: A memecoin without liquidity is just a meme.
**Existing work**
Moving from Polygon means that most Open Actions will no longer work, like swapping with Uniswap, polls with EAS, and proper NFT collections on OpenSea (which I was about to launch). I also planned to build a secondary market for Lens collectibles using the Open Actions with the SeaPort protocol, but now that won’t work either.
**Builder fatigue**
Lens V2 was a big change, requiring weeks of development time to support. There’s very little monetary incentive to build on Lens, so it will be difficult to convince builders to do it all over again, especially so soon after V2. The change to V2 saw the death of many apps, like LensPort, DumplingTV, Lensta, Riff, and others. So it’s not unusual to expect this change to have a similar effect.
As a builder who’s been focused on giving users the ability to create better Polygon NFTs with Open Actions, I feel this pain acutely.
**Premature**
I believe a good case can be made that Lens Network is a premature optimization. Preparing for a billion users when we’re struggling to attract 10k is difficult to understand. The network effect issue would be lessened if Lens Network came with hundreds of thousands of active users. That would be more than enough to convince the industry to support at launch. With under 15k daily active wallets, that might be a tougher sell.
**The bright side**
The argument can also easily be made that this is a necessary move for the future, and if there’s any team that can create network effects with an entirely new network, it’s Avara.
- Catch our Twitter Space with @lens/stani and @lens/gluk64 discussing the Lens Network, powered by @lens/zksync
May 15th, 2pm GMT
Set your reminder: <https://twitter.com/i/spaces/1kvJpvRoElaKE>
- Introducing Lens Network on Ethereum
Lens is excited to announce the Lens Network infrastructure that will support decentralized social spaces designed for mass adoption. Our vision is to make social spaces more open and...
https://app.t2.world/article/clw6l2z0018727620mc1dq26xr2
- Starting Lens Network AMA below. Post here questions during the next 24 hours (to cover all timezones) on Lens Network and will answer below during the day as the questions come.
- Lens Network
- I’m expecting this summer to be very warm
- Lens is changing
- Start your (virtual) engines 🏁
To celebrate the announcement of the Lens Network, Speed Tracer launched a new track and integrated a Lens Leaderboard!
<https://www.speedtracer.xyz/127>
Comment your scores below 👇
- Technology expands our freedoms, unleashing creativity and innovation. Both are fundamental for progress and prosperity.
Nowhere is this truer than @LensProtocol.
Learn more about Lens Network, deploying as a ZK Chain on @zksync.
- Going to @lens/ethberlin?
Join us at **afk Berlin**. More details 🔜
https://lu.ma/afkberlin
- We're going afk
A new event series by Lens. First stop: Berlin.
RSVP: <https://lu.ma/afkberlin>
The first afk event is May 23, in tandem with Berlin Blockchain Week and ETHBerlin. We're excited to celebrate a big milestone announcement with the Lens ecosystem and the Ethereum community.
The energy at each afk will be inspired by every city we visit. Berlin is a no-bs, über cool place that is home to a multitude of blockchain projects and some of the most interesting artists.
Explore immersive pop-up experiences brought to you by the Lens ecosystem, featuring T2, Bonsai and Orb. Enjoy a perfect blend of unique vibes complemented by food catering and beats by renowned DJ and producer, Sound of Fractures.
Enjoy a diverse set of sessions and experiences, with a wide range of topics, from crypto-politics, anonymity, privacy, social digital spaces and financial spaces, scalability and cultural actors.
Speakers attending include:
• Dr. Jaya Klara-Brekke: Chief Strategy Officer at NYM, building privacy-preserving infrastructure for our highly surveilled digital lives.
• Simon Denny: Artist and professor at HBFK Hamburg. Simon’s artwork explores systems of power and influence within present technologies.
• Stani Kulechov: Founder of Aave and Lens, CEO at Avara. Avara’s vision is a people-powered internet that benefits all.
• Alex Gluchowski: co-inventor of zkSync, co-founder and CEO of Matter Labs. Alex's passion lies in using technology to advance personal freedom, self-ownership, and decentralization.
• Abbey Titcomb: technologist, governance researcher, product strategist, and community developer/leader. Works at Radworks. Board member of the Better Internet Foundation and Optimism Foundation.
• Billy Rennekamp: Entrepreneur-in-Residence at 1kx, founder of Trifle Labs, Folia, and Clovers Network. Previously core contributor at Cosmos.
• Sirsu: co-founder and brand strategist for blvkhvnd, Project: STADIUM, The Mint Fund, Culture Media and 747 Airlines, a project at the intersection of cryptoeconomics, memecoins and culture.
• María Paula Fernández: Growth at Avara. Previously co-founder at JPG, a curation protocol, and Department of Decentralization/ETHBerlin.
• Rafathebuilder: Head of Governance at zkSync, insatiable community explorer, researcher and cultural commentator.
• Sarah Friend: artist, researcher and software engineer. Board of Directors and formerly smart contracts lead at Circles UBI, a blockchain-based community currency that aims to lead to a more equal distribution of wealth.
• Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley: is an Animator/Artist and games developer working predominantly in digital media to communicate the experiences of being a Black Trans person.
• Sam Hart: head of product and strategy at Skip Protocol, co-founder of Timewave Labs. Sam’s also part of the Other Internet squad, Folia, and maintainer of the Berlin Cybernetics Library.
Unplug, unwind, and celebrate with us at afk: <https://lu.ma/afkberlin>
Full blog: <https://app.t2.world/article/clvzgssqi1417721zmc0h7t84ih>
- Monday Down Under Vibe
- Ethereum
- Ta-da! I went to the trading card shop today! Hehehe 😆👍💯
- Offline Oracles is the recipient of a 1MM $BONSAI grant 🥳
Their team is cooking up something fun for onchain social!
- Ethereum
- As summer awakens, as a community so do we, embracing renewal and connecting with our core.
Starting by refreshing our brand identity, more exciting changes are coming 🌸🌿
- Can you spot me there?…
- Introducing Lens Network. Bringing one billion users to Ethereum.
Our mission is to create an open and fair social network for all. No restrictions. A place where everyone can connect, participate, and build. We believe that digital social spaces will drive Ethereum's mainstream adoption.
We are making a big bet to scale Lens with Validiums and Volitions on Ethereum, leveraging @lens/zksync’s stack to achieve mainstream scale for the social network.
Read more on @lens/t2world: <https://app.t2.world/article/clw6l2z0018727620mc1dq26xr2>
We have opened a LIP discussion for community feedback: <https://github.com/lens-protocol/LIPs/pull/54>
- I 🤍 the concept of phaves and would like to give my 10 daily phaves this week to new and small(er) @lens/lens profiles.
If thats’s you pls comment your favourite post.
If you’d like to push other profiles (content) pls comment their posts 🙏