How Will Lens V2 Impact Decentralized Social Media? | EP 29

Sep 19, 2023

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Imran and Qiao invited Stani Kulechov to discuss how Lens V2 will impact decentralized social media.

No BS crypto insight for founders.

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(00:00) Intro
(01:14) Welcome to GoodGame
(01:29) It seems like the next era of crypto is going to be decentralized social
(02:38) Key differences between decentralized social and DeFi
(06:42) Qiao: Social is the single most interesting area that's happening in crypto right now
(07:39) What we would like to learn from Lens and Stani
(09:48) Let's bring on Stani
(11:31) What is Lens?
(14:24) Lens didn't have a client app when it launched?
(18:26) The biggest difference between Lens and others (e.g. Farcaster)
(26:00) What's new with Lens v2?
(33:08) Everything is on-chain on Lens v1, how about v2?
(37:20) Is Momoka based on existing availability layer?
(44:52) The follow function
(50:17) Stani's thoughts on Friend.tech
(52:02) You can build Friend.tech on Lens v2, right?
(53:16) What does Stani think about RWAs? Does AAVE want to do anything in that area?
(54:00) What's the most obvious asset to be tokenized next and get adopted in DeFi?
(1:03:03) How did AAVE found its first 100 users?
(1:05:09) How big of a role did AAVE token play in terms of growth?
(1:05:57) Any major pivots from AAVE?
(1:09:03) Stani's thoughts about point system and speculation
(1:10:46) Is Lens thinking about airdrop, speculative points, etc?
(1:11:36) Stani's final comments/thoughts
(1:12:13) Outro / Debrief
(1:12:26) Points that stood out to Qiao
(1:13:58) One of the Lens v2 features Imran is excited about
(1:17:22) Monetization of the value chain
(1:20:27) Which app would be easy for normies to get onboarded to?

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