Onchain Social

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Lens goes permissionless profile mints, letting anyone mint and own an on‑chain profile; the protocol reports 250,000 profiles minted and roughly $1M treasury from mint and fee revenue. Over 400 projects (Orb, Hey, Tape.xyz among them) use Lens, with composable open actions and smart‑contract modules enabling on‑feed swaps, paid collects and programmable fee splits (LIP‑16). Architecture targets future scaling to 50M TPS and uses LIPs for community‑driven protocol changes.

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1. 0:00Introduction to Lens Protocol and Stani Kulechov
2. 0:48Lens Goes Permissionless: What It Means
3. 1:43Decentralized Social Network Vision
4. 2:23Building Lens Protocol from Scratch
5. 3:00Community-Driven Development Approach
6. 3:38Transition to Permissionless Model
7. 4:16On-Chain Profile Ownership Explained
8. 4:50Growth Metrics After Going Permissionless
9. 5:26Sustainable Protocol Fee Model
10. 6:04$1M Treasury from Profile Mints
11. 6:43Transparent Social Media Monetization
12. 7:15Why Lens Has No Default App
13. 7:48Protocol-First vs App-First Strategy
14. 8:23Encouraging Application Diversity
15. 8:59Emerging Lens Ecosystem Economy
16. 9:35Portable Identity Across Apps
17. 10:09Top Lens Apps: Orb and Hey
18. 10:43400+ Projects Building on Lens
19. 11:22Mobile-First Social Experiences
20. 11:54Small Teams Can Build on Lens
21. 12:30Video Apps Like Tape.xyz
22. 13:01Open Actions: Protocol Extensions
23. 13:35Smart Contract Social Features
24. 14:10Governance and Trading in Feeds
25. 14:44Programmable Revenue Sharing
26. 15:15Improving Lens Through LIPs
27. 15:54Community Governance Framework
28. 16:28Lens Improvement Proposals (LIPs)
29. 17:06Team and Community Collaboration
30. 17:41Monetization Sharing (LIP-16)
31. 18:14App-to-App Fee Distribution
32. 18:49Economic Alignment in Ecosystem
33. 19:23Can Decentralized Social Scale?
34. 19:58Technical Scaling Solutions
35. 20:3450M TPS Future Architecture
36. 21:06Comparing to Twitter's Peak Load
37. 21:38Rebuilding Internet with Ownership
38. 22:16Creating New Social Experiences
39. 22:47Compounding Network Effects

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