Pioneering Decentralized Social Media

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Aave reports about a billion dollars locked in its protocol and Lens is live on Polygon for months, offering decentralized profiles on Polygon where profiles and follow relationships are stored as smart-contract state. Lens is built as modular composable smart contracts so multiple apps share the same social graph, while moderation, verification and monetization are community-driven moderation choices. Current work focuses on data availability + rollups to scale user-facing apps and keep on‑chain guarantees without storing every interaction on Ethereum.

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1. 0:00Returning to Slush
2. 1:56Access and Aave origins
3. 3:46Designing Lens Protocol
4. 5:18Building on Lens
5. 7:04The case for decentralized social
6. 8:49Creator economy impact
7. 10:32Moderation and trust
8. 12:53Free speech in Web3
9. 14:31The future of social media
10. 16:26Revenue and governance
11. 19:02Lens roadmap
12. 20:14Scalability and adoption
13. 22:43Crypto impact and reflections

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