Lens Protocol
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Lens Protocol’s second version is on a waitlist, and developers didn’t provide a timeline for when it would hit mainnet
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Most of the Web3 world tends to congregate in Web2 social platforms, despite their many flaws
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On top of Lens Protocol’s $15 million raise, Web3 gaming again took a significant portion of the funding this week
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Web2 social media platforms are among the largest companies in the world, with billions of users happily handing over their personal information
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‘Momoka’ stores transactions off-chain to achieve higher transactions per second, the team says
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“These startup decentralized networks may not take over in 2023, but they will cause big players to take notice,” the report said
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NFT Worlds rebrands after Minecraft NFT ban, and exchange KuCoin launches an NFT ETF
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“Lens will be the infrastructure that will give rise to the golden age of Web3 apps,” Aave CEO Stani Kulechov told Blockworks
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Lens Protocol launches after Aave founder Stani Kulechov’s public push to decentralize social media
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