Company attributes
Built with Lens Protocol, Lenster is a composable, decentralized, and permissionless social media web application. It is Lens’s inaugural Web3 social experience that acts as the full-featured way to utilize Lens Protocol to interact with social graphs. It functions like Twitter in layout and execution and possesses additional support for different kinds of NFTs.
The open-source, decentralized social media web app lives in the Polygon network, allowing users to interact with the decentralized app. Content cannot be taken down from the app, even by the admins. Users are not required to provide personal information except a username and wallet address. The Lens Protocol team does not moderate posts, and every post is public.
In Lenster, users need to pay gas for everything. It is hosted in a decentralized chain and decentralized file storage system, IPFS. It uses Next.js for front-end framework and Tailwind for design. It is Lens's official Indexer for API and was formerly hosted in Vercel.
- Mirror a post
- Comment on a post
- Create a post
- Create a user profile
- Follow profiles
- Collect publications
- Launch a DAO from profile follow NFTs (coming soon)
- Super follows (Coming Soon)
- Create crowdfunding (coming soon)
- 2022 Q1—Project setup and launch of closed alpha to users with mainnet balance of at least $5. Minimal dApp usage, and users can create profiles and post different contents on-chain.
- 2022 Q2—Release of Lenster beta to Discord server members. The app still uses testnet. If Lens protocol is moved to mainnet, it will be ready to switch.
- 2022 Q3—General availability of Lenster app, developer onboarding for dApp improvement, and use of the prize as bounties to the developers.
- 2022 Q4—Launch the Lenster DAO and Governance token that will be utilized to manage the DAO with different groups and subgroups built in, including Ecosystem, Public Goods, Meta governance, etc.
