Aave’s Lens Protocol raises $15M to build the decentralized social web

Aave’s Lens Protocol raises $15M to build the decentralized social web

Lens Protocol, a web3 product aimed at creating a decentralized social networking ecosystem, has raised $15 million, its team told TechCrunch exclusively. The protocol is being built by Aave, a web3 technology firm, that allows users to lend and borrow crypto tokens from one another, among other things (Aave has raised a known $49 million […]

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With Lens Cloud, Snap offers back-end services for its developer platform

With Lens Cloud, Snap offers back-end services for its developer platform

Snap isn’t just the company behind popular social app Snapchat. It has also built a powerful augmented reality developer platform called Snap AR — it spreads beyond Snapchat thanks to Camera Kit, an SDK solution that lets you integrate Snap’s camera capabilities in other apps. In Snap jargon, Lenses are essentially augmented reality apps that […]

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