TBA 🤝 Lens

This project explores the possibilities of a NFT having its own smart account that it controls using ERC-6551. The ability to collect erc20 and erc721 tokens and execute transactions as a NFT is pretty impressive. In this project, I built on top of Lens to make a user's identity transferable and not locked to one private key.

With my project, a Lens handle that collects posts, mirrors, earns revenue, and collects followers is bound to a NFT that can be transferred. Some use cases include:

• If a private key is leaked and I don't want to be impersonated, I can move what I have built up to a secure wallet.
• If I minted my handle on my hot wallet and want to move it to a cold wallet or multisig wallet.
• If a company's marketing person leaves the company and the company handle was created with their private key.
• If I am a tech blogger and have built a following and want to sell it.

The token-bound accounts are ERC-4337, so they support features like bundling transactions and having paymasters. I started on a custom paymaster that would sponsor transactions with an ERC20 token, but I was unable to finish it in time. A project can dedicate a budget for each holder to do an action like staking or listing. In my example, I wanted each token-bound account to receive $GHO tokens during mint, which would pay for the Lens actions that a holder could do.

Built smart contracts using Hardhat and deployed them on the Polygon network. Specifically, implemented ERC-6551 (https://eips.ethereum.org/EIPS/eip-6551) along with ERC-4337 from the popular account-abstraction package. To make communication with the contracts easier and more efficient, we added a subgraph from The Graph platform using CLI.

For the frontend, we used Next.js and hosted on Vercel and styled it with the @nextui-org/react library and Tailwind. Web3 read/write was used with wagm. Used the Lens SDK and Lens subgraph to fetch information from Lens.