Project description

Polyfans is a decentralized version of Patreon for web2 and web3 creators and their fans.

Polyfans is built on Polygon on top of Lens Protocol. Powered by Fluence, Sequence, Lit Protocol and IPFS.

Key features

• Decentralized -> can't be blocked, users own their content
• Extendable -> additional logic can be added via custom Lens protocol modules
• Pluggable -> can be used inside apps like Discord and Telegram

How it works

• All entities are NFTs: creators' profiles, posts, comments.
• All content and metadata are stored on IPFS. Polyfans used Infura provider for now. But we've started migration to Fluence nodes IPFS service to make our dapp more decentrilized
• To get access to exclusive content from creators a user has to get followNFT or collect post's NFT or fits any other on-chain conditions specified by the creator. Lit protocol is used to encrypt and decrypt hidden posts
• Social/email login and free transactions are available for web2 users via Sequence wallet and Lens API

Installation

Clone the repository

$ git clone https://github.com/kmadorin/polyfans.git
$ cd solaris-ui

Edit environment variables in .env file

cp .env.example .env

And after that use these commands:

$ npm install
$ npm run dev

Quick Links

Live Demo on Mumbai testnet

Figma prototype

Deck from Polygon Buidl It Summer 2022 hackathon

Next steps

We are looking for funding or grant support to continue the development and add new features such as:

• Reach web3-worthy editor for posts and comments
• Messages and notifications for followers using XMTP
• Live streams for followers using Livepeer. Using POAP tokens as a gateway to the recordings
• More complex follow modules logic. For example, depositing all fees to lending/borrowing protocols, etc.
• Decentralized API and indexer using Fluence, as well as Fluence-based IPFS gateways