To help generalize what we look at, at The Grid, we use the concept of a lens that acts as a way to capture what’s relevant to that user. It is helpful to think of this in first principles thinking.
There are currently 8 lenses that we use at the Grid:
- Profiles
- Products
- Assets
- Entities
- Socials
- URLs
- Smart Contract Helpers
- Internal Helpers
Jerry walks up to the store.... He sees it through a profile lens, with it contains many things:
- What do they offer
- What do they do
- What currency they support
- A real world identifier
Jerry walks into the store. He browses different products in different tagged areas of the store, sometimes wanting to learn more:
- What does this do?
- How does it describe it’s self?
- What does it work with?
Jerry really enjoy his experience at the store & also needs to pay, he checks which assets they support or may even have issued. Sometimes, if I have the right collectable, I get a 10% discount:
- What currencies are supported here?
- Did this place issue their own asset?
- Are they are the same network?
Jerry wanted to first check that this was legit, he wanted to check if it was an official entity:
- What is the local registration of this business?
- What is the structure behind it?
- What licenses do they have?