Crypto-based Twitter alternative Lens Protocol addresses problems Elon Musk says he wants to solve, founder says | South China Morning Post

Last month, after Elon Musk said he would acquire Twitter Inc , a Finnish cryptocurrency developer named Stani Kulechov tweeted a joke saying he was selected as Twitter's interim chief executive officer. Then Twitter briefly suspended his account. On Wednesday, Kulechov will deliver his response: He built a rival social network based on blockchain technology, which will become available for anyone to access for the first time. The network, Lens Protocol, allows people to post and follow but differs from Twitter in a major way: Each piece of content is associated with non-fungible token (NFT) , giving the creator ownership…