A publication about who owns the video.
Most coverage of decentralized video stops at the pitch. This one keeps going, into the transcoding bills, the moderation calls, and the payout data.
- Is this the original Lenstube?
- No. The original Lenstube was an open-source video client on Lens Protocol. It became Tape and now lives at tape.xyz. This site is an independent publication that picked up the address after it was released.
- Why keep the name?
- Because the subject did not change. The questions Lenstube existed to answer, about who owns a video and the audience attached to it, are the ones worth writing about.
- What gets covered?
- Protocol design, storage and transcoding costs, client-side moderation, and creator payout data. Anything where a claim about ownership can be checked against what the stack actually does.
Where the history comes from
The account of this domain's earlier life is drawn from the project's own repository and archived captures of the site between 2022 and 2026.