Connection

A connection that represents relationships between two identities. Social connections include following and subscribing to a creator, being friends with your buddies, belonging to an organization, and participating in activities.

Follow

Follow is the simplest form of unilateral connection where one address follows another address. This address to address following connection is stored in cost-efficient decentralized storage Arweave. This is great for applications with light weight social graph needs like following another user’s wallet activity.

Paid Subscribe

While Follow represents a directed relationship from one address to the other, Subscribe represent the relationship from one address to a profile. Profiles have the ability to being subscribed to with payment attached. Each user after creating a profile could set up rules for subscription. Each profile could specify the amount of token needed to pay for becoming a subscribers to that profile and subscribers will obtain a subscriber NFT.