Lens Chain, a new high-performance blockchain stack for SocialFi, is now live on mainnet, bringing unprecedented speed, scalability, and cost efficiency to social and financial applications.
“Lens Chain enables all web builders to deploy intuitive applications rapidly, regardless of blockchain experience,” said Lens Founder Stani Kulechov. “Built on future-proof technology and community insights, Lens drives development with low-cost, lightning-fast speed, and near-limitless scalability, allowing developers to deliver exceptional experiences for mainstream users while monetizing quickly.”
Lens Chain removes adoption barriers by simplifying blockchain complexity, reducing costs, and enhancing usability. With built-in distribution via the Lens social graph, and a robust DeFi ecosystem with partners like Uniswap, Across Protocol, Chainlink and Balancer, Lens Chain accelerates SocialFi growth, launching with 650,000 migrated accounts and 45,000 weekly active users.
Key Innovations and Features
Lens Chain is a full-stack SocialFi ecosystem, purpose-built from the ground up. It combines high-performing scalable infrastructure, smart contract social primitives, a robust developer dashboard, an onchain-permissioned storage solution and more – all integrated into one platform. With tools that accelerate development, streamline monetization, and ensure seamless UX, Lens gives builders everything needed to launch and scale SocialFi experiences onchain faster.
High Performance Infrastructure: Built on Ethereum’s decentralized foundation, Lens Chain ensures security and true user ownership. Its modular, open-source architecture enables instant transactions and a frictionless onchain experience. Lens Chain leverages ZKsync validiums and Avail for data availability, resulting in blazing-fast speeds, faster transactions, and unprecedented scalability, supporting microtransactions critical for SocialFi.
Lens V3: A Modular Protocol that Accelerates Innovation: Lens V3 provides a flexible toolkit of smart contracts or ‘social primitives’— Accounts, Usernames, Graphs, Feeds, Groups, Rules, and Actions— allowing builders to create composable social graphs, custom feeds, token-gated communities and more. Key benefits:
- Composable & Modular – Primitives act as interoperable building blocks that can be combined, reused, and extended permissionlessly, making feature integration seamless.
- Rapid Development – Pre-built modules accelerate deployment while maintaining flexibility, eliminating the need for extensive coding.
- Integrated Monetization – Built-in tools enable new revenue models for developers and creators.
Lens Developer Dashboard: Lens offers a comprehensive and UX friendly toolset for effortless SocialFi app development, including:
- No-code Modules: Instantly deploy ready-made Social Primitives with minimal coding
- Developer Sponsorships: Cover onchain costs with available developer credits
- SDKs & Libraries: Pre-built tools simplify integration
- Comprehensive Docs: Detailed resources for seamless development on Lens Chain
Grove: Grove is Lens Chain’s free onchain-permissioned storage solution, giving users and creators full control over their content. Key Benefits of Grove:
- Content Integrity: Ensures authenticity and security of user data
- Flexible Access Control: Users manage permissions across chains and applications
- User Empowerment: Users can modify and govern their data, aligning with the “not your keys, not your data” principle
- Multi-Chain Availability: Available across multiple EVM chains, including Ethereum Mainnet, ZKsync, Abstract, Sophon, and Base
Seamless Onboarding Tools and Wallet Management with Family: Family provides an intuitive, user-friendly toolkit designed to help developers simplify the onchain journey for users. As a self-custodial solution, Family removes complexities and security risks with crypto seed phrases through optional, free integration —leveraging email/SMS verification, advanced encryption, and passkey technology. With this solution, users can connect securely and easily via the Family iOS app or web browsers.
Stable and Predictable Gas Fees with GHO: Aave’s GHO stablecoin serves as Lens Chain’s native gas token, offering:
- Stable transaction costs for users
- Predictable budgeting for developers
- Protection from market volatility via dynamic pricing powered by onchain price feeds that align with Ethereum markets
Robust Ecosystem of Blue Chip Partners: Lens Chain has partnered with top DeFi and infrastructure providers to create a thriving ecosystem, making it easier for developers to build scalable applications and bootstrap liquidity.
These partners include: Alchemy, Circle, Chainlink, Consensys, Dune, Halliday, Redstone, Safe, Tenderly, The Graph, and ThirdWeb. As part of its strategy to support a liquid social and financial ecosystem, Lens has partnered with Uniswap, Safe, Balancer, Across Protocol, Li.fi, Jumper Exchange, Metamask, Rabby, DeBank, Zapper, Zerion, and LayerZero, all available on Lens on launch or within days of launch.
A Thriving Ecosystem
- A thriving ecosystem with 650,000 migrated user accounts, industry-leading partners, and an expanding dApp portfolio—including migrated Lens apps Hey, Orb, Soclly, and Tape, as well as new arrivals like Fountain, Bonsai, Rekt, and Litebeem.
- Lens Chain is part of the Elastic Network, an ecosystem of 20+ chains powered by ZKsync. In the Elastic Network, developers are able to fully customize their chains and apps to meet user needs, while still being able to benefit from the network effects of the entire rollup cluster.
Lens Chain is Designed for Developers & Users
- Easiest place to build SocialFi experiences — the intuitive Lens Developer Dashboard makes SocialFi development seamless
- Accelerated time-to-market with pre-built Lens V3 modules for rapid iteration and innovation
- Access to a thriving ecosystem with a robust infrastructure that reduces development overhead and accelerates growth
- Full digital sovereignty with Grove, enabling user-controlled storage
- Intuitive onboarding and predictable gas fees with Family and GHO make it similar to Web2
- Users can now claim their Lens accounts free of charge here.
- Discover applications like Orb (mobile) or Hey (web) and more experimental SocialFi apps coming soon to the ecosystem
Strategic Funding & Future Growth
Lens Chain’s launch follows a $31 million strategic funding round led by Lightspeed Faction, accelerating ecosystem development and innovation in SocialFi. Lens has raised $45M to date across two funding rounds, backed by additional investors such as General Catalyst, Consensys, Blockchain Capital and Galaxy Digital.
About Lens Chain
Lens Chain is a Layer 2 blockchain optimized for SocialFi, providing scalability, speed, and cost-efficiency for decentralized SocialFi applications. With a modular social protocol, onchain content storage, and stable gas fees via GHO, Lens Chain drives Web3 adoption. Lens is part of parent company Avara, which includes Aave Labs and Family. Follow us on Lens.
About Avail
Avail is a modular blockchain infrastructure designed to enable high-throughput, verifiable, and cost-efficient data availability for Web3 applications. Optimized for ZK-rollups and modular execution environments, Avail DA provides scalable blockspace, decentralized validation through Data Availability Sampling (DAS), and a shared security model through Avail Fusion. With Avail Nexus, the network will enable seamless cross-rollup and cross-chain communication, unlocking a truly interconnected Web3 ecosystem. For more information, visit www.availproject.org and follow Avail on X, Lens, Discord, and GitHub.
About ZKsync
ZKsync is the pioneering ZK technology powering the next generation of builders with limitless scale. Secured by math and designed for native interoperability, ZKsync enables the Elastic Network, an ever-expanding ecosystem of customizable chains. Deeply rooted in its mission to advance personal freedom for all, ZKsync makes digital self-ownership widely available.
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