Lens Chain V3: A Highly Scalable SocialFi Layer-2 Network Based on Avail DA
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Lens Chain V3: A Highly Scalable SocialFi Layer-2 Network Based on Avail DA
If you used Lens ecosystem apps like Orb, Tape, Hey, or Soclly early on, you might qualify for the annual SocialFi airdrop.
Navigating Web3 tides with focused insightsAuthor: Stacy Muur
Translation: Tim, PANews
When social applications on general-purpose blockchains hit a development bottleneck, they build their own dedicated chain and migrate 125GB of social history data onto it.
This is exactly what Lens Chain has done by launching a SocialFi Layer 2.
This L2 leverages Avail's Data Availability (DA) technology to scale at low cost, supporting billions of users.
Social media is the most widely used consumer product on the internet.
With 5.4 billion users spending an average of 2.5 hours daily, yet built upon closed and fragmented infrastructures—plagued by unavoidable censorship, platform-locked profiles, and accounts that can be suspended at any moment.
Lens is a user-owned social protocol built on Avail, with ownership at its core.
What is Lens Chain?
Lens is laying the foundation for decentralized, user-owned social networks that are fully portable.
An open garden, free platforms.
You fully own your social graph.
Core Tech Stack:
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ZKSync Elastic Chain for high-speed transaction execution
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Avail as the DA layer ensuring censorship-resistant data availability
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GHO as the native gas token
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Family enabling walletless login
This is a customized tech stack, with Avail as the key scaling component.
Choosing Avail proved to be a wise decision, as SocialFi apps require cost-effective, large-scale data availability solutions to reduce costs. In contrast, Ethereum’s blobspace solution is ten times more expensive.
Why Are Infrastructure Requirements So Stringent for SocialFi?
First, social networks generate massive amounts of data:
Profiles, posts, interactions, follows, and media.
Therefore, Lens needs a horizontally scalable data availability layer—one capable of expanding block space in response to explosive demand growth, without sacrificing security or decentralization.
The only solution that meets these criteria: the Avail DA layer.
To launch Lens Chain V3, the team migrated 125GB of historical data from Lens V2 on Polygon. This includes: over 660,000 user profiles, 28 million follow relationships, 16 million pieces of content (posts, comments, reposts), and 50 million interactions.
Lens V3: The Evolution of SocialFi
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Programmable smart accounts (no longer supporting static NFTs)
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Global social graph: advanced follow functions and social relationship queries
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Native on-chain features: token-gated content, paywalls, micropayments
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Seamless developer experience: building social features at unprecedented speed
Why Lens chose Avail over other solutions:
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Horizontal scalability: block size scaling from 4MB → 128MB → recently announced leap to 1GB → 10GB
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Fast finality: currently ~40 seconds, targeting ~250 milliseconds
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Peer-to-peer DAS technology: enables trustless light clients
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Cost advantage: data availability costs over 90% lower than Ethereum
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Modular design: compatible with various scaling solutions including ZKsync, Validiums, and Optimistic rollups
Avail’s Massive Revenue Opportunity
As Lens grows, every post, like, follow, and share touches the Avail DA layer.
Other L2s, rollup scaling solutions, and app chains are following suit.
More integrations → more data generated → more fees captured by Avail.
And Avail’s processing cost is just one-tenth of Ethereum’s Blobspace.
To scale like traditional social platforms, SocialFi requires low-cost data availability layers.
In March 2024, Arbitrum paid $7.82 million for Ethereum’s Blobspace.
Using Avail’s DA layer, this cost could be reduced by 90%.
This is the marginal efficiency Avail achieves through scale.
Lens has raised over $46 million in funding, founded by Stani Kulechov, the creator of Aave.
No token has been issued yet, but it now has its own chain.
If you previously used Lens ecosystem apps such as Orb, Tape, Hey, or Soclly, you may qualify for upcoming annual SocialFi airdrops.
Given the strategic partnership between Avail and Lens, consider staking $AVAIL tokens to boost your airdrop eligibility weight.
Introduction to Lens Ecosystem Apps:
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Orb.club: Web3 social engagement platform
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Hey.xyz: On-chain identity and social network
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Tape.xyz: Innovative content creation and monetization
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Soclly: Web3 professional networking platform
All built on Avail’s DA technology.
With the official launch of Lens Chain:
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Developers gain modular components to build social apps
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Users enjoy true content ownership + smart wallets
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Creators access direct monetization channels (NFTs, tokens, subscriptions)
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