Lens Chain Mainnet Launch: A SocialFi Scalable Revolution Based on Avail DA and ZKsync

Lens officially launches its exclusive blockchain Lens Chain - built on the Avail DA infrastructure to create a seamless SocialFi experience.

Written by: Lens Protocol Chinese Community

On April 4, 2025, Lens Chain will officially launch, ushering in a new era of SocialFi. With the launch of the Lens mainnet, Web3 social applications will achieve scalability, cost-effectiveness, and true user ownership.

The core of this upgrade lies in the data availability (DA) layer of Avail, ensuring that Lens Chain has verifiability, scalability, and decentralization features from the day it went live.

• Lens Chain is designed for large-scale applications:
• No Gas Fee Transaction
• Modular social protocol with pre-built social foundational components (Lens V3)
• On-chain content storage system (Grove)
• Built-in distribution network based on Lens social graph
• DeFi Integration and dApp Ecosystem

These factors together constitute the catalyst for the explosive growth of SocialFi.

"To empower the new generation of SocialFi applications, we enable all web developers—regardless of whether they have blockchain and smart contract experience—to quickly deploy on Lens Chain," said Lens founder Stani Kulechov. "Built on cutting-edge, future-oriented technology and deep industry insights, Lens Chain not only accelerates the development process but also offers high speed, scalability, and low cost. This allows developers from diverse backgrounds to provide users with an excellent on-chain experience and quickly realize profits in various ways."

The following text will deeply analyze the significant importance of this mainnet launch and reveal how Avail lays a solid foundation for the development of SocialFi.

Lens Chain: The flagship SocialFi L2 chain designed for scaling.

Traditional social media has been criticized for its centralization—platforms dominate profit distribution, and users lack ownership. Lens offers a solution to break the deadlock. The Lens protocol, first launched in February 2022, pioneered a decentralized social graph deeply integrated with Blockchain technology, aiming to empower creators and developers to build and operate decentralized social applications. However, with the surge in user activity and data volume, Lens urgently needs a scalable and cost-effective solution tailored for high-frequency on-chain social interactions.

To this end, Lens has built a dedicated Layer 2 network and fully migrated the Lens V2 data originally deployed on Polygon to the mainnet. This migration is one of the largest data migrations in blockchain history, with a total of 125GB of storage logs transferred since the genesis Block.

• Migrate 650,000 user profiles while fully preserving digital identities and social graphs.
• 28 million social relationships, ensuring seamless transition of network connections
• Over 12 million posts and content migrated without loss
• 125GB historical data (including past interaction records) is permanently stored on Avail DA

Supporting such a large-scale migration requires a modular, scalable, secure, and decentralized high-performance execution and data availability architecture — this is precisely the core value provided by the collaboration between ZKsync and Avail DA.

The now-launched Lens Chain is a network built for large-scale SocialFi, which has the following three major technical pillars:

• ZKsync Integration: Achieve Rollup-level scaling and low-cost transactions through high-performance ZK Stack and elastic scaling network.
• Avail DA: A censorship-resistant data publication verification system optimized for ZK Stack, combining security and economy.
• GHO stablecoin as Gas token: Users can use GHO from the Aave ecosystem to pay transaction fees, with transparent and stable costs.

Lens and Aave founder Stani Kulechov has a deep foundation in building open, user-governed financial infrastructure. Among them, Aave has become a leader in the DeFi market, with its protocol locking a total value (TVL) of over $34 billion across 11 blockchains and 13 markets. According to the Bankless Times report in December 2024, Aave occupies 45% of the DeFi lending market share. Lens completed a $31 million financing led by Lightspeed Faction in December 2024, highlighting the market's confidence in Lens Chain's focus on the SocialFi sector.

The following will delve into how Avail builds a core value network for the next generation of SocialFi infrastructure.

Avail: The cornerstone of data availability for Lens Chain

Scaling decentralized social applications means handling millions of posts, interactions, and media files while ensuring smooth operation of the Blockchain. Avail achieves rapid finality (around 40 seconds) and instant data confirmation capability, enabling fast and verifiable processing of massive data without sacrificing decentralization, security, or cost efficiency. This is the core reason why Lens Chain chose Avail.

Why is Avail specifically designed for scalable SocialFi?

• Modular design: The Avail DA layer is decoupled from the execution layer technology stack, supporting various architectures such as ZK-Rollup, Validium, sovereign chains, and Optimistic Rollup. Currently customized for Lens Chain to adapt to ZK Stack.
• Elastic Block Space: Currently supports 4MB/Block, expandable to 128MB/Block (throughput increased by 64 times), ensuring Lens Chain grows without bottlenecks.
• Fast Data Verification: Provides the fastest DA verification in Web3, allowing data to be verified in about 40 seconds, and reduced to 250 milliseconds through Avail Turbo DA.
• Seamless cost internalization: With Avail's high data throughput, on-chain transaction costs are reduced by 90% compared to Ethereum—down to a level where developers can directly incorporate it into their operating cost system, just like traditional Web2 application server hosting fees.

No permission verification required: The uniqueness of Avail lies in its construction of a tamper-proof data availability layer through KZG commitments, ensuring data verifiability with Data Availability Sampling (DAS) technology. This architecture perfectly aligns with the Ethereum danksharding roadmap, which also aims to support both KZG commitments and DAS technology systems.

By using Avail DA, Lens Chain ensures that its SocialFi ecosystem can scale almost infinitely, keeping costs under control while providing a Web2-like experience, along with cryptographic-level decentralization.

Avail co-founder Anurag Arjun pointed out: "For open social to become mainstream, it must have scalability, cost efficiency, and user experience. The launch of Lens Chain is a key step towards this goal. Avail DA provides a verifiable, low-cost scalable foundation, which is exactly the core requirement for high-throughput Blockchain applications."

The practical significance for developers and users

For developers, Lens Chain and Avail unlock new possibilities for building SocialFi applications. Lens Chain is designed for usability and scalability, with built-in account abstraction features and login via Family wallet (supporting email or phone verification - no seed phrases needed), allowing users to seamlessly go on-chain.

Developer Empowerment:

• Zero-friction development: Lens V3 provides a modular component library (account system, username system, information flow engine, graph protocol), supporting the rapid combination of innovative social features.
• Native profit model: One-click integration of token-gated content, NFT membership, micro-subscriptions, social tokens, and other on-chain rules to build a new type of interaction and revenue system.
• Fast and scalable user experience: ZKsync rollups can compress and batch transactions to reduce Gas costs and accelerate execution speed, while Avail DA ensures data is available and verifiable in real-time—achieving a large-scale seamless user experience.

User Value Reconstruction:

• Full Sovereignty: Users have complete control over their content and identity, ending the data monopoly of centralized platforms.
• Lower costs: GHO+Avail enables an almost zero-cost on-chain interaction experience.
• Next Generation SocialFi: Achieving the integration of social, revenue generation, and governance in a decentralized user sovereignty economy.

Ecological Migration Wave: Who is Migrating to Lens Chain?

Mainstream Web3 social applications are utilizing Avail DA to migrate or expand to Lens Chain:

• Orb: Web3 Social Media Platform
• Hey: Open-source social network driven by on-chain identity
• Bonsai: AI-driven SocialFi launch platform
• Tape: Content Creation and Monetization Platform
• Soclly: Web3 version of LinkedIn

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GM! Today Lens is finally officially launched!!!

) Avail Future Blueprint: Nexus and Fusion Unlock Infinite Possibilities

Although Avail DA has set a benchmark for scalable and verifiable data availability, the future is far beyond that. The upcoming Avail Unification Stack will introduce two core components—Nexus and Fusion—opening up new possibilities for Web3 social networks, gaming, payments, and DeFi.

• Avail Nexus: A permissionless interoperability layer that enables seamless communication between Rollups and sovereign chains. Avail Nexus unlocks liquidity access across multiple ecosystems, achieving a true cross-chain economy.
• Avail Fusion: Multi-asset re-staking shared security layer. Supports staking of assets such as BTC, ETH, SOL, ERC-20, enhancing the security of Avail, providing developers with shared crypto economic security, while unlocking new earning opportunities for users.

Summary

Lens Chain is not just a Layer 2 network - it is an infrastructure specifically built for scaling SocialFi natively. Driven by the triple forces of ZKsync, Avail DA, and the Lens protocol, this long-awaited disruptive breakthrough in the Web3 world has arrived.