Avail DA and Lens officially announced cooperation, unlocking DecentralizationSocial Web new era

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Social Web protocol Lens announced that it will utilize Avail DA to build a scalable and resilient Decentralization Social Web. Lens stated that ‘Avail DA ensures instant data verifiability and accessibility and, through KZG commitments and data availability sampling (DAS), can support millions of users’ scalability.

Lens is a user-centric social application protocol, like hey and orb. Lens aims to empower millions of users to enjoy an open and fair online social space. Its openness ensures that anyone can connect and participate at the protocol level, and its fairness ensures that anyone can participate freely and have a more equitable chance of receiving Tokens.

The reason Lens chose Avail is its powerful and future-oriented DA solution, which is optimized for the ZK technology stack. The common vision of Lens and Avail is to provide users with a unified blockchain experience. With the support of Avail, Lens is expected to unlock a new world, where blockchain-based social applications can seamlessly interact with various blockchain services. Through integration, Lens and Avail are laying the foundation for an open, scalable, user-centric, and resilient future of the Social Web.

Why is it so difficult to expand the Social Web on Blockon-chain?

The Social Web generates a large amount of data, with posts, likes, comments, and connections being data-intensive activities. Today’s Social Web is built on a centralized architecture, with a dynamic user experience as the exchange, and is controlled at almost every level of the stack. This has resulted in almost all of our online social interactions being controlled by a few companies.

In history, the on-chain network has always struggled to support the high transaction throughput required by mainstream consumer applications. By leveraging ZKsync’s ZK stack, Lens is able to scale execution to support social applications and Settlement transactions on the ETH network. However, the remaining question is how to handle all transaction data. Even with the implementation of EIP-4844, publishing transaction data to the ETH network is not a commercially viable option for the Social Web. This is where Avail DA comes in.

Introducing Lens on Avail DA

By connecting Avail DA, ZKsync, and Ethereum, Lens is able to build a modular blockchain, increasing throughput exponentially at a very low cost.

Lens enables users and developers to create and enjoy their own, fair, and flexible online Social Web. By opening up the Social Web at the protocol level, users can leverage different social applications while retaining all their social connections and capital. If Instagram stops showing posts to your followers and requires you to pay to access them, you can quickly switch to an app that gives you the ability to freely interact with your users, representing a significant paradigm shift from the current state. This is also a more urgent demand for the millions of content creators who spend hours creating content on centralized social platforms, as they receive little in return.

Lens founder Stani Kulechov said, ‘Our goal with Lens is to create a fully elastic network on the ETH platform that ensures participation and transparency at every level, supports ownership and control, and unlocks new and interesting use cases.’ ‘With a scalable and flexible foundation, the next-generation modular Lens utilizes Avail DA to achieve state-of-the-art and future-oriented data availability solutions.’

Build a future-oriented Block chain network optimized for ZK technology

Lens believes that ZK technology is the best long-term solution for expanding blockchain applications. Its profound scalability advantages and rapid performance improvements far surpass any alternative solutions. Based on this insight, the Lens team has begun planning and implementing the modular architecture of Lens.

The Lens team is starting to integrate with ZKstack, incorporating ZK rollup technology into its execution layer. Knowing that it is not feasible to publish all data to Ethereum, the Lens team begins to look for an optimized DA solution. This leads them to Avail, the only on-chain neutral DA layer that combines KZG commitment and data availability sampling (DAS).

With Avail DA, the Lens architecture is able to utilize validity proof to enforce and make data available. This enables Lens to achieve scalability and data compression, far beyond the possibilities of Optimistic solutions.

In addition to leveraging the data availability layer of Avail, the ability to interoperate with a large number of blockchain services through Avail Nexus also aligns with Lens’ long-term goals. By choosing to integrate with Avail DA, Lens can provide a Web2-like user experience for mainstream audiences, built on a unified Web3 foundation, optimizing interoperability. This is a game-changer for Decentralization social technology.

Protecting Open Social Data on Avail DA

Lens has officially launched, currently with around 500,000 users and over 40 million transactions. The next generation Lens will be launched in the fourth quarter of 2024, marking an important step forward for Decentralization and the Social Web.

Developers can use Avail’s scalable technology to unlock the mainstream use cases of blockchain technology and begin preparing to use Lens to build the next generation of elastic Social Web.

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