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- Lens Closes $31 Million Strategic Raise
Lens describes itself as a new social layer for onchain culture and communities, offering apps that work with a Lens Account. The listed apps include Palus, a free open-source client for Lens activity, Mailens for email, Hey for paid posting and social payments, and Lensie, an NFT marketplace. Others are Cantuum for music, Grove Drive for file storage, Soclly, 0xfm for onchain radio on Lens Chain, and Rekt for crypto investigations. The page says Lens is part of MaskDAO but does not mention the $31 million strategic raise named in the title.
- Introducing the New Lens
Lens presents itself as a new social layer for onchain culture and communities, where one Lens Account works across several apps. Palus is a free, open-source client for Lens activity across every app, and Hey lets users pay to post and earn from social payments. Other listed apps include Mailens for email, Lensie for NFTs, Cantuum for music, Grove Drive for file storage, Soclly as a Web3 social aggregator, 0xfm for onchain radio on Lens Chain, and Rekt for crypto investigations. Lens is part of MaskDAO, which is building onchain products.
- Custom Username Namespaces - Lens
This guide explains how Builders can create and manage Custom Username Namespaces, which are app- or group-specific namespaces that can govern username issuance, monetization and more through Username Rules. To create one, a Builder constructs and uploads a Namespace Metadata object, then deploys a Lens Namespace smart contract with the createUsernameNamespace action. The guide also covers fetching a namespace by address or transaction hash with fetchNamespace, searching namespaces with fetchNamespaces, and access control, where the Owner can transfer ownership and Administrators can update metadata, rules and extra data.
- Mask Network to Steward the Next Chapter of Lens
Mask Network will become the new steward of Lens, taking over the next phase of the decentralized social platform from the original Lens team, which will move into an advisory role. The announcement says Mask has the product expertise to move Lens from infrastructure to everyday consumer use, with the goal of a unified social experience built on Lens Chain. Lens launched V1 in May 2022, went live on Polygon mainnet in April 2023, and launched Lens Chain and V3 in April 2025, with all user data and connections migrated in the largest migration to date. The text names Suji Yan as leading Mask's involvement.
- Lens Token Distributor
Lens has built a Token Distributor for gasless token distribution based on real user value rather than surface-level activity, and it is now in early testing, distributing GHO directly to qualifying users' Lens Accounts with no claim process. The first phase focuses on GHO, though the system supports any ERC-20 token. Users are ranked on behavior such as engagement frequency, how others respond to their content, trust and network connections measured by PageRank, onchain financial activity, and steady engagement over time. An ML model filters out bots, spam, and low-value accounts, and the initial phase uses heuristic scoring that the team plans to refine through testing.
- Lens Holiday Hackathon
Lens presents itself as a new social layer for onchain culture and communities, where one Lens Account can be used across a set of listed apps. The listed apps include Palus, a free, open-source client for Lens activity across every app; Mailens, email for the Lens ecosystem; Hey, which lets users pay to post and earn from social payments; and Lensie, an NFT marketplace and social playground. Other listed apps are Cantuum for music, Grove Drive for file storage, Soclly as a Web3 social aggregator, 0xfm as an onchain radio client for Lens Chain, and Rekt for crypto investigations and exploit coverage.
- Lens Spring Hackathon
The Lens Spring Hackathon runs from May 5 to May 20, 2025, with a prize pool of $55,000 for builders creating apps in SocialFi, finance, AI, gaming, and consumer categories. It follows a mainnet launch and a December Holiday Hackathon that the organizers say drew 40+ projects. Lens prizes include 20,000 $GHO for first place, 10,000 $GHO for second, and 5,000 $GHO each for third and fourth, while Bonsai tracks award $2,000 and $500 in BONSAI for each of two categories. Entries must build on Lens Protocol with at least one Social Primitive, deploy smart contracts on Lens Chain, and be submitted with a README, open-source code, and a demo through Alchemy University by May 20 at 4:00 PM CET.
- Lens
The Lens website presents Lens as a new social layer for onchain culture and communities, where one Lens Account can be used across several apps. The listed apps include Palus, a free, open-source tool for Lens activity across every app, and Mailens, email for the Lens ecosystem. Others are Hey, which lets users pay to post and earn from social payments, Lensie, an NFT marketplace, and Cantuum, a music client. The page says Lens is part of MaskDAO, which is building onchain products.
- Lens Storage Nodes: A Deep Dive
- Lens mainnet main site
Lens describes itself as a new social layer for onchain culture and communities, where one Lens Account works across several third-party apps. The listed apps include Palus, a free open-source client for Lens activity; Mailens, email for the Lens ecosystem; Hey, which lets users pay to post and earn from social payments; Lensie, an NFT marketplace; and Cantuum, a music client. Other listed apps are Grove Drive for file storage, Soclly as a Web3 social aggregator, 0xfm as an onchain radio client for Lens Chain, and Rekt for crypto investigations and exploit coverage. Lens is part of MaskDAO.
- Build SocialFi Apps Faster with Lens, Now on Mainnet
Lens is now live on mainnet as a platform for building SocialFi apps, offering social primitives, a storage layer, and a developer dashboard. Lens Chain uses ZKsync validiums and Avail for data availability, with GHO stablecoin as gas to keep fees predictable. Grove provides user-owned storage with onchain permissions, and the Developer Dashboard supports sponsorships to cover user fees and phone or email logins through Family with no seed phrases required.
- GHO: Stablecoin as Gas on Lens Chain
- Lens Protocol Documentation
Lens Protocol presents itself as a social layer for onchain culture and communities, where one Lens Account works across a set of apps. The listed apps include Palus, which offers free, open-source Lens activity across every app; Hey, which lets users pay to post and earn from social payments; and Mailens, which provides email for the Lens ecosystem. Other listed apps include Lensie, an NFT marketplace; Cantuum, a music client; Grove Drive, for file storage; and 0xfm, an onchain radio client for Lens Chain. Lens is described as part of MaskDAO.
- Open Actions (Frames of Lens Protocol)
Lens, a social layer for onchain culture and communities, lets users take one Lens Account to a set of third-party apps. Listed apps include Palus, a free, open-source client for Lens activity across every app; Mailens, email for the Lens ecosystem; Hey, for paid posting and social payments; and Lensie, an NFT marketplace. Others named are Cantuum for music, Grove Drive for file storage, Soclly as a Web3 social aggregator, 0xfm as an onchain radio client for Lens Chain, and Rekt for crypto investigations. Lens is part of MaskDAO.