Lens is a decentralized social infrastructure project that provides a high-performance blockchain stack built for SocialFi, composed of Lens Chain, Social Protocol, and Storage Nodes. Lens's Twitter Score is 449 out of 1000 (an Excellent rating) as of August 2026, ranking #436 (top 0.1%) among 483,944 tracked accounts.
Lens was founded by Stani Kulechov and was previously affiliated with Avara. In January 2026, Lens announced that Mask Network and MaskDAO would steward the next chapter of the project. Lens launched on mainnet on April 4, 2025, bringing together Lens Chain, Social Protocol, Grove, and a Developer Dashboard.
Lens migrated from Lens V2 on Polygon to Lens V3 on Lens Chain, moving 125GB of data, 650,000 user accounts, and 28 million follower connections in the process. Lens Chain is a Layer 2 built on ZKsync, secured by Ethereum and Avail, and features account abstraction, USD-denominated gas fees paid in the GHO stablecoin, and email or phone onboarding. On December 18, 2024, Lens announced a $31 million strategic round led by Lightspeed Faction, with participation from Avail, Circle, Consensys, Fabric Ventures, Foresight Ventures, DFG, Superscript, Re7, and Wintermute Ventures.
Lens has published 5,951 posts on the platform. Lens has been mentioned by 188 accounts, with 412 total mentions.
Who follows Lens on X?
The accounts that follow Lens include 1,895 founders, 492 angel investors, 826 influencers and 58 VCs, among them Chris Dixon, Toly, Laura Shin, Stani, Chris Burniske and Fred Ehrsam.