Lens is an onchain SocialFi and decentralized social infrastructure project based in Japan that describes itself as a new social layer for onchain culture and communities. The project was founded by Stani Kulechov. Lens's TwitterScore is 457 out of 1000, with a rank of #445.

Lens is a high-performance blockchain stack built for SocialFi, composed of Lens Chain, Social Protocol, and Storage Nodes. Lens Chain is a Layer 2 leveraging ZKsync, Avail, and Ethereum security, with account abstraction, USD gas fees, and email or phone onboarding. It went live on mainnet on April 4, 2025, and uses the GHO stablecoin as its gas token. Lens has accumulated 453,568 followers and 5,854 posts on the platform.

On December 18, 2024, Lens announced a $31 million strategic round led by Lightspeed Faction, with additional backing from Avail, Circle, Consensys, DFG, Fabric Ventures, Foresight Ventures, Superscript, Re7, and Wintermute Ventures. Lens was formerly affiliated with Avara and is affiliated with Mask Network and MaskDAO. On January 20, 2026, Lens announced that Mask Network would steward the next chapter of the project. Lens migrated from Lens V2 on Polygon to Lens V3 on Lens Chain, and Lens Protocol v2 is no longer actively supported by new development.

Lens is mentioned by 179 accounts across 395 mentions on the platform.

Smart Followers

The accounts that follow Lens include 1,615 founders, 366 angel investors, 1,205 influencers and 99 VCs, among them Chris Dixon, Toly, Laura Shin, 6529, Stani and Chris Burniske.