# Lens

> Build SocialFi with Lens

Lens is a Layer 2 blockchain stack for SocialFi applications, combining onchain social primitives, fast settlement, and decentralized storage.

Lens helps developers building social and financial applications deploy onchain social features including portable accounts, customizable content feeds, follow graphs, and group memberships. Each primitive supports configurable Rules and Actions for access control and monetization. Lens Chain uses GHO as its native gas token, enabling stable transaction costs and account abstraction for gasless user onboarding.

- Type: Protocol
- Sector: Blockchain Platforms
- Status: Active
- Founded: 2021-01-01
- Profile: https://thegrid.id/profiles/lens

## Products

- [Lens Chain](https://thegrid.id/profiles/lens): Lens Chain is a Layer 2 network built on ZKsync's ZK Stack with Avail for data availability, secured by Ethereum. It uses GHO as the native gas token, with account abstraction providing gasless and signless transactions. The architecture supports three deployment phases: Validium (Seed), DA-enabled (Grow), and Volition (Bloom), enabling configurable security trade-offs across social and financial transaction types. Chain ID is 232 with a public RPC at rpc.lens.xyz. (L2, Live, Main Product)
- [Lens Social Protocol](https://thegrid.id/profiles/lens): Lens Social Protocol provides modular onchain smart contract primitives for SocialFi application development on Lens Chain. The protocol includes Accounts, Usernames, Graphs, Feeds, and Groups, each deployable as shared global instances or app-specific configurations. Rules and Actions extend primitive behavior for access control, token gating, and monetization. A Developer Dashboard and Sponsorship system enable gasless user onboarding and application transaction management. (Social Infrastructure, Live)
- [Grove](https://thegrid.id/profiles/lens): Grove is an onchain-controlled storage layer built in Rust, positioned between IPFS nodes and EVM blockchain nodes. Access to stored content is enforced by ACL contracts on any EVM-compatible chain, allowing content owners to define modification permissions through smart contract calls. Grove supports upload, edit, delete, and retrieval operations and is available on Lens Chain, Ethereum, ZKsync, Base, Abstract, and Sophon. Grove was formerly known as Lens Storage Nodes. (Decentralized File Storage, Live)
- [Lens Bridge](https://thegrid.id/profiles/lens): Lens Bridge enables asset transfers between Lens Chain and other EVM-compatible networks using the Across Protocol integration. The Across SpokePool contract deployed on Lens Chain facilitates GHO and token bridging to and from the Lens Chain ecosystem. (Bridge, Live)

## Links

- [Main](https://lens.xyz)
- [Terms of Service](https://lens.xyz/terms)
- [Privacy policy](https://lens.xyz/privacy)
- [Blog](https://lens.xyz/news)
- [Documentation](https://lens.xyz/docs/chain/overview)
- [Twitter / X](https://x.com/LensProtocol)
- [Twitter / X](https://x.com/LC)
- [GitHub](https://github.com/lens-protocol)

## Relationships

- [Aave](https://thegrid.id/profiles/aave): Parent organization

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