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Avara Launches Lens Chain Mainnet for Decentralized Social Media Development

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Avara, the parent company of Aave, has launched the Lens Chain mainnet, an Ethereum overlay blockchain aimed at decentralized social media applications.

  • Lens Chain offers a fast and low-cost environment for developers.
  • Avara CEO Stani Kulechov emphasizes the need for a developer-friendly layer 2 protocol to enhance decentralized "SocialFi".
  • The platform utilizes mathematical proofs for verifying off-chain transactions.
  • It features its own stablecoin, GHO, for gas fees and decentralized data storage.
  • Application building blocks include composable social graphs and token-gated communities.
  • Partnerships with DeFi projects like Uniswap, Balancer, and Chainlink have been established.