Glossary
Lens Protocol
Aave's decentralized social-graph protocol — profiles, follows, and posts as on-chain NFTs/ERC-6551 accounts, with Lens v3 launching its own Lens Network L2 in 2024.
Lens Protocol launched in 2022 on Polygon as Aave Companies' bet on decentralized social graphs. Each profile is an NFT; follows are NFTs; posts can be monetized via collect modules. Several social clients (Hey, Orb, T2) all read from the same Lens graph.
Lens v3 launched in 2024 alongside the Lens Network — its own Layer-2 (a Polygon CDK chain with native account abstraction). The migration moves the graph onto an app-specific chain better suited to the read/write volume of consumer social.