ChainCatcher news, according to official sources, the decentralized social pioneer Mask Network has completed a strategic acquisition of the Lens chain's native social application Orb.club. This acquisition marks a key step for Mask Network's social ecological matrix MaskDAO in building a user-driven internet ecosystem, reshaping the value flow of the creator economy by integrating the most vibrant social layer of the Web3 era.It is reported that as the mobile social application with the largest user base on the Lens protocol, it surpassed 50,000 monthly active users in early 2025, firmly ranking first among Web3 native social applications. After joining the MaskDAO ecological matrix, Orb will form a synergistic effect with core components such as Next.ID (decentralized identity), Web3.bio (on-chain profile search), and Firefly.social (Web3 all-in-one application), collectively building a "Web3 version of Tencent" social landscape.Mask Network builds a bridge connecting Web2 and Web3 by allowing users to directly use decentralized applications, encrypted communication, and payment tools on traditional social platforms. Its ecosystem is governed by MaskDAO and includes a series of applications such as Next.ID, Web3.bio, Firefly.social, and the new member Orb.club. Through the venture capital firm Bonfire Union, Mask continues to invest in decentralized social networks and infrastructure, aiming to make Web3 technology accessible to users worldwide.

ChainCatcher news, the Lens Chain mainnet launched by Aave founder has gone live. Lens has established partnerships with several DeFi and infrastructure projects, including Uniswap, Balancer, LayerZero, Circle, Consensys, and Chainlink, aiming to unlock the economic potential of decentralized "SocialFi."

ChainCatcher news, according to a post by Lens Protocol founder Stani Kulechov on the X platform, Lens Chain is about to launch, with "Get ready chefs" hinting that developers and users should be prepared. Lens Chain is seen as a modular blockchain designed specifically for social scenarios.

ChainCatcher news, Lens Chain announced on social media that it has passed the vote to join the Elastic Network on ZKSync, and the mainnet is about to launch.

ChainCatcher News: U.S. President Trump will meet with Ukrainian President Zelensky on Friday at 11:05 AM Eastern Time (12:05 AM Beijing Time the next day) and will hold a joint press conference at 1:00 PM Eastern Time (2:00 AM Beijing Time the next day).

ChainCatcher news, Lens officially announced on the X platform that the Lens v2 version on Polygon is about to migrate to Lens Chain and upgrade to version 3. This is reportedly the largest on-chain migration for Lens to date, with the main file being a 125GB smart contract storage log, including:650,000 user accounts and their digital identities650,000 unique usernames28 million follower connections, preserving the social graph360 applications ensuring ecosystem continuity16 million user-generated content postsAfter the launch of the Lens Chain mainnet, Lens users will be able to easily use applications, interact with content, and manage accounts on the new Lens chain.

ChainCatcher news, Lens Protocol announced that it has migrated to Lens Chain. By collaborating with ZKSync, the Lens team developed a migration solution to maintain maximum data integrity. The migration successfully transferred 650,000 user accounts along with their digital identities, 28 million follower connections, social graphs, and 360 applications.

ChainCatcher message, Lens Chain tweeted that it plans to use Aave stablecoin GHO as the protocol Gas fee to ensure that transaction costs are predictable, stable, and cost-effective.

ChainCatcher message, Aave founder Stani Kulechov tweeted that the team will release innovative contracts on the modular social feature network Lens Network. This includes social (expanded information flow, groups, charts, username rules), ICO/crowdfunding, ERC20 New flavour, Novel bonding curves, new ERC721 contracts, governance, points system, and revenue plans. All content will be open source, and users can use it freely.

ChainCatcher news, Lens Protocol posted on platform X that the Lens mainnet is about to launch.

ChainCatcher news, according to TechCrunch, Avara, the development company behind Aave, Lens, and Family, has completed a $31 million financing round for the social protocol Lens, led by Lightspeed Faction, with participation from Avail, AlchemyPlatform, Circle, Consensys, DFG, Fabric Ventures, Foresight Ventures, Superscrypt, Re7Capital, Wintermute Ventures, Caliber Ventures, G-20, Blockchain Coinvestors, Borderless Capital, and Bodhi Ventures.Avara founder Stani Kulechov stated that the Lens v3 version will launch on the mainnet in the first quarter of 2025, utilizing zkSync and validiums technology to reduce transaction costs, aiming to provide infrastructure for decentralized social applications.According to the Web3 asset data platform RootData, Avara was renamed from Aave Companies and is a vibrant collective of pioneering brands in the decentralized finance and social space, including Aave, Lens, GNO, and others.

ChainCatcher news, according to the Dune dashboard, the user growth of the Web3 social network Farcaster has slowed down, with daily new users dropping from a peak of 15,000 in early February to about 650 now, comparable to Lens. Farcaster's daily active users (DAU) have decreased from a high of 100,000 in early July to 60,000, a decline of 40%. The number of posts and interactions has decreased by over 60% from their peak.

ChainCatcher news, Aave and Lens Protocol founder Stani Kulechov stated, "In light of the recent arrest of Telegram's CEO Pavel Durov, I have been reflecting on how to build a 'resilient approach' that can uphold various rights, even when these rights (such as freedom of speech and content moderation) may conflict with each other.First, when discussing resilient software, it is important to move away from the concept of 'decentralization.' 'Decentralization' is a term that can easily lead to misunderstandings, and its meaning is rarely agreed upon.Instead, the construction of social networks should focus on resilience. In fact, resilience means minimizing any potential single points of failure that could undermine or affect the functionality and integrity of the network. This concept is easier to understand and measure.For example, the most successful DeFi projects today are built this way. They do not necessarily aim to achieve a certain level of decentralization, but rather to ensure that protocols like Aave can withstand potential threats and single points of failure from various participants.A truly resilient social network is a system that is extremely difficult to penetrate or disrupt by any single entity or coalition of entities.Resilience ensures that participation in the network or protocol is safeguarded at all levels. The flow of information should be resilient against manipulation or biased censorship. Administrators should be protected from undue influence. Content should be able to resist deletion by operators and be fully controlled by its authors.Currently, blockchain technology provides a means to achieve resilience. At its core, blockchain ensures access control (who can write) and secure storage of value (assets). It can determine who can publish in the information flow, join communities, moderate content, serve as legitimate fact-checkers, and how funds are allocated within the network. Additionally, it enables a community-driven framework for selecting administrators or fact-checkers through voting mechanisms.For resilience to be effective, accountability and transparency are key. Transparent networks are more likely to ensure resilience, and if privacy is needed, guarantees like zero-knowledge proofs (ZK-proofs) can provide verifiability while ensuring transparency. Public blockchains have these features built-in.I believe that a truly resilient social network will unlock new interesting use cases, as developers will no longer have to worry about being shut down.These foundational principles will guide the development of Lens V3."

According to ChainCatcher news reported by TheBlock, Lens plans to launch its public testnet for ZKsync within the next one to two months, with the goal of migrating to the ZKsync network in the fourth quarter. Lens V3 will be launched shortly after the mainnet goes live and will feature some privacy functionalities, with the ultimate goal of providing further privacy features and offering users the option to monetize their data through AI-trained models.

ChainCatcher news, Lens Protocol is now integrated with OKX Web3 Wallet. Users can explore decentralized social interactions such as posting, commenting, and engaging through the OKX Web3 Wallet on Lens Protocol, and can create their own on-chain NFTs, with support for IPFS hosting, among other features. Lens Protocol is a composable decentralized social graph based on the Polygon network, launched by the decentralized lending protocol Aave, allowing users to create social media profiles and build new social media applications from them. It aims to reshape the concept of social media in the Web3 and decentralized era.It is reported that the OKX Web3 Wallet is an industry-leading one-stop Web3 gateway, now supporting over 95 public chains, with a unified experience across app, extension, and web, covering five major areas: wallet, DEX, DeFi, NFT marketplace, and DApp exploration, and has launched a Bitcoin inscription and rune trading market, among other features.

ChainCatcher news, Bloomberg TV's well-known host and economist Joe Weisenthal stated on social media that there has been a significant change in crypto culture over the past 5-6 years. The once idealistic discussions about blockchain democracy, universal basic income (UBI), and an open internet are now dominated by finance and meme coins.In response, Vitalik Buterin stated that many idealistic open internet projects have made significant progress, such as Farcaster, Lens, quadratic funding, retroactive funding, Zupass, privacy-preserving ETH sending methods, and ZK voting implementations.