As of last week, Lens – the decentralized social protocol by Avara – is permissionless. Anyone can make a profile. From Avara CEO: “In our first few years, we chose to remain in beta while we enhanced security and scalability and nurtured a vibrant developer ecosystem. We took a protocol-first approach and supported over 400 community-built applications. Some of these were fully open source with as many as 100 contributors.” Just six months after launching in beta, over 100,000 users were engaging with apps across Lens. The community created over 37M onchain social transactions, including 5M posts, 4.5M mirrors, 2.2M comments, and 11M follows. to the Lens team! We’re excited to see how the future of web3 social plays out, with competition from Farcaster and others.