Tenderly Integrates Lens to Support Social Applications Onchain

Lens Network provides a fast, reliable, and high-performance environment for onchain social applications, equipped with powerful and modular onchain social features. Built using zkSync’s ZK Stack and Avail DA, Lens ensures high network scalability, efficiency, and security, enabling developers to build social applications with Web2-like experiences. Lens Network is currently available in Developer Preview (testnet). 

To enable users to connect and interact onchain, Lens focuses on solving the issues of data ownership, censorship, and monetization. It strives to remove friction and single points of failure while giving users ownership over social applications.

Lens offers essential development infrastructure and tooling to empower builders to create innovative dapps that facilitate onchain interactions. Tenderly integrated the Lens testnet, enabling you to run and scale high-performance dapps, with essential tooling for easier team collaboration.

How Lens connects users onchain

Launched by the experienced Avara team, Lens’ goal is to enable the creation of scalable social applications that will allow everyone to interact and connect onchain, in a no-fee environment on the user front. Thanks to its developer portal, the chain introduces essential features for frictionless onchain usage, including gasless onboarding, seamless data portability, and USD payments. 

Lens enables unique social functionalities thanks to Lens V3, a modular set of social features deployed on the network. Lens’ social features are customizable and easy to integrate, allowing developers to plug them into their apps as Social Legos. These features include Accounts, Usernames, Feeds, Groups, and Graphs, each designed for maximum flexibility. 

Striving to create Web2-like experiences onchain, Lens prioritizes ease of use and flexibility, giving users several important benefits: 

• Frictionless onboarding to Lens using only email addresses or phone numbers
• Seamless portability of data between dapps, enabling users to switch between applications while keeping their profiles, connections, and content 
• Ownership over social content, giving control over onchain profiles, connections, and other types of assets to users
• Connecting directly with others by leveraging apps built on Lens, building connections with fans, audiences, and collaborators  

Why Web3 builders choose Lens 

Lens strives to empower builders to innovate on the network, offering unique advantages and support to facilitate the creation of onchain social applications. 

• With its focus on consumer and social applications, Lens Network comes already equipped with social features, enabling you to build specialized dapps targeting specific use cases. With Lens’ social features, you can build dapps with great user experiences that give users more control over their content and identity than traditional Web2 applications. By using the global instances of Lens’ social features, you can benefit from the shared network effect and access the existing user base on Lens.
• The chain’s social features are powerful modular onchain Social Legos for building social applications with high levels of flexibility. Lens V3 is a collection of social features that rely on core smart contracts. Aside from integrating them as plug-and-play functionalities, you can also modify these core contracts using custom Rules, extending the initial set of features and creating unique experiences in your dapp.
• Powered by ZK and Avail DA, Lens is a custom-built chain that provides developers with high scalability, security, and efficiency, meeting the demands of high-throughput social applications.
• Lens also features high yet flexible security levels depending on the transaction type. In the first stage, Lens will leverage Validium and a DA layer.  

How to get started on Lens with Tenderly

While still in Developer Preview, Lens enables you to build and test social applications in preparation for its mainnet launch. By integrating the Lens Sepolia testnet, Tenderly gives you access to essential infrastructure components and tools for dapp development and onchain scaling on Lens.

Here’s how to use Tenderly on Lens:

1. Accelerate and optimize development workflows: Build and test on Tenderly Virtual TestNets, flexible, zero-setup development environments synced with Lens’s most recent on-chain state. Virtual TestNets allow you to create your own Lens replica and integrate it into your workflows to develop apps under realistic conditions.
2. Set up scalable production infrastructure built for high performance: Scale your dapp as its usage grows on top of Tenderly’s fast and reliable Node RPC. Run your dapp on Node RPC that can support high traffic volumes and usage spikes, ensuring uninterrupted performance on Lens. Plus, you can deploy custom logic within Tenderly Node RPC and write custom endpoints to optimize dapp performance and stability. 
3. Build excellent user experiences in your dapp with protective simulations: Integrate transaction simulations in your dapp so users can preview their expected outcomes before signing. Even run your entire dapp in simulation mode to allow users to experiment with your dapp in a risk-free environment. 
4. Explore and interact with Lens’ onchain data within team projects: Add relevant contracts to Tenderly, verifying them through ABI or importing directly from the public Lens explorer. Name and label your contracts so your team can easily explore relevant data. Focus on transactions relevant to your project, sharing them across teams for easier collaboration.
5. Set up real-time alerts to receive notifications for a list of supported onchain events, such as ERC20 transfers on Lens. Connect alerts with Web3 Actions and execute custom code as an instant response once specified onchain conditions are met, addressing potential issues or monitoring the onchain usage of your dapp. 

Build onchain connections on Lens with Tenderly

Enabling frictionless social interactions onchain, Lens is uniquely positioned to bring blockchain technology closer to everyday users. With unique social features combined with a high-performance execution environment, Lens Network allows for the creation of innovative social applications while equipping developers with essential tools and infrastructure. 

With Tenderly’s support, you and your team have a reliable infrastructure with built-in tooling to run production-grade dapps on Lens. Spin a fast and reliable Node RPC for Lens to get started.