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About 11 months after its initial announcement, the mainnet of Lens Chain goes live today with its V3 deployment.
Lens Protocol launched in February 2022 on the Polygon sidechain.
In May 2024, Lens announced that it was migrating off Polygon to its own L2 chain built within the zkSync Elastic Network. For the deal, Lens was reportedly paid 0.5% of the total ZK token supply (worth about $6.5M today).
The shift to its own L2, however, was motivated primarily by costs and scalability.
Building Lens on the Polygon sidechain made sense in 2021, but once L2s were available, they provided…
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