On-chain social network infrastructure Lens is getting a new home.

The new Lens Network will build upon the work of the original Lens Protocol as one of zkSync’s ZK Stack hyperchains.

Lens Lab develops the protocol under the umbrella of Avara, which also built DeFi giant Aave.

But Avara CEO Stani Kulechov told Blockworks that the non-financial use cases of crypto — citing identity and online social interactions — have the potential to be even bigger.

“The way I think about finance and social [spaces] is that there are a lot of people who have financial capital, but everyone on the planet has social capital — the content we create, the relationships we create and the identities…

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