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The staff behind Lens, a Web3 social media protocol, has introduced the launch of a brand new “layer 3” community to scale blockchain social media apps. Known as “Bonzai,” the brand new community processes and shops posts, feedback, and shares, taking this knowledge off the Polygon community and thereby rising scalability for Lens, in line with an April 26 announcement seen by Cointelegraph.
Introducing Bonsai, an Optimistic L3 scaling answer, that may course of transactions at hyperscale, and is designed to assist the following technology of web3 social customers.
Out there for Lens devs in closed beta at this time. pic.twitter.com/AaqfikZWxT
— Lens Protocol (@LensProtocol) April 26, 2023
Lens is a blockchain protocol that enables customers to kind a conveyable “social graph” or digital set of connections between themselves and others. When a consumer varieties a reference to one other particular person on one Lens app, they’ll switch these connections to some other app constructed on the protocol. There are 17 completely different Lens-based social media apps listed on the protocol’s official web site, together with Buttrfly, DumplingTV, Lenster, Lenstube, and others.
Lens runs on the Polygon community, a layer 2 of Ethereum.
In a technical doc linked to within the announcement, the Lens staff said that the Polygon community can’t deal with the transaction quantity or knowledge storage wants of large-scale social media apps, making it mandatory for a brand new “optimistic L3 hyperscaling knowledge answer” to be launched. Based on the doc, shared blockchain networks can solely deal with as much as 200 transactions per second (TPS), whereas the earlier incarnation of Lens might solely deal with 40 to 50 TPS. Against this, it said that Twitter typically does 25,000 TPS throughout peak durations.
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The staff anticipated this limitation might stop the protocol from scaling as its consumer base grows. To resolve this drawback, Bonzai has launched as a layer 2 of Polygon itself, or an “L3” of the Ethereum community. Bonzai makes use of Bundlr, a decentralized storage platform constructed on Arweave, to retailer massive information whereas storing verification knowledge about them.
Based on the technical paper, the Bonzai community consists of three forms of nodes: Submitters, Verifiers, and Timestamps. Submitters validate transactions, construct metadata, and submit them to Bundler. Verifiers monitor the info submitted by Submitters and make sure that it’s legitimate. And Timestamps decide what the correct block quantity and timestamp are for a specific piece of information.
The paper states that this technique ought to “[provide] shoppers the expertise (on the spot posts, and many others.) they’ve come to anticipate from social networks.”
Stani Kulechov, the founding father of Lens Protocol, believes Bonzai might be an essential step towards spurring mass adoption of Web3 social apps:
“To be aggressive with web2, decentralized social should scale. With the power to assist mass shopper adoption, we’ll see continued web3 innovation – new, thrilling and compelling options and enterprise fashions that may spur web3 adoption.”
A number of firms in recent times have created decentralized social media protocols, together with Lens, Subsocial, DeSo, and others. Builders hope these apps will assist broaden the attraction of blockchain networks past the monetary world. Whereas none of them have attained the success of Fb, Twitter, YouTube, and different Web2 social apps, some blockchain specialists imagine decentralized social media would be the subsequent massive factor in crypto.
