Lens Protocol Integration

Updated: 17-Jul-2024

Phaver is the largest mobile app on the Lens Protocol, the Web3 social graph developed by the industry-leading team at Aave. The protocol enables our users to connect their Phaver and Lens profiles which essentially creates an on-chain backup of everything happening on Phaver and unlocks reach across the entire Lens-verse of dApps.

Lens Protocol uses NFTs for creating on-chain relationships between profiles, followers and posts as a back-end mechanism. This means users own their social graph and can use it interoperably with any Lens app.

Unlike many other Lens dApps, Phaver is not a pure-play Lens client where all the actions reflect on Lens alone, but it is rather a multiprotocol ecosystem. Phaver profiles are used as an easier step to start your journey into Web3. This means being able to follow Lens users off-chain and see their content even without a wallet. By connecting a Lens profile, however, users supercharge the experience by unlocking commenting, collecting and many on-chain actions like posting and following on the Lens network.

When a Lens user makes a post in Phaver they can decide whether they want to broadcast it on-chain to Lens or just post on Phaver. Lens posts reach an audience outside of Phaver in all other Lens apps. Additionally, the Lens posts reside on-chain, and are immutable, while Phaver posts allow for edits and deletion. In both cases the user earns point rewards for the Phaves their post receives on Phaver. Similarly, any posts made on other Lens clients appear in Phaver and accumulate points, if the accounts have been linked on Phaver.

Phaver profiles show both the Phaver & Lens usernames. Users can opt in & out of the on-chain Lens posting depending on their needs.

Core features of Lens supported by Phaver include:

• Profiles are the core entity mapping posts, followers, and who you follow. The profile includes metadata such as username/handle and profile pic. These are all stored and authenticated with a wallet using Polygon network.

• Follows also utilize NFTs as the underlying solution, so when a user follows another profile, their own wallet gains a numbered Follow NFT. A profile can also restrict who can follow them and e.g. include a token fee (token fees are not currently supported on Phaver as an iOS app).

• Posts are created by a profile and attached to the on-chain graph

Lens Protocol v2 and Migration to zkSync

Lens v2 was launched in Q4-2023 as the protocol also became permissionless, allowing anyone to mint profiles. Further, Lens is transitioning in 2024 from Polygon to zkSync. Phaver works closely with Lens and onboarding users and creators to the ecosystem. Any Phaver L2 user can free-mint a Lens profile, which would otherwise have a minting fee.