The group behind Lens, a Web3 social media protocol, has introduced the launch of a brand new “layer 3” community to scale blockchain social media apps. Referred to as “Bonzai,” the brand new community processes and shops posts, feedback and shares, taking this information off the Polygon community and thereby growing scalability for Lens, in accordance to an April 26 announcement considered by Cointelegraph.
Introducing Bonsai, an Optimistic L3 scaling resolution, that may course of transactions at hyperscale, and is designed to help the following technology of web3 social customers.
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Lens is a blockchain protocol that permits customers to kind a conveyable “social graph,” or digital set of connections, between themselves and others. When customers kind a reference to one other individual on one Lens app, they will switch these connections to another 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 group acknowledged that the Polygon community can’t deal with the transaction quantity or data-storage wants of large-scale social media apps, making it vital for a brand new “optimistic L3 hyperscaling information resolution” to be launched. In accordance to the doc, shared blockchain networks can solely deal with up to 200 transactions per second (TPS), whereas the earlier incarnation of Lens may solely deal with 40 to 50 TPS. Against this, it acknowledged that Twitter typically does 25,000 TPS throughout peak intervals.
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The group anticipated this limitation may stop the protocol from scaling as its consumer base grew. To resolve this downside, Bonzai 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 recordsdata whereas storing verification information about them.
In accordance to the technical paper, the Bonzai community consists of three sorts of nodes: submitters, verifiers and timestamps. Submitters validate transactions, construct metadata and submit them to Bundlr. Verifiers monitor the info submitted by submitters and make sure that it’s legitimate. And timestamps decide the correct block quantity and timestamp for a selected piece of knowledge.
The paper states that this technique ought to “[provide] customers the expertise (instant 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 vital step towards spurring mass adoption of Web3 social apps:
“To be aggressive with web2, decentralized social should scale. With the power to help mass client adoption, we’ll see continued web3 innovation – new, thrilling and compelling options and enterprise fashions that may spur web3 adoption.”
A number of firms lately have created decentralized social media protocols, together with Lens, Subsocial, DeSo and others. Builders hope these apps will assist broaden the enchantment 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 consider decentralized social media will be the next big thing in crypto.
