GetBlock Adds Lens RPC Support for SocialFi

GetBlock announces its expanding support of SocialFi services infrastructure by adding the Lens Protocol RPC endpoints, which are already accessible from user dashboards. Web3 innovators who develop user-based social applications can now rely on highly customizable GetBlock infrastructure with 99.99% average uptime.

TL;DR

Developers can connect to their GetBlock account and access various Lens RPC connection options:

Shared nodes with JSON-RPC and WebSocket connections
Dedicated nodes with full customization for project scaling
Enterprise infrastructure with first-class support and on-premise pricing
Customizable server locations for dedicated nodes

Lens offers a variety of features for Web3 social app development, and all of them can be accessed for a price starting from $39/month.

What is Lens Protocol: A blockchain for social applications

Lens Protocol is an EVM L2 that serves as a Web3 social “building layer” designed around a single, composable social graph that is utilized by various apps. Developers can build social dApps without recreating identities, follower lists, and content relationships from scratch. Its core primitives are implemented as tokenized objects (Profile NFTs), so user-owned social data can be reused across multiple apps.

For developers, Lens offers several unique features that include:

Composable social graph for securing relationships between users
Modular architecture for customizing different social dApp logic
Onchain content monetization, where readers can collect publications as NFTs
Social connections are tokenized and preserved as NFTs, too

As GetBlock adds support for Lens RPC nodes, the platform's CEO, Vasily Rudomanov, explains why this launch is a major milestone for SocialFi:

Lens is the most mature and feature-rich decentralized social media experiment. Under new leadership, it will undoubtedly double down on its mission of bringing content monetization back to creators. As usual, we're doing our part at GetBlock by providing reliable and cost-effective infrastructure to reduce time-to-market and infrastructure spending for businesses. Welcome to GetBlock, Lens community.

Vasily Rudomanov, CEO GetBlock

How to connect Lens RPC API using GetBlock

Enter your dashboard and click Get endpoint to set up your Lens shared endpoint, which is highly accessible and more than enough to start building your social dApps.

Select Lens, Mainnet network, and either JSON-RPC or Webhooks API interface
Copy your RPC endpoint URL (Access Token), which is saved in your dashboard
Use it in your code and services to access the blockchain and track request usage

GetBlock offers high-quality shared nodes starting from $39/month and with great scaling options, depending on the amount of compute units (CU) you need. For all users, 50,000 CUs and 2 different access tokens are available daily for free.

What’s next: Dedicated and enterprise infrastructure

Dedicated nodes run on dedicated and highly personalized servers, set up specifically for your task, so their usage is preferred for large-scale social applications that deal with thousands of requests every second. Here is how to get the dedicated Lens RPC infrastructure:

Navigate to the Dedicated Nodes section
Select Lens protocol and Mainnet network
Choose the closest region to your location: Frankfurt, New York, or Singapore
Choose node type: full or archive
Configure your plan duration, additional features, and proceed with payment

Here you go! Enjoy the dedicated infrastructure with exceptional speed and support.

For scaling even further, contact us to deploy the enterprise Lens infrastructure, which can handle every load and can be customized to interact with other blockchains and ecosystems.

Deploy Lens on GetBlock and start building your SocialFi

Lens Protocol is a specialized Ethereum L2 for social dApp building, and GetBlock is excited to add it to its collection. As traditional Web2 social services create growing concerns in privacy and censorship, the Web3 SocialFi ecosystem develops to create a new social environment, where user identities are verified by the blockchain and no central entity can restrict access or filter information.

With its modular architecture and decentralized social graph, Lens Protocol offers robust instruments for building new-generation social apps, where content is reviewed and rewarded by the community. GetBlock empowers Web3 builders with top-class Lens RPC infrastructure starting from $39/month.

Sign up now to set up your shared or dedicated RPC endpoint and start building.