Viewing the Balance Between Social and Finance Through Lens: Exploring a Web3 Future Without Token Issuance and Anti-Exploitation

【Blockchain Rhythm】Regarding the adjustment of the relationship between Mask and Lens, the founder of Mask recently clarified some points. First of all, this is not quite a traditional acquisition. The two parties have discussed for a long time what term to use, and ultimately defined it as “steward”—a guiding role, which sounds more appropriate.

On the Lens side, founder Stani will focus mainly on Aave’s DeFi business in the future, and will serve mainly as an advisor at Lens, no longer working full-time as before.

Returning to the product level, Lens’s future direction will be more open. In addition to existing features, plans include supporting multi-chain deployment, multi-language support, and even innovative features like prediction markets.

Interestingly, the official statement clearly indicates that Lens has no plans to issue a token for now. The underlying logic is quite clear—it’s not desirable for users to participate just for participation, nor does it encourage behaviors like trying to gain visibility for airdrops. What Lens aims to do is incentivize genuine social interactions and build a social ecosystem based on real relationships and value exchange, rather than financial games. This approach actually reflects an important consideration in the Web3 social track: how to maintain the purity of social interactions within a decentralized framework.