Aave first acquisition, meta-universe chain You Sonar and special?

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Original title: Aave Acquisition: Sonar, a new member of Lens Universe

Original article by Karen, Foresight News

On the evening of December 5, Aave Companies, the developer behind Aave and social graph Protocol Lens Protocol, announced the acquisition of SAN Francisco-based startup Sonar, Sonar Developed a social mobile metaverse game project where players can create and decorate Spaces and join Spaces created by others, and meet friends using emoji, text and voice.

While the terms of the deal have yet to be disclosed, Sonar's two co-founders and several other key team members will join the Lens team to focus on building social applications for mobile consumers powered by Lens, as well as other Web3 consumer applications to be launched in 2023.

Background of Sonar Project

Sonar is a social focused gaming meta-universe mobile app that launched in 2020 at Silicon Valley incubator Y-Combinator's Summer Cohort 2020. Sonar claims its games have 20,000 live months.

Sonar was founded by brothers Ben South Lee and Randolph Lee. Sonar's co-founder Ben South Lee previously worked as a product designer at Medium in 2015, Following that, he teamed up with anonymous social app Secret founder David Byttow to launch Bold, a blog publishing tool that was acquired by on-demand delivery company Postmates. Ben South Lee will be senior vice President of product and design at Aave. Prior to founding Sonar, Randolph Lee was an iOS engineer at Facebook and will be a lead engineer at Aave.

What is Sonar?

Sonar not only supports logging in with an Apple account or phone number, but also allows you to log in with MetaMask, Rainbow or Trust Wallet, with the option to sync contacts to discover friends, or skip it.

In the Sonar application, users can create themed Spaces and move in and out of multiple Spaces in real time to listen to music, play games and talk to friends. At the same time, they can interact with space members with sound emojis or image emojis, which can also be designed and created on their own in Sonar.

Of course, the use of Emoji is not just for interaction. Sonar space creators can also create different atmospheres with Emoji, such as holiday themes, music and game themes, or open it up to space users to edit themselves.

Notably, users can also manually move their avatars around the space, moving through Spaces not yet occupied by Emoji to talk to other members.

Sonar has also previously released a series of 3D Avatars called "Sonar Moji" NFT. According to Sonar's website, the Beta version of Sonar, which was previously released only for use by Moji holders, is now available to everyone.

Following its acquisition by Lens, Sonar plans to integrate Lens Protocol. In addition, existing Sonar users and Moji holders can create their Lens Profile on claim.lens.xyz within the next 14 days.

The acquisition, Aave's first, is designed to accelerate Aave's social media and mobile application strategy by driving the adoption of Lens, its social graph infrastructure, and building social applications for mobile consumers powered by Lens.