Last week we opened Linea’s testnet to the public. In the first week alone, we’ve seen 2.7M transactions, 354,000 unique wallet addresses, 75k deployed contracts, and 26k followers. We’re very proud of all the interest from our community.Linea stats as of April 4, 2023Our first “hello world” blog post quickly minted out, so we created an open-edition commemorative NFT to celebrate Linea’s public testnet launch, and our broader excitement for zkEVM spring and the brilliant teams at Polygon, Sc...

Last week we opened Linea’s testnet to the public. In the first week alone, we’ve seen 2.7M transactions, 354,000 unique wallet addresses, 75k deployed contracts, and 26k followers. We’re very proud of all the interest from our community.Linea stats as of April 4, 2023Our first “hello world” blog post quickly minted out, so we created an open-edition commemorative NFT to celebrate Linea’s public testnet launch, and our broader excitement for zkEVM spring and the brilliant teams at Polygon, Sc...

Today, we’re excited to announce the testnet launch of Base, an Ethereum Layer 2 (L2) network offering a secure, low-cost, developer-friendly way for anyone, anywhere, to build decentralized apps onchain. Our goal with Base is to make onchain the next online and onboard one billion users into the cryptoeconomy. In pursuit of this goal, Base will serve as both a home for Coinbase’s onchain products and an open ecosystem where anyone can build. We’re incubating Base inside of Coinbase, leveragi...

Today, we’re excited to announce the testnet launch of Base, an Ethereum Layer 2 (L2) network offering a secure, low-cost, developer-friendly way for anyone, anywhere, to build decentralized apps onchain. Our goal with Base is to make onchain the next online and onboard one billion users into the cryptoeconomy. In pursuit of this goal, Base will serve as both a home for Coinbase’s onchain products and an open ecosystem where anyone can build. We’re incubating Base inside of Coinbase, leveragi...

We recently launched Base, a secure, low-cost, developer friendly Ethereum L2. Our vision is to collectively work towards an ambitious goal: bringing the next billion users onchain. One of our values from the beginning has been “Base is for everyone” and we’re so grateful to see builders around the world starting to make Base their home. Alongside the announcement of Base, we also announced the Base Ecosystem Fund – a pool of capital to invest in early stage (pre-seed to seed) projects buildi...

We recently launched Base, a secure, low-cost, developer friendly Ethereum L2. Our vision is to collectively work towards an ambitious goal: bringing the next billion users onchain. One of our values from the beginning has been “Base is for everyone” and we’re so grateful to see builders around the world starting to make Base their home. Alongside the announcement of Base, we also announced the Base Ecosystem Fund – a pool of capital to invest in early stage (pre-seed to seed) projects buildi...

Hey, I’m Emily, developer advocate for Linea, and I’m taking over the blog today! It was incredibly exciting getting to host the first ever community call on April 4, exactly one week after the launch of our public testnet. With over 6,000 live attendees from across the globe, the turnout was amazing! If you weren’t able to attend live, here’s a brief rundown of all the alpha, learnings, and insights provided by our guests. Declan Fox, Senior Product Manager, LineaWhat is Linea?Linea is an EV...

Hey, I’m Emily, developer advocate for Linea, and I’m taking over the blog today! It was incredibly exciting getting to host the first ever community call on April 4, exactly one week after the launch of our public testnet. With over 6,000 live attendees from across the globe, the turnout was amazing! If you weren’t able to attend live, here’s a brief rundown of all the alpha, learnings, and insights provided by our guests. Declan Fox, Senior Product Manager, LineaWhat is Linea?Linea is an EV...

Linea represents the next evolution of ConsenSys zkEVM, powering a new generation of dapps built on Ethereum. This morning we opened the doors of our testnet to any developer, user, or protocol, inviting the web3 community to join us in helping Ethereum scale. To mark the moment, we are thrilled to announce that ConsenSys zkEVM is now Linea, an innovative Layer 2 (L2) on which new decentralized applications (dapps) will be built by developers and made easily accessible in MetaMask. Linea will...

Linea represents the next evolution of ConsenSys zkEVM, powering a new generation of dapps built on Ethereum. This morning we opened the doors of our testnet to any developer, user, or protocol, inviting the web3 community to join us in helping Ethereum scale. To mark the moment, we are thrilled to announce that ConsenSys zkEVM is now Linea, an innovative Layer 2 (L2) on which new decentralized applications (dapps) will be built by developers and made easily accessible in MetaMask. Linea will...

TL;DR: Base Builder Quest, the first onchain challenge on Base, is now live! Deploy a smart contract on Base to earn a non-transferable, commemorative NFT on Base testnet, designed by Andre Oshea, a digital artist who makes art for those building the future. Last month, we launched Base testnet to empower builders everywhere. Base is an Ethereum L2 that offers developers an easy, secure way to build dapps for the next billion onchain users. We’re working towards something big – bringing the n...

TL;DR: Base Builder Quest, the first onchain challenge on Base, is now live! Deploy a smart contract on Base to earn a non-transferable, commemorative NFT on Base testnet, designed by Andre Oshea, a digital artist who makes art for those building the future. Last month, we launched Base testnet to empower builders everywhere. Base is an Ethereum L2 that offers developers an easy, secure way to build dapps for the next billion onchain users. We’re working towards something big – bringing the n...

Tl;DR We believe that decentralization is critical to an open cryptoeconomy. That’s why we will be deploying Base as the second L2 on the open-source OP Stack, following Optimism Mainnet, and joining as the second core developer of the OP Stack to accelerate that decentralized future. We’re excited to collaborate with OP Labs and the Optimism Collective to build on our shared vision for scaling Ethereum via a robust, interoperable web3 ecosystem that can onboard the next billion users into we...

Tl;DR We believe that decentralization is critical to an open cryptoeconomy. That’s why we will be deploying Base as the second L2 on the open-source OP Stack, following Optimism Mainnet, and joining as the second core developer of the OP Stack to accelerate that decentralized future. We’re excited to collaborate with OP Labs and the Optimism Collective to build on our shared vision for scaling Ethereum via a robust, interoperable web3 ecosystem that can onboard the next billion users into we...

Rewarding positive impact while fueling ecosystem growth Retroactive Public Goods Funding is the engine that drives the growth of the Optimism ecosystem. With the knowledge and data afforded by hindsight, RetroPGF aims to effectively allocate capital to the builders whose efforts have provided public good to the Collective. By investing in the projects and people that have created positive impact, the Collective is supercharging the tooling, education, infrastructure, utilities, and open sour...

Rewarding positive impact while fueling ecosystem growth Retroactive Public Goods Funding is the engine that drives the growth of the Optimism ecosystem. With the knowledge and data afforded by hindsight, RetroPGF aims to effectively allocate capital to the builders whose efforts have provided public good to the Collective. By investing in the projects and people that have created positive impact, the Collective is supercharging the tooling, education, infrastructure, utilities, and open sour...

Welcome to the debut of Base Beat - your fun-sized update on the Base community. Here’s what you need to know this week: The Latest News from BaseThe first Base testnet hardfork is coming up. The Regolith upgrade is taking place on April 27th at 10 am PT. It is a planned upgrade to enhance the network’s security and reliability. 📡 Node operators will need to upgrade to Base node V0.1.1. We don’t expect any downtime or impact on the user experience. You can track the status of the upgrade on ...

Welcome to the debut of Base Beat - your fun-sized update on the Base community. Here’s what you need to know this week: The Latest News from BaseThe first Base testnet hardfork is coming up. The Regolith upgrade is taking place on April 27th at 10 am PT. It is a planned upgrade to enhance the network’s security and reliability. 📡 Node operators will need to upgrade to Base node V0.1.1. We don’t expect any downtime or impact on the user experience. You can track the status of the upgrade on ...

An Inconvenient TruthOptimism was built to empower humanity through decentralized blockchain technology that enables unprecedented coordination of human intelligence across the globe, at scale. And there is a lot to celebrate: by our estimation, over the past two years, OP Mainnet has cumulatively saved users $2.69 billion in fees, 15.8 years of waiting for transaction confirmations, and currently secures $2.8 billion in onchain value. But the reality is: nobody has truly scaled Ethereum. Tha...

An Inconvenient TruthOptimism was built to empower humanity through decentralized blockchain technology that enables unprecedented coordination of human intelligence across the globe, at scale. And there is a lot to celebrate: by our estimation, over the past two years, OP Mainnet has cumulatively saved users $2.69 billion in fees, 15.8 years of waiting for transaction confirmations, and currently secures $2.8 billion in onchain value. But the reality is: nobody has truly scaled Ethereum. Tha...