Decentralized Finance (DeFi) on Ethereum can be powerful—but it can also be slow, expensive, and frustrating. As the popularity of Ethereum has risen, the network has struggled to keep up. Users new to DeFi are often surprised to find themselves paying $10 in gas fees—and waiting 30 minutes— when simply moving $5 in tokens. That is why layer 2s (L2s) were created. L2s are a layer on top of Ethereum; they are fast and cheap, but still leverage the decentralization and security of the Ethereum ...

Linea’s DeFi Voyage will bring everyone—from web3 newcomers to seasoned investors—an intuitive, immersive, and educational DeFi experience. We are teaming up with Intract and MetaMask Learn to deliver a six-week Voyage that will cover all sectors of DeFi.What is Linea’s DeFi Voyage?The Linea DeFi Voyage is designed to give all levels of web3 users an opportunity to explore one of the most fundamental web3 use cases, decentralized finance (DeFi), in an intuitive, immersive, and educational man...

Linea Safe is a key player within web3’s trust and security space. It is a fork of the Safe project, supported on Linea Goerli and Linea mainnet. In the ever-evolving realm of blockchain and web3, the significance of secure multi-signature wallets cannot be emphasized enough. These wallets serve as the fundamental building blocks of trust and security within the decentralized landscape. In this blog post, we delve into the vital role that multi-signature wallets play in the web3 ecosystem and...

Access to high-quality, decentralized and reliable market data will allow developers to build a variety of applications on Linea. Linea is excited to announce that Chainlink Data Feeds, a decentralized data solution for decentralized finance (DeFi) and beyond, are now live on the Layer 2 network. Developers can now build highly secure applications on Linea using decentralized, hyper-reliable market data, as well as other data types. This will help more users access a feature-rich application ...

The Linea Voyage encompasses the journey of the Linea zkEVM ecosystem from testnet, to mainnet launch, to the first Voyage destination: The decentralization of the network.From Ideation to DecentralizationThe Linea network began back in 2019 as a response to Ethereum’s scalability problem. What followed was the release of our zkEVM specification at DevCon 6 in Fall 2022, the launch of our highly successful private testnet in January 2023, and the launch of Linea’s mainnet alpha in July. Since...

Tomo is a user-centric platform that merges social media with decentralized finance and enables direct interaction with users’ favorite creators. One of the key reasons for the high levels of engagement from our users on Linea is our robust partner ecosystem. No matter the web3 use case – decentralized finance, security, identity, or social – you will find a decentralized application or a protocol to explore on Linea. Today, we would like to introduce you to Tomo, an app that brings together ...

Discover zero-knowledge proofs and ZoKrates. Learn their role in enhancing smart contract security, how ZoKrates aids their integration in decentralized apps, their functionality, types, and uses. The vision of blockchain technology has always been a world where transactions are completely private and secure, while also being executed at lightning speed. Unfortunately, achieving this utopia has always come at the cost of scalability and privacy. Zero-knowledge proofs (ZKPs) are a revolutionar...

The social and gaming extravaganza saw an overwhelming participation from over 850,000 users, across 4.9M quests. Gm, We are now coming to you from a post-Linea Entertainment Festival world. The month-long social and gaming extravaganza ended on October 10, 2023 and gave us many exciting moments to recount. Apart from being a great collaborative effort between DeGame, Particle Network, MyShell, P12, and Linea, the festival also saw 30 innovative web3 gaming projects come together to create an...

A retroactive overview of Linea’s biggest upgrade to date. As we prepare for the next major upgrade to Linea’s L2 network (Alpha v2), it is important to document—especially to foster transparency with the community—to document previous milestones in Linea’s development roadmap. In this post we provide an overview of the Alpha v.0.2.0 upgrade—Linea’s last major upgrade before launching on mainnet—and highlight the rationale for certain changes implemented in the upgrade. The information provid...

Verax is not an EIP, a protocol, or a product, but a simple primitive that can be used by any dapps and protocols as a shared “data lake” of public data. When it comes to the value of on-chain attestations, we have come full circle. On-chain attestations for identity and reputation was one of the first, and foundational, use cases that got people excited about blockchain technology. The exploration of use cases around on-chain attestations has come a long way from its early days. Here is a gr...

The Voyage XPs are non-transferrable SBTs that will be distributed to recognize the community’s extraordinary contribution toward the growth of the Linea ecosystem. From the early days of Linea’s development, community has been at the heart of the network. From demonstrating early support for the private testnet, to stress-testing and providing feedback, to navigating the world of decentralized finance (DeFi), creating human connections, and participating in quests, our community has shown un...

We chat with P12 on the importance of UGC, differences in UGC in web2 and web3, Linea’s contribution to promoting online gaming in web3, and the future of web3 and gaming. User-generated content (UGC) in gaming is a revolutionary concept since it transforms players from passive consumers into active creators of the gaming worlds they inhabit. By allowing players to create quests, invent new characters, and make new levels in a game, UGC gives them control and ownership, which thus far has bee...