The Linea Voyage is nearing its end and we are now on to Week 8. In this week, which will also mark the final week of on-chain activities, our focus is on decentralized finance (DeFi). DeFi is one of the most important use cases of web3, with the total value locked currently at $45.11B. Even though Ethereum still dominates the world of DeFi in terms of market share, its scalability issues still hinder the widespread adoption of DeFi. Higher activity on Ethereum leads to low throughput and sub...

A former very smart high schooler explains the basics of Linea’s inner-proof system and why lattice-based hashing is so cool. Hey hey! I’m Emily, your friendly developer advocate, here to summarize the Linea prover for a very smart high schooler. That is, covering it at the highest level without getting into any of the actual math. Check out our May community call, where our researcher explains his work on lattice-based hashing. https://www.youtube.com/live/TD9aflpA_iM?feature=share&t=1679The...

Engage with 19 protocols and decentralized applications who are at the forefront of shaping the social and entertainment landscape of web3. Linea community, Welcome to the seventh week of the Linea Voyage. In these past six weeks, we’ve experienced nothing but immense encouragement as a result of your enthusiastic participation in the Voyage. Your support in terms of performing all the Voyage tasks to stress-test the network are helping us create a truly robust Layer 2 network. We are back to...

In week 6, participants will once again have an opportunity to boost your knowledge of the Layer 2 (L2) landscape and Linea. Hello builders! Welcome back to the sixth week of the Linea Voyage. We have another week of off-chain activities planned for you. This week, you will once again have an opportunity to boost your knowledge of the Layer 2 (L2) landscape and Linea. To test your L2 knowledge, we have prepared a quiz that you can access on the Linea campaign page on Galxe. The questions will...

All the tasks in Week 5 of the Voyage are designed to help participants delve deeper into the cutting-edge world of Linea’s network. We are halfway through the Linea Voyage, and are thrilled with the level of participation across all the tasks so far! In this past week of social activities, we saw overwhelming support from the community. After another week of off-chain activities, we are excited to welcome you all into the fifth week of the Voyage, the Tech and Dev week! Think of this week as...

Each edition of the Linea Voyage NFTs builds on a shared foundation. Whether you completed one activity during the Voyage or all of them, we appreciate your contribution to this ambitious new network. Hello Builders. Congratulations on wrapping up another week of the Linea Voyage, and exploring hands-on how to create and deploy new NFT projects on Linea. We saw an amazing participation of over 425,000 wallets, which performed transactions with our partners NFTs2me, Bilinear, ghostNFT and Zoni...

The Voyage has been a great success so far, with 450,000 participants across Linea and our partner ecosystem. We are thrilled to invite you to the third week of exciting activities exploring NFTs. Two weeks ago, we invited you to join us in exploring the endless possibilities of a Layer 2 (L2) network with the Linea Voyage. You, the builders, showed up, and how! The participation in the Voyage across Linea and our partner ecosystem has been beyond our expectations. The bridging campaign that ...

We break down the basics of zkEVMs for all readers, irrespective of their level of familiarity with web3. Zero-Knowledge Ethereum Virtual Machines (zkEVMs) are seen as a key component of Ethereum’s plan to achieve unbridled scalability. They greatly simplify the process of building for developers, and offer a low-cost and secure environment to innovate. However, it can often be difficult to fully understand what a zkEVM means and to grasp its importance in the next phase of Ethereum’s evoluti...

Today we invite developers and users to participate in the first of a series of learning challenges or “voyages” across Linea and our partner ecosystem. A key aspect of the Ethereum ecosystem is consistent improvement. When the network was founded in 2015, the Core Developers (Core Devs) and the community had already begun hashing out the roadmap that would lead us to Ethereum 2.0. A better, upgraded version of Ethereum at the time promised three things – sustainability, security and scalabil...

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...

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...

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...