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How MetaMask Card, a Mastercard debit card that enables instant spending directly from your self-custody wallet, is enabled by the speed and cost-efficiency of the Linea network running on top of Ethereum.Editor’s Note: The MetaMask Card pilot is now available in the EU, UK, Switzerland, Brazil, Colombia and Mexico. MetaMask Card launched via a pilot program in the UK and EU countries earlier this year and availability will expand to other countries in the coming weeks and months. MetaMask Ca...

In a major leap for Ethereum scaling, ENS Labs and Linea Association join forces to create Namechain.Zug, Switzerland, December 17th - Today, ENS Labs, the organization behind the open-source blockchain naming protocol, Ethereum Name Service (ENS), and the Linea Association, which powers the growth, development, and governance of Linea’s open-source technology and ecosystem, announced a joint engineering partnership to build Namechain. Namechain is a custom Layer 2 (L2) solution designed to p...

Layer 2 (L2) solutions like Linea help Ethereum scale to meet the demands of a maturing blockchain industry without sacrificing on security. Linea and its zkEVM (zero-knowledge Ethereum Virtual Machine)-based solution are on a mission to optimize transaction execution and roll up compressed data to the Ethereum mainnet. A key milestone on this journey is the decentralization of the sequencer, which is responsible for ordering, building, and executing transactions within the network. Below we&...

Linea’s Dev Cook-Off has been simmering for several months now and some spicy creations are ready to serve. The monthly online buildathon has seen more shipping than some of the world’s biggest ports and today we’re highlighting a few of this year’s winners: OwnSound and Linea Club. Let’s start with OwnSound, a project that believes our Dev Cook-Off may have sparked the future of music ownership.The vision behind OwnSoundFrom blockchain developer Abhishek Yadav and full stack dev Vivek Sahu, ...

Blockchain and web3 have changed the way we think about our digital assets and the way we transfer value. One revolutionary primitive is the digital token, a programmable asset that can represent anything from physical assets to voting rights. Tokens enable complex interactions and a rich roster of functions through decentralized applications (dapps) built on networks like Ethereum and Linea. However, during the early Ethereum days there were no standard ways to implement tokens. Each and eve...

Congratulations to the European and Latin American winners of the Crypto Holiday Challenge! We love what’s coming in from you about your experiences using MetaMask Card! Winners, please remember to register with guild.xyz/linea with the wallet connected to your Metamask Card to receive your USDC by January 3rd! We will start distributing prizes on the week of January 6th. Here are some of the top entries of the week, starting with one of the first transactions from Brazil using MetaMask Card!...

The world is full of networks, including a number of massive and privately owned social and data services we rely on that have become machines of value extraction, co-opting control over user data for the benefit of the network owner. There is a better way. Linea is the counterweight to today’s stifling tech oligopoly, built to be the home network for the world with a mission to empower everyone to live on chain. But such an important project shouldn’t live inside a single company, even one a...

Linea started as a single pond filled with sovereignty-minded amphibians and other creatures, but this week in Bangkok we announced our plans to grow to a decentralized network of all the world’s like-minded ponds, puddles and wherever else Lineans may swim/roam. Wednesday at L2con and simultaneously at AltLayer Rollup Day and THW3 Bangkok, the team announced the formation of the Linea Association, an independent Swiss non-profit organization dedicated to advancing the growth, development and...

UPDATED, February 21, 2025 - Our goal has always been to deliver the best possible experience for the Linea community. We’ve actively been gathering community feedback to ensure a successful Linea launch for the project and our community members. While we initially targeted a launch in Q1 2025, technical and design work, including with our community, is on-going. We think that it is in the best long-term interest of the Linea project and its community to get this right, so while we understand...

MetaMask and Linea celebrate MetaMask Card pilot in the US, UK, Europe, Switzerland, Brazil, Colombia and Mexico with a giveaway program for holiday shoppers.Record an image or video of yourself (videos preferred if possible) using Metamask Card, or tell us why you love it, for a chance to win 200 USDC (+$200 in $BXX!) every week.BIG UPDATE: MetaMask Card is now available in the United States! 🗽(Except New York and Vermont ☹️.) https://x.com/MetaMask/status/1869422402696032348UPDATE: Baanx h...

December marks a new milestone for DeFi on Linea as DapDap brings the third iteration of its DapDap Tales campaign series. Marsh Madness reimagines how users interact onchain with Linea's core DeFi protocols through a unique collaboration with EFrogs, Across, and Lynex. Running from December 17, 2024, to January 14, 2025, this campaign builds on DapDap's mission to simplify DeFi. Through d'Avinci’s unified in-app interface, users can now bridge, swap, and engage with the Linea ...