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...

The main aim of this campaign is to bring in more web2 users on to Linea, and into the overall web3 ecosystem. Gm Linea fam, We hope you are having as much fun with the Linea Entertainment Festival as we had putting it together for you. So far, users have completed over 290,000 quests as part of the Festival. In addition, Linea organized two in-real-life events in collaboration with DeGame and Particle Network. The first was a gaming mixer that attracted more than 300 attendees at the Korea B...

Linea’s Dencun Voyage will provide members of Linea’s community an opportunity to become “Ecosystem Leaders”, to lead celebrations around the Cancun-Deneb Upgrade and how it will impact Ethereum scalability with Linea users and partners worldwide. After successfully completing the Shanghai/ Capella upgrade in April 2023, Ethereum’s core developers have been working hard to prepare for the next upgrade, code-named “Dencun”. The name Dencun is a portmanteau word that combines Cancun and Deneb, ...

By leveraging the Linea Gas Pass, Linea aims to inspire users to actively participate in the Linea Entertainment Festival and contribute to the burgeoning gaming community on the L2 network. Linea always aims to be at the forefront of adopting cutting-edge web3-native tools and products. To this end, we are introducing an innovative reward type for the Linea Entertainment Festival: the Linea Gas Pass. The Linea Gas Pass is a NFT that also functions as a wallet. The token-bound account standar...

The Festival is a social and gaming extravaganza aimed at exploring online gaming on L2s, and expanding Linea’s gaming ecosystem. Hello Linea fam, Right from Linea’s launch, we have looked towards you, the web3 community, to ascertain the limits of the usability of the layer 2 (L2) network. We began the journey with the Linea Voyage, which helped us stress test the network and make it mainnet ready. It also gave us an insight into the fantastic community of Linea users that we can rely on to ...

Linea Completes its Alpha Mainnet Launch, Unlocking DeFi Applications and Offering Users 0 Fee USDC Purchases Today, the leading web3 software technology company, Consensys, announces the completion of the public launch of its Layer 2 blockchain solution Linea. This milestone follows the Linea mainnet going live at EthCC in Paris. In the first month of Linea’s mainnet going live, the L2 blockchain saw a record level of on-chain activity with over 2.7 million transactions and $26M of tokens br...

Since Linea launched its Alpha Mainnet at EthCC in Paris last month, the network has seen enormous traction. Join the team as we celebrate the completion of Linea’s mainnet launch. On Aug 16th, 2PM UTC, you can watch the livestream on Youtube, LinkedIn, or login to Decentraland to watch from there and network with Linea team members and ecosystem partners. Those who attend our Decentraland meetup will have the opportunity to mint exclusive NFT wearables commemorating Linea’s mainnet launch. T...

Over 20K of the open-edition NFTs from Linea’s first ever ‘Voyage’ collection have already been minted. Gm Linea fam. The first ever Linea quest, the Voyage, ended about three weeks ago, but our gratitude to you for making it a great success has not. As a token of thanks to the community for helping us prepare Linea for mainnet, we airdropped four editions of the first ever Linea NFT collection to nearly 352K participants of the Linea Voyage. Now, the window to claim the exclusive fifth editi...

User experience (UX) is the unsung hero that plays a pivotal role in determining the success of zero-knowledge (zk) feedback form applications. Good UX design is like a well-crafted story—it can spark curiosity, engage the user, and leave them satisfied. Zk feedback form applications are becoming an essential tool for preserving privacy and security in the constantly changing digital world, where decentralization is gaining ground. Given their complexity, it is difficult to create a smooth UX...