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...

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...