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Two new stablecoins pegged to the Euro (EURe) and British pound sterling (GBPe) are now available natively on Linea and for payments in the real world anywhere Mastercard is accepted via MetaMask Card. Issued by Monerium, these fully regulated, backed and authorized stablecoins provide yet another secure and convenient bridge between TradFi and web3. EURe and GBPe join aUSDC, USDC, USDT, and WETH on the list of tokens on Linea that can be spent directly from your wallet with a MetaMask Card. ...

We’re very excited this week to have completed the first ever automatic bridged USDC ➡️ Native USDC upgrade with Circle on Linea. We’ll dig in with Circle on the Sequencer livestream Thursday at 1 PM ET / 6 PM UTC on X or YouTube. No bridging or swapping is involved in this historic upgrade, just your USDC.e becoming Native USDC with all its inherent goodness, and without you having to do a single thing or fret one moment. https://x.com/LineaBuild/status/1904885739692634323 I get a little rom...

This week’s Sequencer is looking ahead to an exciting announcement that you’ll need to join the livestream on Thursday at 11 AM ET / 4 PM UTC on X or YouTube to learn all about. I also know it’s been a tough week in the trenches, but I’m always looking for silver linings and like the rest of us at Linea, thinking long-term. While the pain is real right now for many, we’re still bullish through and through. I broke down my perspective in a little more detail in this thread rant: https://x.com/...

EDITOR’S NOTE: Last chance to set your alarms for today’s Sequencer Livestream—trust us, you don’t want to miss the Foxish roundup brewing at 11 AM ET 🦊🚀 This past week in web3, we learned that MetaMask Card demand is outpacing meme supply. The waitlist is growing for the card connected to the revolutionary Coinmunity Cashback program more quickly than the meme industrial complex can tweet about it (although it’s coming close). The Fox and its favorite card were in the spotlight last week a...

Linea will be the first blockchain to upgrade from Circle’s Bridged USDC Standard to native USDC. The upgrade brings the world’s largest regulated stablecoin to Linea, strengthening the L2 as a payments network.Linea, the home network to global payment applications like MetaMask Card, will soon be the first Layer-2 (L2) to seamlessly upgrade from Circle’s Bridged USDC Standard to native USDC without any action required from users or developers. The milestone is the latest on Linea’s journey t...

UPDATE on August 14, 2025: There 's now even more cashback from Coinmunity and some different tokens in the mix.

EDITOR’S PARTY NOTE: If you haven’t yet, the window of opportunity is closing to register for Linea’s After Dark party in Denver next week. Not to be missed. On to the news… This week in web3 we learned that Argentina has nukes. Not nuclear weapons, but nuked charts for the $LIBRA memecoin that has everyone talking, including me: https://x.com/EricCMack/status/1892005485773213860 Trantor and I will dive a little deeper into the debacle that has ensnared Argentina’s president on the Sequencer ...

Throughout this crypto cycle, meme coins have been a prime attractor for developers, communities, and the crypto-curious. The excitement is undeniable, and for Linea, we’re committed to supporting communities that exemplify creativity, engagement, and innovation. That’s why we’re introducing the Linea Meme Manifesto. By following these guidelines, teams can build memes that matter and engage with Linea to get support. At a glance, the five meme commandments are:Be CreativeBelieve in SomETHing...

Note: TOAD AI is a community project on Linea, supported by Ape Accelerator. Something is brewing in the Frog Chain, and it’s more than just another meme. Lick the Toad, Break the Matrix—Lick the Toad and See. Look out in the coming weeks for Linea’s flagship AI IP project, TOAD, launched through APE Accelerator. This AI TOAD isn’t just here to inform; it’s here to open minds, challenge perspectives, and pull back the curtain on the ever-evolving Linea ecosystem. The AI TOAD will croak out kn...

This week on Linea was big as we welcomed Aave and the full power of defi to the network. Cashback rewards started flowing to MetaMask Card users, ENS shared the future of rollups and devs kept cooking. Here’s a quick run down in this print version of the weekly Sequencer: The big headline in Frogtown this week was Linea getting ghosted by the apparition with the APRs - none other than Aave, which deployed its V3 on Linea earlier this week. https://x.com/aave/status/1889329719805403488 I had ...

AI Agents and specifically AI crypto agents are on the rise and making their way to Linea. Now it's your turn to contribute and build your own version of AI on the world’s home network. We'll be offering hackathons on this subject throughout the year, starting with the hackathon we're organizing with Safe from February 3 to 14. Here’s what you need to know about where the crypto bots everyone is talking about come from:The Rise of AI Agents: A New ChapterAI agents are not just ...