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 ...

Here’s how $TRUMP made it to Linea so quickly$TRUMP may be the memecoin to end all memecoins, or it may be the meme to create a new fusion of politics, culture and economics. It’s impossible to know, but whatever happens you can now enjoy the ride on Linea. The $TRUMP token has officially launched on Nile on Linea, which is a beautiful, wonderful achievement in cross-chain interoperability. The sight of @TRUMP flowing on the Nile is possible because of a collaboration with Ambient, Stargate F...

From memes to MetaMask Card, we’re quickly finding new ways to live together onchain.Editor’s Note:* For the latest from the Linea ecosystem and constellation of communities, check out the weekly Sequencer livestream on X and YouTube.* https://x.com/LineaBuild/status/1882474357160804511 It has been a quarter century since Robert Putnam famously and controversially declared the collapse of modern community in his book, “Bowling Alone.” The past two decades have seen time spent alone go up by a...

Gm gm world. Hope the holidays have been joyous for you all! Here are the final winners of the Crypto Holiday Challenge celebrating the expanded rollout of MetaMask Card across, Europe, the UK, Mexico, Colombia, Brazil, and the USA! Linea, MetaMask and Baanx are rewarding 300USDC and $200 in $BXX to the card holders below. Winners must head to guild.xyz/linea to verify their MetaMask Card ownership before January 3rd in order to receive their winnings. Find the winners of previous weeks here....

Linea is a year older, much cheaper, faster and more exciting than ever before.2024 came in with optimism we might be pulling out of a bear market, and it’s going out with excited visions of bulls strapping on rockets bound for the moon or another galaxy. The story of the past year has been similar for Linea and its Mainnet that was still less than 6 months old when calendars turned to 2024 in January. Twelve months later the network is becoming the place to build a digital life.Building the ...

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!...

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, ...

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&...

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...