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 governance of Linea’s open-source technology and ecosystem.

Read all about the Linea Association in our press release and also what it means for future tokenholders in our follow-up post.

The announcement garnered a favorable response from across the industry, including CoinDesk, CoinTelegraph, Decrypt and many others.

The Linea team was also all over the city, giving a number of talks at the DevCon main event, De.Fi World, Linea x Bitkub Unbound and offering bounties at EthGlobal Bangkok, which is still underway now.

Consensys CEO Joe Lubin re-affirmed Linea’s path to decentralized governance in his keynote talk at DevCon. There he also announced his vision for a Consensys Network State that will be resident on Linea Mainnet.

“While Consensys will operate throughout web3, we will consider Linea Mainnet our home network on which we build cores of our critical infrastructure,” Lubin said.

Read the full talk here.

Lubin also announced the launch of sovs.xyz, a project inviting everyone to declare their personal sovereignty, as another small step toward the decentralized future.

You can go to sovs.xyz now to attest to the kinds of sovereignty that matter most to you, and write your support for the emerging world of network states, and our liberation through them, permanently on Linea.

Thanks to CoinTelegraph and other outlets for covering this launch as well.

We have bigger plans coming soon: this is the beginning of a partnership with the community to build a network we all want to be a part of.

Not too bad for one week in Bangkok. Just imagine where we’ll go in the next year.