The vision for Linea began seven years ago with deep research into zero-knowledge technology. Five years later, that research came to life with the launch of Linea’s testnet, followed by Linea’s Alpha mainnet, and the scaling of gaming, DeFi and NFT sectors.

In the 15 months since our mainnet launch, many of you have taken to dapps on Linea to buy, sell, swap, and stake; thousands have built non-stop to fulfill visions of new permissionless systems; others have found communities and grown their digital identity with memes and gaming; and as of recently, even killed zombies.

During this time, we’ve been listening and learning from your continuous feedback across our social and support channels, from the wide variety of requests and collaborations with partners and builders to the explosive growth you spurred during the Voyage quests—all in an effort to realize Linea’s mission: to empower the world to live onchain.

To live onchain, web3 natives and explorers alike need a home. This is what we are striving to build and offer the world: a home network.

Spearheaded by Ethereum ecosystem leaders and core developers, Linea’s leading ZK technology makes life on Linea effortless, starting with high-performance speed, cost, and scale. Beyond these L2 essentials, we've been laser-focused on delivering exceptional user experiences for all kinds of web3 interactions. We’ve put our best minds to work and leveraged our close connection to MetaMask and Consensys to develop game-changing innovations in web3 security, digital identity, payments, and community, making Linea feel like home.

For Builders: We’ve invested heavily in a rich set of tools, resources, and support, including key MetaMask Developer integrations, to help builders create, deploy, and grow more powerful, stickier dapps.

At the center of all this is you—the main driver that will direct the future of our ecosystem, the home network for the world. As Linea progresses toward decentralization, your experience and your voice will determine our path forward.

Over the next few weeks, you will discover what the starting point looks like. We will walk through how we’ve approached solutions to web3’s most pressing technical, cultural, and coordination challenges. We will outline where we are today and what’s coming in the near future. Beyond that, you’ll help decide how your home network evolves.

Welcome to your life on Linea!

Explore the ecosystem.

There is no life onchain without security. Since day one, Linea has prioritized building the safest place from which to interact with web3, working with over 20 security partners on threat prevention, real-time monitoring, post-incident tracing, user protection, and trust and reputation systems.

Linea’s zkEVM is the most secure L2 solution, inheriting the security of Ethereum validators and outperforming Optimistic rollups by using mathematical validity proofs to constantly verify L2 activity on the mainnet. At the dapp, community, and protocol level, we’re building the most robust security system in web3, enabling you to transact safely onchain.

Linea is dedicated to building a human-centric network. The Linea Identity Stack—composed of Verax, Proof of Humanity, and Linea Names—empowers you to take full control and begin to unlock the value of your digital identity. Whether you’re collecting a new NFT to tie your identity to a project or leveraging on-chain attestations to interact seamlessly with dapps, Linea’s tools are in place to help you harness the value of your reputation.

Verax, an open-source, public registry for storing on-chain attestations is designed for enhanced discoverability and composability. Proof of Humanity, meanwhile, allows for the verification of unique human identities, preventing sybil attacks and ensuring that each identity is tied to a real person.

And as vocalized by Vitalik Buterin, standardization across chain-specific addresses is a next frontier for the ecosystem. The launch of Linea Names answers this call, translating blockchain addresses to human-readable labels, and establishing a new outlet for decentralized digital identities.

Linea is home to a robust network of DeFi dapps, enabling you to buy, sell, swap, trade and stake tokens. But your money on Linea doesn’t stop there. With the recently introduced MetaMask Debit card, you can make everyday purchases with your crypto anywhere Visa and Mastercard are accepted, creating a seamless payment solution to off-ramp tokens and use them IRL.

This is a game changer, giving you more control over your funds while benefiting from Linea’s lower gas fees and fast transaction speeds, making it the ideal network for instant payments. It’s new life, both on and off chain, for your activity with DEXs like Lynex and Nile, lending protocols like Mendi and ZeroLend, optimization protocols like Clip Finance, and LRTs like Renzo and KelpDAO.

Builders are the pillars of Linea and we’re dedicated to empowering you to create more powerful, stickier dapps with the tools, resources, and support of the Linea Builder Stack. With 100% EVM bytecode compatibility, developing on Linea is identical to developing on Ethereum, allowing you to use current infrastructure, tooling, IDEs, and wallets to deploy bytecode, smart contracts, and apps as they are.

Our developer resources include hackathon bounties, our monthly developer cook-off, capital funding through the Linea Ecosystem Investment Alliance (LEIA), vibrant community forums, comprehensive documentation, 24/7 support in multiple languages, and white-glove technical enablement teams—Everything you need to build, deploy, and grow your dapp on Linea.

As the home network for the world, Linea is where web3 culture and community thrive. The collective input and creativity of the community are integral to Linea and web3 at large—we are all building, collaborating, and refining as we go.

Communities around memecoins and NFT projects are particularly active on Linea. This is why we put focus on empowering creator communities. Just last month, the first ever Linea Guild Games saw gaming platform Hyperplay host a zombie killing marathon on The Unfettered for the first four Linea Guilds. These Guilds were originally meme projects on Linea that were elevated to Guild status thanks to votes from the community. Guilds Efrogs, Linus ,FrogwithCat, and Foxy are pushing the culture forward and championing Linea by rallying like-minded believers in their mission.

Outside of Linea-hosted activities, community on Linea is always bubbling. Our network wouldn’t be the same without actors like The Linea Champions, a volunteer group who dedicate their onchain lives to helping other users. Whether it's user-to-user interaction, the growth of meme culture, or ideas that snowball into projects, community keeps Linea going.

In moving toward our mission to empower everyone to live onchain, Linea’s approach has been to take web3 user, builder, and community experience to higher levels. With innovations in security, digital identity, payments, and DeFi, as well as community nurturing and organization, we’ve aimed to lower barriers to entry, create the most secure environment, streamline everyday processes, and elevate the whole web3 experience.

And again, this is only the starting point. Watch this space over the following weeks as we dive into each of the innovation areas we are driving forward, and showcase some of the coolest elements of your home network.

In the meantime, bridge to Linea, your home network.