Right this moment, Web3 software program expertise firm Consensys, introduced that its Layer-2 blockchain answer/zkEVM Linea has efficiently accomplished its public launch.
This milestone comes after Linea’s mainnet went stay at EthCC in Paris on July 11. Within the first month of the mainnet’s launch, the L2 blockchain witnessed over 2.7 million transactions and $26 million value of tokens bridged.Â
Consensys claims that this document degree of on-chain exercise makes Linea the fastest-growing zkEVM.
As a part of the general public launch, world customers and Third Get together Bridge Companions can now join and bridge ERC20 tokens to Linea Community. Linea achieved this via the deployment of an ERC20 token bridge, supported by a canonical token listing.
In celebration of this important occasion, Linea partnered with MetaMask, Banxa, Circle, and Transak, providing early customers a two-week window from Aug 17 – 31 with zero community and gateway charges. Using MetaMask’s Purchase crypto aggregator, customers can now buy USDC.e – USDC from Ethereum bridged to Linea utilizing the community’s ERC20 token bridge.
One month since Linea’s mainnet launch, the community has seen over 150 companions deploy dApps, greater than 100K weekly energetic customers, and greater than 2.7 million transactions.Â
“Linea will probably be a “Kind 2” zkEVM rollup; this implies it’s bytecode-compatible with the EVM and extra appropriate with current dApps and instruments than different current scaling options,” Declan Fox, Product Lead for Linea, advised Metaverse Put up. “The advantage of that is zero switching prices for dApps, better decentralization via decreased vendor lock-in, and better reuse of current Ethereum parts, equivalent to Hyperledger Besu.”
The zkEVM claims that it’s presently dealing with round 1.5 transactions per second, costing simply 1/fifteenth of Ethereum mainnet charges. It says that this value will additional lower because it additional reduces rollup bills paid to Ethereum.
New use circumstances for Linea’s public launch
Linea’s newest launch has made a variety of bluechip ERC20 tokens, together with stablecoins, liquid staking ETH, and memecoins accessible on the community. This not solely diversifies Linea’s token choices but in addition opens doorways to an array of scalable dApps spanning DeFi, gaming, id, social networks, and NFTs.
Moreover, DApp customers can now swap their most well-liked tokens, have interaction in lending and borrowing actions, and take part in NFT transactions, together with in-game objects. They’ll additionally leverage Account Abstraction to pay charges with dollar-backed tokens.
“One of many rising constructing blocks of Linea is the rising Account Abstraction ecosystem, the place our testnet noticed unprecedented quantities of sensible contract account use circumstances in the course of the Linea Voyage,” Fox mentioned.
The Linea Voyage marked a major 9-week exploration of dApps that leveraged Linea’s scalability. A vital facet of the testnet — this initiative rigorously evaluated the community’s capabilities, aiding the group in figuring out bottlenecks and making important preparations for the mainnet launch.
In a bid to drive steady innovation on Linea, Consensys additionally launched the Ecosystem Funding Alliance (EIA) – an funding consortium comprising greater than 30 outstanding enterprise capital corporations.Â
The strategic initiative goals to bolster builders by offering validated curiosity, devoted capital, and a direct pathway to the community. Builders eager on leveraging these alternatives are invited to use for the EIA via this hyperlink.