Linea Hits Major Milestones: Direct ETH Staking Live, EVM Upgrades Accelerating
Linea Hits Major Milestones: Direct ETH Staking Live, EVM Upgrades Accelerating
🚀 Linea's Next Move
Linea celebrates 42 days post-launch with impressive metrics:
- 90%+ claim rate for token airdrop
- $2B single-day trading volume
- Major exchange listings completed
- $1B+ in Aave lending at peak
New Features Now Live:
- Direct ETH staking via Lido Finance and Chainlink CCIP
- Stake ETH directly on Linea, receive wstETH in one transaction
- No bridging required - pure capital efficiency
Infrastructure Upgrades:
- Moving through EVM versions: Paris live, Shanghai next
- Cancun and Prague coming soon
- Closes gap between zero-knowledge proofs and Ethereum execution layer
Coming Soon:
- Token burning mechanism
- Native Yield launch
- "Linea Exponent" - major dApp announcement in coming weeks
Linea demonstrates zkEVMs can accelerate beyond Ethereum's upgrade timeline, shipping multiple EVM versions faster than traditional development cycles.
Big infrastructure milestone: Linea has begun upgrading from London through Paris, and soon, Shanghai, Cancun, and Prague EVM versions. We absorbed four years of Ethereum upgrades in about four months. This is how zkEVMs can go from catching up to staying ahead…
42 days since LINEA launched. - Over 90% claim rate. - $2B single day trading volume. - Major exchange listings. - And at one point over $1B in @aave lending. But the next 42 days? Even bigger. Here's what's happening now… paragraph.com/@linea/42-days…
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Linea has launched a limited-time trading competition called **Follow the Fox on Bungee** that runs for just 24 hours. **Contest Details:** - Trade mUSD or LINEA tokens for entry - 5 winners will receive $1,000 each - Total prize pool: $5,000 - Competition hosted on Bungee platform This follows previous Linea partnerships, including a $10,000 prize pool collaboration with 1inch earlier this year. Participants can find full contest rules and entry requirements on the [Linea Hub](https://linea.build/hub/events/follow-the-fox-on-bungee). *Act quickly - this 24-hour window won't last long.*
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