Linea's Open-Source Commitment

Linea has officially closed its Exponent growth program, which ran from November 2025 to January 2026. The initiative distributed $250,000 among the top 42 teams based on verified user transactions. **Program Highlights:** - Rankings determined solely by onchain metrics - no judges or pitch decks - Winners received ecosystem support including token launch assistance, infrastructure subscriptions, and audit subsidies - Top performers gained access to funding opportunities and visibility across Linea channels The program reinforced Linea's dual-burn economic model, where network activity drives value through ETH and LINEA token burns. Full details available at [Linea's blog](https://linea.build/blog/linea-exponent-program-conclusion-and-final-update).

The Enterprise Ethereum Alliance's Privacy Working Group has published its first comprehensive report mapping the current state of privacy solutions in the Ethereum ecosystem. **Key Highlights:** - The report establishes baseline privacy standards for enterprises building on public networks - Focuses on giving organizations confidence to deploy on Ethereum - Represents collaborative effort from multiple industry contributors - Addresses privacy as fundamental requirement for enterprise adoption The working group has been developing these standards since early 2026, with the goal of enabling privacy at scale on Ethereum through proper standardization. [Full report available](link)

**Linea Stack becomes Lineth under Linux Foundation Decentralized Trust** The Linea Consortium has joined the Linux Foundation Decentralized Trust as a premier member, contributing its production ZK rollup technology as a new incubating project called Lineth. **Key developments:** - Linea Stack (now Lineth) and Ethereum client Besu now share the same neutral foundation - The Linea Consortium takes a Governing Board seat alongside DTCC and ConsenSys - Maintains 100% Ethereum bytecode compatibility - Follows Vitalik's guidance for ecosystem differentiation The move aims to establish credibly neutral infrastructure - systems that no single entity can control or remove. By housing both the L2 stack and L1 client under the Linux Foundation, Linea reinforces its commitment to open-source development and decentralization. Linea previously introduced client diversity to zkEVMs with both linea-besu and linea-geth, reducing single points of failure while achieving 4-second block times - 3x faster than Ethereum mainnet.

Linea has published an update to its documentation page. The zkEVM rollup's technical documentation is available at docs.linea.build for developers building on the network. **Key Points:** - Documentation refresh for Linea's developer resources - Updates available on the official [Linea Docs](https://docs.linea.build/) page - Follows previous documentation updates from earlier this month Linea continues to maintain its technical documentation for developers working with the zkEVM scaling solution.

Phylax Systems CEO Odysseas will discuss the evolution from reactive to proactive security approaches in DeFi during an upcoming conversation. **Key Details:** - **Topic:** The Credible Layer and its implications for builders and DeFi security - **Date:** Thursday, January 29th - **Time:** 3:00 PM UTC - **Platform:** X and YouTube - **Hosts:** suzapolooza_eth and EricCMack Several protocols including Euler Finance, Malda, Turtle, and Denaria Finance have already integrated the Credible Layer for protocol protection. Public assertions are available at [app.phylax.systems](http://app.phylax.systems).