This week our team is excited to make the largest and most anticipated LXP drop in Linea’s history for some of the biggest OGs. The Testnet Voyage Campaign dates back to May 2023 when our network was just getting started and Linea Goerli struggled mightily to keep up with the enthusiasm and persistence of community members who joined Linea's inaugural campaign.

The Linea team and community will be simultaneously living life onchain and in Bangkok this month for Devcon 7 in Thailand, one of the longest-running events in the Ethereum ecosystem. Devcon gathers developers, researchers, creators, and innovators from around the globe. And we’re thrilled to be a part of this year’s edition, showcasing the latest and greatest from Ethereum’s global community. Here’s where to find us:

Digital identity is crucial to how we live our onchain lives. At baseline, taking control of one’s digital identity means you have the authority, autonomy, and tools to manage your personal information, decide who can access it, and control how it is used across digital platforms. It enables you to protect your privacy, verify your identity, and manage how you interact in the digital world without relying on third-party control or centralized entities.

The Life on Linea contest invites both users and builders to share their best content across social media, showcasing your favorite parts of onchain life on Linea. At the end of each week, participants can win a share of the weekly 2.5 ETH prize pool, awarded based on the number of votes they receive from curators. In this blog, we’ll share how you can increase your chances of winning a share of the weekly prize pool by 20%. You can also get instant rewards by sharing your content as an NFT and collecting Life on Linea NFTs on Phosphor.xyz

The Life on Linea contests invite both users and builders to go wild creating their best content on X, Youtube, Instagram, Warpcast, TikTok or LinkedIn, showcasing your favorite parts of onchain life on Linea. We are running two contests: one for users (Life on Linea) and one for builders (Build on Linea).

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 explosive growth of gaming, DeFi and NFT sectors.

Blockchain and web3 have changed our understanding of transparency, trust and decentralization. One of the most incredible use-case for this technology is the development of web3 dapps (decentralized applications) that offers solutions that are secure, verifiable and tamper-proof solutions to our everyday challenges. Among all the use-cases, decentralized voting stands out. Decentralized technologies remove middlemen and ensure transparent vote counts, this voting dapp has the potential to change governance system while enhancing the democratic process.

With the launch of ENS on Linea last month, new frontiers are opening up for the ecosystem. Linea Name Service, a fork of Ethereum Name Service (ENS), allows users to register and manage subdomains for a fraction of the L1 gas price, working towards our goal of a user-friendly Ethereum. These subnames are fully compatible with ENS and can be used on any dapp or chain that supports ENS, with 350K registrations to date.

We’re committed to providing web3 developers with top-tier infrastructure for creating novel decentralized applications. To further reinforce this commitment, Linea has integrated the industry-standard Chainlink Cross-Chain Interoperability Protocol (CCIP). We’re leveraging CCIP to enable developers to build secure and feature-rich cross-chain applications and expand the multi-chain ecosystem.