Linea welcomes Status as the first contributor to the open-source L2 stack project

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Linea, an Ethereum layer-2 scaling solution, announced Status as the first contributor to its open-source L2 rollup project. This partnership marks a significant milestone in Linea’s decentralization roadmap and aims to establish a more transparent, secure and collaborative ecosystem.

Status, a global collective building a digital platform for inclusive communities, will launch Status Network on Linea. The collaboration involves Status developers engaging directly with Linea’s codebase to operate an identical version of Linea in parallel, strengthening the entire ecosystem.

Nicolas Liochon, Global Leader of Linea, emphasized the partnership’s alignment with the focus on open-source development since the successful launch of the Linea alpha mainnet.

“Our collaboration with Status is a natural fit given their significant contributions to Ethereum’s core operations and their strong consumer focus through the Status app,” says Liochon.

The Status team’s contributions to Linea will include ongoing engineering efforts, conducting research, and supporting customer and evidence diversity. Cyprien Grau, a Status Senior Contributor, outlined the shared vision between Status and Linea for further decentralization on the Ethereum blockchain.

“We believe zk is the endgame for scaling, and we couldn’t be more excited about this deep collaboration aimed at ultimately scaling Ethereum horizontally,” said Grau.

Scaling through zkEVMs

Linea’s scaling solution uses the knowledge-free Ethereum Virtual Machine (zkEVM) technology to address the challenges of high fees and low transaction throughput on the Ethereum blockchain. This approach aligns with Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin’s recent statements regarding cross-interoperability between Ethereum L2 networks.

In an Aug. 5 post on X, Buterin predicted that people will be “surprised at how quickly ‘cross-L2 interoperability issues’ stop being problems” and the resulting “smooth user experience” in the Ethereum ecosystem.

As the first contributor to Linea’s open-source project, Status Network’s involvement may encourage other developers and organizations to participate in similar collaborations, potentially accelerating innovation and adoption of Tier 2 solutions in the broader blockchain space.

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