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Promote with Leviathan NewsLinea has contributed the open-source technology stack behind its Ethereum Layer 2 network to the Linux Foundation’s Decentralized Trust (LFDT), where it will be governed as a new project called Lineth under a vendor-neutral, open-source model. The Linea Consortium, a non-profit guiding the ecosystem, has joined LFDT as a premier member and is shifting stewardship of the stack from a single corporate owner to a foundation-led governance structure intended to broaden participation and appeal to enterprises and institutions. Lineth is a production-grade, EVM-equivalent ZK rollup stack that has powered Linea mainnet since 2023, covering the full L2 pipeline: execution (built on the Besu client), consensus (via the Maru client), a coordinator that manages sequencer–prover–L1 interactions, a prover based on gnark, and L1/L2 smart contracts for verification and bridging. Under LFDT, Lineth becomes the first major Ethereum Layer 2 stack to sit in a neutral open-source foundation, with governance handled through LFDT structures such as a technical steering committee and a broader maintainer base rather than a single vendor. The move is framed as a step in Linea’s gradual decentralization and as infrastructure that other developers or enterprises can use to launch their own Ethereum-compatible networks, though analysts note that Linea’s live network still retains centralized elements such as its sequencer, prover and security committee and is classified by L2Beat as a “Stage 0” rollup with strong operator dependency. For enterprise and institutional users, this shift matters because it aligns Linea’s core stack with established open-source governance patterns familiar from other Linux Foundation projects, reducing vendor lock-in risk and potentially making the technology more acceptable for regulated or risk-averse organizations. LFDT, which focuses on decentralized technologies such as blockchains and digital identity, gains a mature ZK rollup implementation that has processed hundreds of millions of transactions on mainnet, expanding its portfolio of production-ready components for Ethereum scaling and related use cases.
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