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The Nasdaq-listed company will allocate 5.6% of its $3.57 billion Ether treasury through ether.fi and EigenCloud on Linea, marking one of the largest corporate DeFi deployments to date. SharpLink Gaming has announced plans to deploy $200 million worth of Ether (ETH) from its corporate treasury onto Consensys’ Linea network. The company said the multi-year initiative will use Linea’s zkEVM layer-2 infrastructure to generate onchain yield and increase the efficiency of its ETH holdings. According to Tuesday’s press release, the strategy aims to capture “highly competitive, differentiated, risk-adjusted ETH-denominated returns.” SharpLink plans to generate yields from staking, restaking rewards earned by helping secure EigenCloud’s decentralized verification services (AVSs), and incentives from Linea and ether.fi — a decentralized liquid staking and restaking protocol. Read more

SharpLink Gaming, Inc. (Nasdaq: SBET), one of the world’s largest corporate holders of Ethereum, has announced plans to deploy $200 million in ETH from its corporate treasury onto Linea, the Ethereum Layer-2 network developed by Consensys. The post SharpLink to Deploy $200M in ETH on Consensys’ Linea — Is This the Future of Institutional DeFi and AI-Powered Yields? appeared first on Cryptonews.

Swift has chosen Consensys-developed Linea to pilot its transition from traditional interbank messaging to blockchain-based communications, according to a Sept. 26 report by The Big Whale. A source familiar with the matter said the global banking consortium selected the Ethereum layer-2 network after months of negotiations to test how interbank on-chain messaging can replace its […] The post Swift reportedly picks Linea for multi-month interbank messaging system transition appeared first on CryptoSlate.

Neal Stephenson’s Lamina1 teamed up with Consensys’ Linea to launch Spaces, a platform for creator-owned IP and interactive storytelling on Ethereum. Lamina1, the blockchain content platform co-founded by sci-fi author Neal Stephenson and tech and creative leader Rebecca Barkin, has partnered with Consensys’ layer-2 network Linea to bring creator-owned media to Ethereum. The collaboration aims to change digital storytelling by giving creators control over their intellectual property and a direct channel to their communities, according to an announcement shared with Cointelegraph. The partnership includes investments from Joe Lubin, co-founder of Ethereum and CEO of Consensys, as well as Systemic Ventures. “Neal Stephenson is one of the leading figures in cyberpunk,” Lubin said. “Lamina1 is now perfectly positioned to be at the forefront of the onchain revolution in content creation,” he added. Read more

Crypto price tracker CoinGecko shows that the Linea token traded at $0.024 at the time of writing, down 20% in the last 24 hours. Joseph Lubin, the founder of Consensys and a key figure behind the Linea blockchain, teased potential future rewards for users who hold on to their tokens.  In an X post on Thursday, Lubin said long-term holders could become eligible for future distributions, including tokens from Consensys and other aligned ecosystem projects. He said that holding tokens signals that the user is a Linea community member and is likely engaged in productive Linea economy activities.  “If we notice, at some date in the future, that you’ve held n LINEA tokens for m days, that just might lead to another token landing in your account,” Lubin wrote, adding that MetaMask and Linea are preparing something together.  Read more

SharpLink Gaming, one of the largest Ethereum treasury firms, plans to explore staking a portion of its $3.6 billion worth of ETH to the Linea network.

MetaMask, the widely used self-custodial wallet, has revealed plans to launch its own stablecoin, MetaMask USD (mUSD), later this year. According to an Aug. 21 statement, mUSD will initially debut on Ethereum and Linea L2, where it will become a key component of Linea’s growing DeFi ecosystem. The project will be developed in collaboration with […] The post MetaMask enters stablecoin scene with mUSD launch on Ethereum and Linea appeared first on CryptoSlate.

MetaMask's dollar-backed mUSD stablecoin will first launch on the Ethereum and Linea blockchains later this year.

Declan Fox, global product lead for Linea, said there is no exact date for the token generation event yet, but details will be shared a week before. The Consensys-developed Linea network says it will become one of the first Ethereum layer-2 networks to commit to burning Ether as part of its network design, as it shared new details of its upcoming token generation event and airdrop. Linea announced new staking and burning mechanisms for its upcoming token launch in an effort to become more aligned with the layer-1 blockchain, which it hopes will make the network the “home for ETH capital,” according to a statement sent to Cointelegraph. The move comes amid growing concern that layer-2 networks have been leeching chain activity and fee income from the Ethereum mainnet.  Read more