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In an era of L1 maximalism, Linea is aiming to create an L2 model that brings more benefits back to Ethereum. Today's Issue ⬇️ - ☀️ Need to Know: Here Comes ETHzilla
A new treasury company roars to life. - 🗣️ Analysis: Linea's ETH-Boosting Model
Get to know the L2's novel structure.
Sponsor: Unichain — Faster swaps. Lower fees. Deeper liquidity. Explore Unichain on web and wallet. . . . NEED TO KNOW Here Comes ETHzilla - 🧬 Biotech Company Pitches 'ETHzilla' Rebrand, $425M ETH Treasury. Nasdaq-listed 180 Life Sciences is pivoting to Ethereum after raising millions. Its new name sets high expectations.
- 🦅 SEC Approves In‑Kind Redemptions for BTC & ETH ETFs. Authorized participants can now settle ETFs directly with crypto assets.
- 🏡 Sen. Lummis Introduces Bill to Greenlight Crypto for Mortgages. The legislation aims to guarantee crypto holdings count toward home loans without conversion.
📸 Daily Market Snapshot: The crypto market continued to stall Tuesday with BTC and ETH both dropping half a percentage point in 24hr trading. PUMP mounted a big green candle after days of slides, climbing a much-needed 17%. | Prices as of 6pm ET | 24hr | 7d |  | Crypto $3.85T | ↘ 0.6% | ↘ 1.5% |  | BTC $117,494 | ↘ 0.6% | ↘ 1.8% |  | ETH $3,774 | ↘ 0.6% | ↗ 1.5% | . . . ANALYSIS Unpacking Linea’s Ethereum-Boosting L2 Structure Amid a wide field of Ethereum Layer 2s, new projects need to stand out from the crowd. I recently wrote about Namechain, built by ENS – one of the most successful Ethereum apps ever – on top of Linea's zkEVM rollup tech. That's a major get for Linea, and significantly validates its L2 stack. Linea has more under its sleeve than partnerships alone, though. Today, the new network laid out some other advantages of its offering. Let's dig in! 👇 Linea's New PillarsLinea is an EVM-equivalent rollup, meaning anything that works on Ethereum will work exactly the same on Linea. That's deep technical alignment, but the team isn't resting on these laurels. This week, the team announced a series of planned updates that will further align Linea with Ethereum and even route value back to mainnet. Here's what's coming: 🔥 ETH burn economicsGas on Linea is already paid in ETH, and soon the L2 will tie this usage to two burns: 20% of all gas income will be burned as ETH, while the remaining 80% will be used to burn the upcoming LINEA token. The intent is straightforward. Make L2 activity accretive to ETH’s monetary story while also shrinking LINEA’s float as demand rises. 💸 Native ETH yieldAnother major change coming to Linea is native staking of bridged ETH, with yields earmarked to support liquidity providers and DeFi activity on the network. Details on validators, risk, and distribution are still to come, but the idea is to treat ETH as a productive base asset and not just a gas token. 🏦 A new Ethereum warchest85% of the upcoming LINEA supply is slated for the ecosystem: 10% for early users and contributors, and 75% for "growth, public goods funding, and Ethereum R&D" via what Linea is billing as the largest ecosystem fund of its kind. A new “Linea Consortium” of Ethereum orgs, starting with Consensys, ENS, Eigen Labs, SharpLink, and Status, will oversee most token distributions, with a governance charter promised as well. If executed well, this body can help shift typical L2 emissions toward broader Ethereum outcomes rather than just local TVL games. The Big PictureLinea is about to turn its everyday usage into an ETH supply sink, tightening its ETH-L2 alignment loop and giving its ecosystem apps a clean “we strengthen Ethereum by default” story. That's smart. Auto‑staking bridged ETH helps deepen DeFi liquidity without opaque emissions by piping staking returns to LPs, which is also smart. It's transparent market‑making support designed to attract professional liquidity for the long-term. Plus, allocating the majority of LINEA to public goods and Ethereum R&D can kickstart a trend moving L2 treasuries away from mercenary TVL games and toward shared infra financing. If grants bias toward credibly neutral tooling, everyone on Ethereum will benefit. That's smart, too. The bottom line? The trifecta of ETH burns, native staking, and an Ethereum superfund offers a new coherent playbook that other L2s can copy. The real moat now lies in execution, governance quality, and real app wins, and Linea looks more than ready for this major challenge. FRIEND & SPONSOR: UNICHAIN Unichain offers the most liquid Uniswap v4 deployment on any L2 – giving you better prices, less slippage, and smoother swaps on top trading pairs. All on a fast, low-cost, and fully transparent network. Start swapping on Unichain today. | 
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