Linea has that quiet confidence right now. Its token, LINEA, is at $0.01116, down a bit to rank 146 with a market cap of $219 million.
The fully diluted value is $798 million based on 72 billion total supply and that same circulating figure of 19.8 billion.
Volume is solid at $127 million, making up about 58% of market cap, which keeps things liquid. The order book has a slight net outflow of $29 million overall, with medium and small sells edging out buys, but large orders are net positive by $6 million—that's often where the smart accumulation happens, suggesting some underlying support even in a choppy market.
Linea started as ConsenSys's zkEVM rollup to make Ethereum faster and cheaper, and so far, it is delivering. Fees are a fraction of mainnet costs, transactions zip through in seconds, and it's fully compatible with Ethereum tools like MetaMask.
Since launching in mid-2023, it has pulled in over 3.7 million users and 36 million transactions across hundreds of dApps, saving folks hundreds of millions in gas. That practical edge is why it's not just another L2, but one that actually gets used.
November started off with a bang: the upgrade of the Exponent, which went live on the 4th, flipped on a dual burn mechanism that torches 80% of surplus fees in LINEA and 20% in ETH. It's retroactive to September, essentially making every transaction a mini buyback for the token while feeding Ethereum's deflation.
In a week where activity spiked, this absorbed a huge 2.88 billion token unlock on the 10th without too much drama: price held sideways, fresh wallets doubled, and exchange flows were calm, no big dumps. That is resilience. Last week, Rainbow Wallet integrated Linea, making it dead simple to bridge and play dApps right in-app, which could pull in MetaMask's huge user base. Add the upcoming Native Yield launch in Q4 for staking ETH rewards, and it's stacking incentives without over-relying on hype.
Partnerships keep the momentum going too. SharpLink's $200 million ETH deployment is live, and SWIFT's trials with banks like JPMorgan are humming on Linea for instant cross-border settlements. That's real-world utility—handling trillions in payments without the old middlemen.
On the dev side, zkML integrations for AI and the Limitless Prover for 5,000 TPS are in the works, tying Linea deeper into Ethereum's Fusaka upgrade next month. Community sentiment? Bullish at 4.1 out of 5, with X buzzing about the burns and integrations, not just price pumps. Over 1.3 million verified users and steady TVL around $1.5 billion show the network's sticky.
The token set up rewards usage: 85% supply goes to ecosystem growth, vesting over a decade with no insider grabs, and those burns create scarcity as activity rises. From the September high of $0.046, it's pulled back over 75%, but that's bounced 54% off the $0.007 low, with a 13% weekly gain lately outpacing the market. Inflation from unlocks is a headwind, but the absorption so far points to demand catching up.
Projections lean optimistic if Ethereum rallies. For the rest of 2025, averages float in the area of $0.018 to $0.020, with highs up to $0.031 if burns accelerate and BTC holds $100K. By 2026, it feels steady at $0.022 to $0.027, pushing toward $0.050 in a bull extension.
Longer haul to 2030? $0.042 conservative, up to $0.085, or even $0.20 if adoption scales and deflation kicks in hard. Sure, broader market fear-index at 26-and unlocks could test it, but Linea's Ethereum ties and burn flywheel make it tougher than most.
Linea isn't the flashiest, but it's building something durable: efficient scaling with real finance hooks. With Exponent proving its chops and integrations like Rainbow opening doors, this dip looks like a loading phase.
If Layer 2s are your angle, LINEA is on Binance, so you can track those large buys and volumes closely. Might be worth a spot on the list as things heat up.
