Linea’s quietly lining itself up to be one of the main highways for on-chain AI. Why? It tackles three tough problems at once: cost, speed, and actually fitting in with Ethereum.

The thing about on-chain AI is, it’s hungry. It needs to pull data nonstop, make micro-payments constantly, and fire off tons of quick inference calls. Try doing that on Ethereum mainnet and you’ll get crushed by slow speeds and sky-high gas fees. Linea flips the script. As a zkEVM rollup, it stays close to Ethereum’s security but slashes fees and speeds up finality. That’s exactly what AI agents and AI-powered dApps need if they’re going to run around the clock without torching everyone’s wallets.

Here’s the kicker: Linea’s EVM equivalence lets AI teams stick with the Solidity tools and infrastructure they already know. No need to mess with weird custom VMs. Developers can wire up AI inference markets, data feeds, and agent coordination layers right into the Ethereum stack. Oracles, wallets, MEV tools, DeFi building blocks — all the stuff already dialed for EVM just plugs in, with barely any friction.

And when it comes to AI workloads, it’s all about quick, tiny transactions. Agents rebalancing portfolios, bots haggling over NFT prices, models paying for new data or compute — all those rapid-fire, low-value interactions. Linea’s low fees make this practical. Suddenly, things like pay-per-inference APIs and AI data DAOs actually work. Autonomous agents can trade, research, and interact on-chain all day, without getting priced out.

There’s another angle too. zk proofs open up the path to “verifiable AI flows.” Sure, we’re not at the point where we can fully prove every model inference on-chain. But with the same mindset that built zkEVMs, the space is moving toward trustless AI pipelines: provable payments, secure access, transparent data origins, and eventually, verifiable off-chain inference. Linea stands to be the place where AI models, data providers, and users come together under rules you can actually audit.

And don’t forget Linea’s deep ties to Ethereum DeFi. Now AI agents can act like proper DeFi users. We’re talking AI credit protocols, model-powered yield farms, DAOs run by agents — all living and settling on Linea, but still backed by Ethereum’s security and liquidity.

Bottom line: Linea hands AI builders a rare combo — Ethereum-level trust, L2 pricing, and EVM-native composability. That’s a pretty strong recipe for powering the next wave of AI agents, markets, and autonomous on-chain economies.@Linea.eth #Linea $LINEA