Joseph Lubin, founder of Consensys, and Declan Fox, head of the Linea project, responded to external concerns about Linea on the 'The SomETHing Podcast' on the early morning of August 6.


The author has refined and organized the core content:


Positioning of Linea: Linea aims to enhance Ethereum's scalability through zero-knowledge proof technology while optimizing Ethereum's economic model with a dual-burning mechanism and native revenue model, helping it move towards mainstream adoption. In the next phase, Linea will achieve explosive growth in developer numbers, user scale, and TVL (Total Value Locked). Building an adaptable architecture to empower enterprises and various economic projects to operate smoothly on Linea is one of its optimal paths forward.


Utility and governance of LINEA tokens: LINEA could play a role in sorting and consensus mechanisms, and in the future, it may be possible to stake LINEA tokens, along with other utilities that depend on the governance structure. The governance of the Linea ecosystem will gradually become decentralized, allowing for opportunities like token voting.


Linea Alliance: The Linea Consortium is a committee composed of several Ethereum-native organizations, with initial members including Consensys, Eigen Labs, ENS, Status, and Sharplink Gaming. These five founding members perform oversight duties, and the membership may further expand in the future to ensure the alliance's transparency and neutrality.


Ecosystem fund (75% of token supply): Committed to ecosystem development, public goods funding, and Ethereum research through the Ethereum ecosystem fund (managed by the Linea Alliance), such as DeFi projects across Ethereum and Linea, identity social graphs (monetization), Launchpad, payments, and pure research projects.


Collaboration with treasury companies: Linea is providing services to treasury companies like SharpLink, which can offer significant liquidity to Linea, achieving a win-win situation.


Airdrop: In the 10% airdrop allocated to early contributors, 9% is distributed to LXP holders, and another 1% is allocated to strategic partners and builders, involving projects like ZeroLend, Etherex, Foxy, Efrogs, etc. Linea users are likely to receive future airdrops from other projects under Consensys.


When is the TGE or airdrop check? Joseph Lubin responded with "42." This number has sparked much speculation:


  • "42" is a meme from the science fiction novel (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy). In the book, 42 is described as the "ultimate answer to life, the universe, and everything," but its specific meaning is vague, symbolizing a humorous simplification of complex issues. Joseph Lubin's response may borrow from "42" to avoid directly answering the specific timing of the TGE.

  • Some community users speculate that "42" refers to 42 days, meaning September 17, which is also Constitution Day in the United States.

  • Some users also speculate that "42" refers to the 42nd week of 2025, from October 13 to 19.

  • 42 hours or August 24?

  • Other users jokingly suggested it could be 2042.

  • Coincidentally, an Ethereum address is a 42-character hexadecimal address.