Last year, I helped my sister studying abroad transfer living expenses, which became my opportunity to get in touch with Linea. At that time, the Ethereum mainnet was congested, and the gas fee for transferring 1000 USD in USDT skyrocketed to 35 USD, with a confirmation time that took over 40 minutes — my sister was in a hurry to pay her rent, and I was refreshing the block explorer here, feeling for the first time that "cryptocurrency convenience" was an empty phrase.
A friend couldn't stand it and threw in a comment: "Try Linea, I transferred 2000 USD last week and only paid 0.04 USD in fees." Half in doubt, I added the Linea network in MetaMask and transferred 1000 USDT through the official cross-chain bridge. To my surprise, it arrived in just 12 minutes, and the fee converted to RMB was only 0.3 yuan. After the transfer, my sister immediately received a notification and successfully paid her rent.
Later, I understood after checking the information that Linea, as zkEVM Layer2, breaks down Ethereum mainnet transactions into 'small tasks' processed off-chain, then uses zero-knowledge proofs to 'package' the results back to the mainnet. It's like package sorting: the mainnet is the 'central hub', overwhelmed with traffic; Linea is a 'regional sorting point', first processing local packages and then sending the summary results to the central hub, which is both fast and cost-effective. Now, every time I transfer living expenses to my sister, I default to using Linea, not because it is 'advanced', but because it addresses the real pain point of 'high fees and slow transfers when money is urgently needed.'\u003cm-15/\u003e\u003ct-16/\u003e\u003cc-17/\u003e
