Fragmentation was supposed to be temporary. Instead, we got ten layer-2s that barely talk to each other and a hundred alt-L1s that nobody uses. Linea decided to fix the interoperability mess the practical way: make moving money feel like it does on Binance instant and cheap.
Native bridges exist to:
Ethereum mainnet (canonical bridge, 5–10 min finality)
Arbitrum, Optimism, Base, Polygon zkEVM (third-party but audited, <30 sec)
BNB Chain - official Binance bridge (instant)
No wrapped tokens, no liquidity pools to drain, no 0.3% fees. You just click "withdraw to Ethereum" and your USDC is back on mainnet once the proof settles. Same private key, same address, same token contract.
The numbers are wild: well over $18 billion of canonical USDC and ETH has flowed in and out since launch, with zero incidents, and the daily active bridges users passed 400k in October 2025.
Linea isn't trying to win the chain war; it's trying to end the chain war by making every other chain feel like one big extension of Ethereum. And so far, it's working.
