Linea's longhorizon roadmap through 2027 helps to see what a modern Layer 2 can become without straying offcourse from the principles that have made Ethereum durable. Rather than chase the new spin, it regards scaling as an engineering and governance problem. It aspires to strike the right balance between throughput, trust minimization and economic sustainability. Because technical decisions are also going to have longrun social and financial implications. When the token launched, it wasn't just a distribution event that formalized the network's movement from a controlled rollout into an open, selfreinforcing economy. Early milestones like the activation of dualfee burns and the firstthroughput expansions were not set up to be onetime improvements. They were conceived as the beginning of a system where resource usage would closely track real demand in the network. Introducing fee burns that were tied to use created a feedback loop where usage helped to modulate supply dynamics, which over time should bring the network closer and closer to the value assumptions of its settlement layer. The story emerges more clearly in the last quarter of 2025. Now the focus shifts to equivalence. Type1 zkEVM compatibility is not just about a technical achievement. It is about who gets to build with no tradeoffs. Full opcode and tooling consistency reduces the friction for developers that already understand the underlying ecosystem. For users, it means that applications behave predictably, no matter if execution happens on main chain or in a proofbased offchain environment. The target throughput improvements towards several thousand transactions per second shows ambition but is still on a measurable basis rather than wild claims. In the next stage, in early 2026, attention is turned to decentralizing sequencing and proving. This is when the roadmap moves away from performance engineering into institutional trust design. A network that only has one party ordering transactions or producing proofs could technically be just as impressive but from an economic standpoint more fragile. Distributing these responsibilities strengthens resilience, dilutes operational influence and opens up channels for new forms of participation. Faster proving architectures complement this move by lowering the operational costs of running nodes that contribute verification work expanding who in turn can participate in the core mechanics of the protocol. Across 2026 and 2027, Linea's emphasis expands across industries that require predictable settlement guarantees and compliance ready infrastructure. This is a different way of interpreting Layer 2 potential. Viewed from this perspective, financial institutions are not simply an external sector but an eventual cohort within a shared execution environment. The roadmap points toward a chain that can support both public applications and regulated services without fragmenting into two incompatible silos. During these years the same pattern appears. Every milestone whether it's tuning performance, the introduction of tweaks to fee mechanics, steps toward decentralization or external integrations serves a broader purpose. It is about designing a Layer 2 that functions as an adjunct to Ethereum rather than simply as an alternative. The plan is aggressive but careful. It is about developing Layer 2 capacity on a way that still respects the economics and security assumptions of the base layer. Because of this steady, longhorizon approach, Linea should become a development platform built not around cycles of attention but around systems that must remain functional for decades.
