This week’s Community Hour featured all the usual action—meme challenge, tournaments, and ecosystem updates—hosted by Danny, Myz Julz, and Josiah. We also gave a first look at our activation at FWBFest 2025 (Aug 1–3), where we’ll be issuing special IRL POAPs for festival-goers who find us under the pines. Come for the vibes, stay for the microchains ⛓️🌲🎾

We’re back from ETHCC 2025 in Cannes and ready to share highlights from the trip! Danny returns to host alongside community mods Myz Julz and Josiah, diving into how Linera’s hyper-modular architecture enables unlimited blockspace—and what that means for builders and users alike. As always, we’ll cover the latest meme challenge, tournaments, and community updates ⛓️

This week marks 1 full year of Linera Community Hours! 🎉 To celebrate, we’re issuing 1,000 POAPs—double the usual supply—as a thank-you to everyone who’s helped grow this community. We reflected on how far we’ve come, from early calls to showcasing games, memes, quests, and more—all powered by Linera’s hyper-modular architecture. Here’s to what’s next. ⛓️

This week’s Community Hour celebrated the culmination of the Games on Microchains builder challenge! We announced the winners, showcased the standout submissions, and even played a few of the games live. From ultra-fast gameplay to creative mechanics powered by Linera’s microchains, it was a showcase of what real-time onchain gaming can look like ⛓️

This week’s Community Hour POAP celebrates an in-depth focus on DeFi on Linera, following our Tuesday Developer Workshop featuring founder Mathieu Baudet, host Danny Greene, and community builder Zhao KK. We explored how Linera’s microchain architecture unlocks ultra-low-latency, end-to-end secure DeFi—including RFQs, real-time orderbooks, peer-to-peer swaps, and auction-style protocols—all scalable via user-owned and temporary chains. We also continued our Games on Microchains challenge and shared updates from the Linera ecosystem.