This week’s Community Hour brought the usual rhythm—meme challenge, tournaments, and ecosystem updates—hosted by Danny, Myz Julz, and Josiah. We also touched on Linera’s readiness for the agentic future, with updates on MCP integration for open-weight LLMs and how microchains enable real-time agent interaction. Oh—and yes, we see you 👀 asking “wen testnet 3?” September is coming. ⛓️🧠

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 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.

This week’s Community Hour POAP was claimable via secret word—available only to live listeners! We shared updates on the weekly Developer Workshop series (Tuesdays), the ongoing Games on Microchains builder challenge, our regular game tournaments, and the latest meme challenge. Thanks for showing up and staying early with Linera as we build the real-time blockchain ⛓️

This POAP commemorates the Linera x Space and Time Space on November 20th, 2024. The session explored how Linera’s microchains and Space and Time’s Proof of SQL ZK coprocessor are transforming Web3 by enabling real-time, provable data querying and decentralized scalability. With insights from Mathieu Baudet (Linera Founder & CEO), Stephen Hilton (SxT Head of Solutions), Danny Greene (Linera Ecosystem Lead), and Catherine Daly (SxT Head of Marketing), attendees learned how this integration enhances high-speed, trustless transactions and multi-chain interoperability for next-gen decentralized applications.