This week’s Community Hour featured Danny, Myz Julz, and Josiah with all the usual synched-up energy—meme challenges, game tournaments, and ecosystem updates. We also recapped Mathieu’s recent Bay Area trip to the Science of Blockchain Conference, where he shared the power of Linera’s hyper‑modular microchains and spoke with industry leaders and potential backers about what’s next for the protocol. ⛓️

We kicked off our first POAP drop of 2025 during today’s Community Hour call! Danny Greene, our usual host, joined us to discuss the latest questing campaign with Galxe, which launched today. We covered the usual POAP raffle and claim process, along with our “Better, Faster, Linera” meme challenge—announcing winners and sharing all the creative submissions. We also reminded everyone about our internet tournaments and game nights. Since it’s the new year and we’re welcoming many new faces from the Galxe quest, we went over the basics of Linera, shared insights about our founder Mathieu Baudet, and encouraged everyone to join the quest (especially the one focused on learning about Linera). We emphasized how early everyone still is—our mainnet hasn’t even launched yet!

This POAP commemorates Linera’s Testnet Archimedes launch—the first phase of our testnet rollout. This significant milestone marked the transformation of our devnet into a fully decentralized network with validators, enhancing both security and scalability. Our founder, Mathieu Baudet, alongside key validator partners from Luganodes, Everstake, Space and Time, and Argument, shared insights into the importance of this phase and its implications for Linera’s future. Attendees had the chance to explore the innovative microchain technology that positions Linera as a groundbreaking force in the onchain space.

Shoutout to those who joined our Community Call on Thursday, August 8th, 2024! We were thrilled to have Andre Da Silva, one of our talented engineers, share his journey to Linera and his current work on blobs. Andre, who comes from Meta like our founder Mathieu and VP of Marketing Pateel, provided insights into the innovative projects he’s working on that are shaping our protocol. This week also marked our first raffle, where we drew a winner on POAP.fun based on the POAPs collected from joiners on previous calls. In addition to the tech talk, we had some fun with memes and reviewed photos shared our new #pets channel on Discord, where community members can share photos of their non-human kin. Stay engaged and join us on Discord for more events and discussions: discord.gg/linera

Thank you for joining our Community Call on Thursday, August 1st, 2024! We were honored to have Andreas Fackler, one of our core engineers, share his extensive expertise. With a background in mathematics and programming, Andreas has been working with Rust and blockchain since 2016 and has contributed to multiple consensus protocols. Since joining Linera in early 2023, he has been instrumental in our progress. During the call, he provided an in-depth overview of the latest protocol developments and our future direction. Stay connected and join us on Discord for our weekly events and more engaging discussions: discord.gg/linera