Linea Stack is now Lineth.
Chainlink SVR live on Aave V4.
Vitalik deposits 50 ETH into Privacy Pools.
Fileverse adds plain text command.
ConsenSys open-sourced the Linea Stack under Apache-2.0/MIT licensing and handed control to the Linux Foundation Decentralized Trust under a new name, Lineth. Anyone can now use Lineth to deploy a production-grade ZK rollup. Linea Mainnet remains under Consensys control and is targeting Stage 1 decentralization this month, a RISC-V prover transition in Q3, and real-time proving by year-end.
Aave integrated Chainlink Smart Value Recapture (SVR) into V4 Spokes. SVR is a specialized oracle solution that enables DeFi protocols to reclaim non-toxic MEV generated through Chainlink Price Feeds, redirecting liquidation-related value that was previously extracted by block builders. SVR leverages Chainlink Price Feeds and Flashbots' MEV-Share to redirect value back to DeFi protocols. SVR on Aave V3 has already generated $11 million for the Aave DAO treasury since March 2025.
Vitalik Buterin deposited 50.25 ETH, worth roughly $113,000, into Privacy Pools, an onchain privacy protocol that uses zero-knowledge proofs to break the link between deposit and withdrawal addresses. Buterin co-authored the research paper underpinning Privacy Pools and was among the protocol's first users when it launched in April 2025. The mainnet ETH pool now holds over 800 ETH.
Fileverse added support for raw markdown in dDocs, its onchain word processor. A new /plaintext command enables raw markdown and clean copy-pasting. The update also adds find-and-replace across entire documents and a full dDocs count, as well as mermaid.js for inline diagram generation. Fileverse allows collaborators to join documents anonymously via a link with no login required.
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