Lean Ethereum has reached Devnet5 interop, a major milestone in its effort to make Ethereum's consensus layer quantum-resistant. Ethereum currently uses BLS signatures, which are not post-quantum secure. Lean Ethereum is leveraging quantum-resistant hash-based signatures to address this. The goal is to achieve a PQ signature scheme ready for Ethereum mainnet.

Devnet5 uses leanVM, a ZK-based aggregation layer, to enable entire blocks to carry just one aggregated signature proof instead of many individual signatures. Eight clients are participating in the devnets, with the Lean team progressively scaling validators and subnets to reach production-grade performance.

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L2BEAT confirmed that the emergency withdrawal mechanism, also known as the escape hatch, works on Lighter, an application-specific perpetuals-focused ZK rollup on Ethereum. L2BEAT independently regenerated and verified that all ZK circuits used by Lighter work.

The verification centers on Lighter's Desert mode, a failsafe triggered if the sequencer goes offline or misbehaves, allowing users to generate ZK proofs of their L2 account state and withdraw funds directly on Ethereum mainnet without depending on team involvement. The exit only works if the desert verifier contract on L1 matches the circuit source code, which Lighter recently published.

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ConsenSys open-sourced the Linea Stack under Apache-2.0/MIT licensing and its control to the Linux Foundation Decentralized Trust under a new name, Lineth. Lineth covers the full L2 pipeline, EVM-equivalent execution built on Besu, the Maru consensus client, a ZK proving stack using gnark, and onchain Ethereum contracts for proof verification and bridging.

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 the end of the year. Linea holds over $450 million in value secured.

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