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About Lightlink
LightLink is an optimistic rollup on Ethereum that has treated enterprise applications as its main market since 2022. Execution is Geth-compatible, data availability is delegated to Celestia, block time is 0.5 seconds, and fees stay under one cent. Its distinctive design is Enterprise Mode: a partner subscribes to whitelist specific contracts so end users transact without paying gas, with the cost settled monthly by the business, and the Bolt plugin lets games and membership programmes mint NFTs gaslessly with a single line of code.
The line also includes Stella, an account-abstraction wallet that creates a seedless account from an Apple or Google login and routes cross-chain swaps through Stargate and Oku, hiding network switching and gas top-ups in the background. Its place is a managed entry point for Asia-Pacific enterprises and games, with customers including Animoca Brands projects, Lamborghini's Fast ForWorld and Translucia. Enterprise Mode turns gas into a budgetable monthly expense, which lets games and membership apps put assets and records on-chain without changing what players experience.
In 2026 LightLink completed an upgrade of its LL token. The new asset uses LayerZero's omnichain fungible standard, keeping one identity across Ethereum, LightLink and Base and cutting cross-chain transfers from up to 24 hours to a few minutes. Governance moved to an Aragon DAO with Toucan enabling cross-chain voting on all three networks. For a layer two, a single cross-chain identifier reduces repeated approvals across networks.
LightLink remains an Ethereum layer two built around a gasless experience: apps can sponsor fees in enterprise mode, blocks land in about two seconds, fees sit below a cent and data availability relies on Celestia. Bybit delisted LL during the year; the team said operations were unaffected and disclosed that the exchange's holding had been sold on the market. Stella Wallet is moving out of beta, and a validator programme uses proof-of-holdings and proof-of-liquidity points to select nodes. With exchange coverage shrinking, the team depends more on real usage from wallets and enterprise clients than on secondary-market attention.
LightLink will tie the validator programme to DAO governance, expand enterprise gasless use cases, and use cross-chain liquidity and wallet products to offset the loss of centralised exchange channels.
Roy Hui — Co-founder & CEO; two decades of engineering experience, founded and exited MMGN and Market Engine, a bitcoin holder since 2012.
Olivia Romero — Co-founder & COO; began her career at BCG, worked at Publicis Sapient, co-founded Market Engine which was acquired by Royal Mail.
Daniel Enright — Ecosystem Lead; formerly at Atari Melbourne House and National Australia Bank.