Linera

Over the past six months (2026-03-13 to 2026-09-13), Linera's major developments centered on bridge architecture, SDK releases, and token sale.

1. Bridge mechanism rearchitecture (merged into testnet_conway in 2026-04): the EVM<->Linera wrapped token bridge now auto-burns on Credit and mints only via verified EVM deposit proofs, removing the trusted-relayer burn step and decoupling deployment order; the Solidity contract reads BurnEvent from event streams.

2. SDK v0.15.17 was released in 2026-04.

3. The LNRA community round ended on 2026-09-09, raising only $848K against the $1.5M minimum, and funds were refunded. Earlier token economics: community reserve 60%, foundation 10%, investors 11.3%, early contributors 13.7%, community sale 5%.

Official roadmap: Testnet #4 will focus on governance chain, final tokenomics and fees, storage durability, and security audits. Mainnet and beyond plan account abstraction, fee masters, native bridges, block indexing/explorer, geographic shading, dynamic sharding and elasticity, and permissionless auditing protocol.

Mathieu Baudet is the founder and CEO of Linera. He holds a PhD in cryptographic protocols and previously worked as a research engineer at Meta on the Libra/Novi project, where he co-authored the FastPay protocol that laid the foundation for Linera. His research also includes the Zef protocol. He is active on Twitter (@ma2bd) and LinkedIn.

Linera recently added a new team member: banditxbt, who joined in August 2026 as Head of Growth Marketing. No departures reported.