LINEA at $0.003 right now. market cap $50M. 91% off ATH. people calling it dead and i keep adding
1) joseph lubin holds three chairs at once. ethereum cofounder. consensys CEO. chairman of sharplink (SBET) which holds 864k ETH and parked $170M of it on linea. one guy. built ethereum. owns the wallet 30M people use. runs the L2 underneath it. that's a vertical nobody else in crypto has
2) SBET enters russell 2000 and 3000 on june 29. $12.2 trillion benchmarks against those indexes. every passive fund tracking russell ends up holding ETH exposure whether they realize it or not. SBET sits inside the linea consortium alongside eigen labs, ENS labs, status. that's not a typical L2 cap table
3) metamask. 30M monthly users. linea is the only L2 with full native integration. no adding networks, no sketchy bridge interfaces. it's there inside the wallet 30M people already have open
4) then mUSD. first stablecoin ever issued by a self-custodial wallet. emitted by Bridge (stripe subsidiary). 1:1 cash and treasuries. GENIUS Act compliant. lives on ethereum and linea, with linea as the primary DeFi home. you can on-ramp, swap, bridge mUSD inside metamask. MetaMask Card hooks into Mastercard so people spend it anywhere mastercard works
5) MASK token coming Q3-Q4 tied to the consensys IPO. metamask rewards season 1 already distributed $30M in LINEA to active users. season 2 announced, points carry over. MASK is the end game for 30M MAU. this is the airdrop everyone's been waiting for and somehow forgotten about
6) consensys IPO underwritten by jpmorgan and goldman. goldman sachs taking the backbone of ethereum public
7) the burn. every tx on linea: 20% of net ETH fees burned on L1. 80% used to buy and burn LINEA on mainnet. coded into the protocol since november. retroactive to september. usage = deflation on both tokens. this is what the average shitcoin "burn" is cosplaying
8) yield boost activated march 30. bridge ETH to linea and it auto-stakes through Lido V3 on mainnet. 3-5% yield with zero action from the user. ETH stops sitting dead and starts defending L1 while you trade on the rollup. that breaks the mercenary capital cycle that killed L2 TVL across the board
9) SWIFT pilot. BNP Paribas, BNY Mellon, reportedly JPM and HSBC in the test. on-chain settlement triggered by SWIFT messages, running on linea. ZK gives banks the privacy they need (they cannot torch their order book on a transparent ledger). ~15 min finality. EVM compatibility. consensys reputation built over 10 years working with mastercard, visa, JPM, sovereign banks. the leaks have stayed consistent for 8 months and the silence from SWIFT denying any of it is its own tell
10) technical side. type-1 zkEVM shipped Q1 2026. full ethereum equivalence, zero code changes for deployers. L1 soft finality, up to 5000 TPS. May 6: the rollup stack handed to the Linux Foundation. open source. institutions don't deploy serious capital on a chain owned by one company. that closed a door
11) aave fully restored WETH borrowing on linea may 18 with pre-crisis LTVs. the kelp DAO exploit in april was a layerzero bridge bug, not a linea problem. the network kept running through it. kelp now switching to chainlink CCIP. linea's infrastructure took an external hit and held
12) numbers. 1.31M ETH bridged. 591k+ unique addresses. 283M+ cumulative transactions. 7M+ wallets. 400+ partnerships live. aave, pancakeswap, sushi, lido all running on linea
DeFiLlama shows ~$38M TVL and people point to that as the death signal. what they miss: SBET's $170M sits in institutional custody through Anchorage Digital. regulated, compliant, not visible to on-chain scrapers. that's how institutional capital works. it doesn't show up on dashboards built for retail DeFi. DeFiLlama dashboards were built for retail DeFi. institutional custody doesn't render there. that's the whole story
$50M market cap. FDV $217M. this is priced like a failed memecoin. SBET picked it. metamask funnels 30M users into it. consensys is taking it public on wall street with goldman underwriting. SWIFT may be testing global interbank settlement on it
i keep buying. not telling anyone else to. but "everyone hates this" is usually where the trades sit
canton network burns 15m CC tokens daily from settlement fees on $280b broadridge repo volume. that sounds impressive until you see 21.8% net inflation still outpacing burns. the entire thesis hinges on DTCC treasury tokenization going production in july. if DTCC brings even 10% of US treasury secondary market volume onchain, burn rate goes from $2m/day to potentially $10m+. if burn rate hasn't moved by august, the token bleeds through inflation. CIP-105 locks 70% of validator earnings for 365 days which removes roughly half of new supply from circulation, but that's a delay mechanism not a solution. CC at $6.4b market cap is pricing in DTCC working. $16.6b FDV at 100b supply is pricing in burn rate winning. watch the burn rate in july, nothing else.
openserv running production AI agent deployments for the UAE government at $23m market cap. 300m tokens processed through TEE-backed inference at 40x lower cost than GPT-4. 25% of platform revenue goes to $SERV buyback and burn. virtuals trades at $370m building agent marketplaces on top of infrastructure like this. the layer below the agents is a 16x valuation gap sitting in plain sight
I have so much respect for @SenLummis after hearing this speech on the importance of bitcoin and crypto
It is truly for the people.
More of Lummis less Warren.
The crypto market structure bill has PASSED the Senate Banking Committee with a bi-partisan vote!
Historic day for crypto and for the future of digital assets in America. Grateful for the countless hours from lawmakers and staff to strengthen this legislation. Big improvement from where we were in January on rewards, tokenization, DeFi, and CFTC authority. I'm proud we stood up for our customers in that moment, and the bill is better because of it.
Looking forward to a bipartisan law that cements the US as the world's crypto capital. Let's get CLARITY done.
New RWAs are coming to Monad via @Centrifuge
The first are tokenized Treasury bills (JTRSY) and AAA CLOs (JAAA) from Janus Henderson, alongside Apollo’s diversified credit strategy (ACRDX)
Investors hold tokenized fund shares with direct claims on the underlying assets and in-kind redemption rights
Centrifuge is also launching deRWA wrappers — deJTRSY, deJAAA, and deCRDX — freely transferable tokens designed for seamless integration across the Monad DeFi ecosystem, with 24/7 access and onchain liquidity