Founding & Seed Round
Founded in 2021 by Mathieu Baudet, former researcher at Libra/Novi and co-author of the FastPay academic paper. Raised $6 MM in seed fundraising in 2022 led by a16z crypto.
Whitepaper & Research Talks
Released whitepaper in 2022. Invited to give research talks at the Science of Blockchain Conference ‘22 (Stanford) as well as Aptos Labs and Chainlink Research in 2023.
Initial SDK & Developer School
Made initial SDK available for testing in 2023 and launched the first Linera Developer School program, a four-week program for developers to learn Linera’s new multi-chain programming paradigm and build on the SDK.
Additional Seed Funding
Raised an additional $6 million investment round, for a total of $12 million to date in seed funding. The round was led by Borderless Capital, with participation from Laser Digital Ventures, DFG, Cadenza, Block1, Eterna Capital, MH Ventures, Matrixport, L2IV, ArkStream, Flow Traders, GSR Markets, and OWC, with continued support from a16z crypto, Tribe Capital, and Cygni Capital, who participated in the initial seed round.
Devnet
Q1 2024 - Launched our devnet, enabling developers to begin experimenting with Linera’s microchains architecture. We’ve already seen fantastic dApps being built, like ResPeer, a peer-to-peer content publishing platform that allows authors to publish content and earn credits, which can be used to purchase digital assets in the marketplace.
Testnet
Q4 2024 - Next, we’re preparing for the launch of our testnet in late 2024, which will introduce key features such as our first web wallet browser extension and a token faucet, as well as offer incentives for users who actively engage with the network.
Built on research
Linera’s Founder, Mathieu Baudet, gave an invited talk about the Linera protocol at the Science of Blockchain Conference 2022 (SBC’22). The talk explained how to generalize the architecture and the communication model of an academic protocol called FastPay, which was published in 2020 at ACM Advances in Financial Technologies (AFT’20) while Mathieu and his co-authors, Alberto Sonnino and George Danezis, worked at Facebook / Novi Research.
Press Kit
Our brand and visual voice communicate the values and vision of the Linera project.
