Linea, one of the prominent L2 chains on Ethereum, stopped producing blocks for over an hour on 1 main reason may be the sequencer, which has stopped approving blocks. Linea, one of the main L2 chains on Ethereum, stopped producing blocks for over 40 minutes on 2 after the outage, the most probable explanation was a problem with the sequencer, which still relies on centralized approval of 3 network outage happened just hours before the planned airdrop event, which would arrive after months of point farming and 4 is the day! Check your eligibility at the link below. 0 5 — 6 (@LineaBuild) September 9, 2025 Based on Lineascan, the outage started at 6:35 GMT, when the last block was 7 block mostly contained bridged ETH 8 is involved in DeFi, as L2 chains took a bigger share of the Ethereum economic 9 after the outage, Linea resumed block production, including all related on-chain financial 10 prepares for airdrop The Linea airdrop was expected in the last months of 2024, but the network did not join the trend.
Instead, the project waited another year to launch the token during more favorable market 11 Cryptopolitan previously reported , Linea joined the trend of new active airdrops in September 12 of the farming activities on Linea wrapped up months 13 main requirement was to transact on the network and pay for 14 the past few weeks, gas spending increased due to growing DeFi 15 Linea token is already in price discovery on limited pre-trading 16 asset hovers around $0.027, with many small-scale users expecting an airdrop of around $100. As with other airdrops, fake claim links and scams are spreading on social 17 users will receive the token through the Binance HODL program, while others must use the official claims 18 the network outage, the network is expecting increased traffic as the native token spreads and starts 19 network stops sequencer The Linea network can be very fast, and has seen spikes in transactions in previous 20 of the activity was due to incentives for an eventual 21 of September, Linea carries around 2.2M daily transactions, down from a peak of over 40M in May 22 also posted a record in secured value, with a total of $1.7B in bridged and native 23 is securing a record value, based on bridged inflows and native assets. |
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