Linea Network Grinds to Halt: Block Production Stops in Major Outage
Linea's blockchain just hit an invisible wall—block production screeched to a complete halt, leaving traders and developers staring at frozen screens.
The Great Pause
No new blocks. No transactions. Just digital silence across what was supposed to be a bustling Layer 2 ecosystem. Validators went idle, nodes stopped communicating, and the chain essentially flatlined.
Infrastructure Under Microscope
Core engineers scrambled to diagnose the cascade failure—was it consensus mechanism corruption? Memory pool overflow? Or just another Tuesday in crypto infrastructure? Meanwhile, arbitrage bots sat useless while missed opportunities piled up.
Market Ripple Effect
DeFi protocols built on Linea froze mid-swap, NFT transfers hung in limbo, and let's not even talk about the leverage positions turning into time bombs. Another reminder that in crypto, your assets are only as mobile as the least reliable chain in your portfolio.
As teams race to restart the sequence, the real question lingers: how many 'decentralized' networks would survive a weekend without their core devs on call? Probably fewer than your average centralized exchange—and those at least have customer support numbers.
Linea 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 conditions. As Cryptopolitan previously reported, Linea joined the trend of new active airdrops in September 2025.
Most of the farming activities on Linea wrapped up months ago. The main requirement was to transact on the network and pay for gas. In the past few weeks, gas spending increased due to growing DeFi usage.
The Linea token is already in price discovery on limited pre-trading markets. The 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 media. Some users will receive the token through the Binance HODL program, while others must use the official claims page.
Following the network outage, the network is expecting increased traffic as the native token spreads and starts trading.
Linea network stops sequencer
The Linea network can be very fast, and has seen spikes in transactions in previous months. Some of the activity was due to incentives for an eventual airdrop.
As of September, Linea carries around 2.2M daily transactions, down from a peak of over 40M in May 2024. Linea also posted a record in secured value, with a total of $1.7B in bridged and native assets.
The network saw an expansion of apps, leading to peak value locked and an inflow of stablecoins. The network carries over $290M in stablecoins, and produces over $200K in daily app revenues.
The Linea team disabled the sequencer in June to contain an exploit, and still relies on centralized control. Some apps also send their bundles directly to the sequencer for faster approval.
Linea is still considered a Stage 2 network, relying on a centralized sequencer. While this solution promises speed, it is considered against the principles of distributed networks. Other chains have worked toward more decentralized consensus, but Linea has retained its sequencer.
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