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1/5 Attention LL Community: A new star just lit up the LightLink universe
We're proud to announce Stella, our first chain-abstracted wallet, is now live in early access!
After a year behind closed doors, it’s ready for VIP explorers
Today, the first constellation opens ✨
Coinbase and The Block Research found 73% of stablecoin transfer volume in the 12 months to July moved outside US banking hours
Money stopped keeping banking hours
LightLink never had any
→ ~1.2M blocks in the last 7 days
→ one every ~0.5s, Sunday 3am included 😏
1/6 Putting a user's action on-chain usually means building:
→ wallet infra
→ RPC plumbing
→ transaction signing
→ gas top-ups
Bolt replaces that stack with API calls 👇
5/6 Beyond minting, it's the same pattern for:
→ creating user accounts
→ deploying and executing contracts
→ creating and transferring tokens
→ webhooks for what happens next
6/6 It already runs at scale: @trycarbonio's CRT, the most-held token on LightLink, is built on Bolt
Read the Bolt docs 👇
docs.lightlink.io/lightlink-…
Blocks on LightLink land every 0.5 seconds
Once a tx is in a block it has "soft finality": its order and result are set, as long as the sequencer stays honest
Then the data goes to @celestia and the chain settles to Ethereum
For apps, that means no long "pending" state 🤠
1/6 "Gasless" gets thrown around a lot
On LightLink it's a specific mechanism, built into the protocol
Here's what actually happens when an app turns on Enterprise Mode 👇
5/6 So where does the gas go?
The app prepays its quota in stablecoins, ETH or $LL
That's converted to the native token to pay the nodes, so the chain still runs like a normal Ethereum-based chain
The cost just moves from the user to the app
6/6 When the quota runs out, the app picks:
→ top it up
→ or let users pay normal gas again
Try it on Pegasus Testnet with the self-serve whitelisting tool, or talk to us on Discord for Mainnet 👇
discord.gg/lightlinkchain
Weekly stats for LightLink Mainnet:
→ 233.3M blocks
→ 94.3M txs
→ 5.9M addresses
→ 945.6K txs in the last 30 days
Blocks still landing every ~0.5s 🤠
The fastest blockchain can still feel slow
For us, speed is measured in TPS and finality time
For users, it is the time between pressing a button and seeing the result
To become truly fast for both users and devs, chains must optimize everything, not just benchmarks 🧵
And to process more txs per second, devs can implement parallel tx processing, doubling or tripling the number of transactions that can be completed in the same amount of time
Sadly, simply increasing block size or decreasing block creation time affects security, so we should be creative
LightLink already builds around this idea with 500 ms blocks and Enterprise Mode, which lets apps offer gasless transactions
The next leap isn't just making LightLink faster
It is making the blockchain feel lightning-fast while LightLink handles the speed underneath
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