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Today marks the end of my journey as a contributor to the @lineabuild team! (click to continue reading my farewell essay…) My time working as an ecosystem leader at Linea taught me one thing. The most important dapps of the future will fully abstract the chain experience and be interoperable. The question I kept asking myself was how to attract those projects to our network. My next role is at just such an application, which will onboard a large audience of net-new users to our ecosystem. We desperately need to break beyond the echo chamber and I’m thrilled to be joining a leading project that will do exactly that, and hopefully a lot faster with me on board ;) When @Halxyz was acquired by @Consensys at the end of 2022, I was surprised to find myself back in a large company. Consensys has been a great workplace and very supportive of all my quirks. One of my favorite things at this company was listening to @ethereumjoseph delivering his town hall sermons. I was already hardcore cryptopilled by the time I arrived, but Joe’s vision for the future of Ethereum is orders of magnitude beyond what I ever considered. I await with bated breath for some of the new Consensys strategies to be unveiled. Regarding Linea, I found a home both with the team and the ecosystem. It has been an honor and privilege to work here alongside you. I will probably write a book about the Linea Network someday. For the next generation of development, I think Linea will be the de facto L2 for any company who wants to build on Ethereum. It is Ethereum, down to its very bytecode, down to the chain ID. The tech and research teams are close to unlocking massive scale on blockspace, network decentralization… and there are some other eye-popping ideas currently being vetted. Suffice to say, I remain a Linea bull and expect to see the technology be adopted by great companies around the world. But as a spiritual man, I am compelled by the bhavachakra. I must take another spin on the wheel of life. I am delighted to be joining an early-stage startup again and do all of the fast-moving, high-risk startupy things. Going to give a special shoutout to the following people @croll83 for the mentorship and joy of working together @0xcam1 for the long romantic zoom calls working on the Surge, discussing meme charts like astrologers pontificating the stars, NACA & BFOC @emacosc for showing me that Roman Centurions still exist in Anno Domini 2025 @melenxyz for stepping up from the shackles of your youth into a specialized role in DeFi @suzapalooza for managing a truly insane amount of chaos day in and day out @DeclanFox14 for being the best product counterpart I’ve worked with in all my years and a steady leader who has an un-veering eye for the chain @zk_evm for the bytecode @alexand_belling for the prover @alainnicols for growing into a wonderful internet poster The CS Discord team (I don’t have your X handles but you know who you are) for facing all of the problems created by other people and your resilience and compassion in spite of the stress @jt_rose for pulling me onto Linea in 2024 and also launching it to mainnet @elodia_gim for helping us handle the crises any day of the week @0xbel1 for being one of the rising superstars of crypto, a yet unsung hero who has done more for the Ethereum ecosystem than many people i know… do not fade Bel. And @ethereumjoseph because you might be a CEO and cofounder of ETH but at the end of the day you’re just a normal dude who loves the cryptocurrency technology like the rest of us C u n the Trenches