LightLink is the first L2 to use an Optimium design with proprietary tech.

- L2 costs mainly come from ops with L1.
- Optimistic Rollups: consensus/storage on L1, execution on L2.
- Optimium: consensus on L1, execution on L2, storage on DA.

Fewer operations on L1 = lower fees.

LightLink Weekly Recap:

- Heaviest Celestia Testnet user, >15 GB uploaded
- Carbon Browser and Bitget Wallet partnerships
- 21M txs on Mainnet
- 7M+ tokens minted gas-free by ecosystem partners TallyUP! and Grapes using our Bolt
- Made it to KuCoin's TOP Gainers page

https://twitter.com/LightLinkChain/status/1787446812506296380

Stake $LL to earn 150% APR on Gate.io!

- Start date: May 7 at 8:00 UTC
- Min amount: 50 LL
- Max: 2,800 LL

Details: https://www.gate.io/article/36391

We're ironing out the final details of our validator node program.

$PYTH and $TIA stakers will qualify to claim a node NFT in our "Ecosystem Supporters Airdrop."

What other communities should be included? How else does our community back the network that we should reward?

https://twitter.com/LightLinkChain/status/1787821087633359161

We're excited to announce our partnership with Edge Matrix!

Edge Matrix will provide LightLink with decentralized AI agents and a GPU-based DePIN network.

Together, we'll deliver top-tier AI services to devs with gasless txs!

IceCreamSwap has integrated LightLink!

IceCreamSwap is an AI-powered DEX aggregator boasting over $600K in liquidity.

As more DeFi projects launch on LightLink, a robust aggregator like IceCreamSwap will prove invaluable.

Welcome to the $LL ecosystem!

Gate.io will host an AMA about LightLink on Friday!

Join and win prizes for asking interesting questions:

- Top 10 questions: $5 in $LL each
- 30 lucky listeners: $3 in $LL each
- 5 lucky new Gate.io users: VIP+1 for 14 days

Set a reminder: https://twitter.com/LightLinkChain/status/1787935081325003073

$LL staking campaign on Gate.io started today, and you've got 14 days to stake $LL with 150% APR.

https://www.gate.io/hodl?pid=2442

LightLink stats are now displayed on Celenium.

Feels so right to be the #1 user of the Celestia Testnet.

Can't wait to see the chart once our Mainnet with Celestia underneath is live soon.

LightLink Hummingbird in a nutshell:

- Every 6 hours, Hummingbird pushes a Rollup Header to L1
- Header = 21 @CelestiaOrg's Blobs
- Blob = 2,000 L2 blocks
- Block = up to 700 txs

That's 117M txs per day + the first, important step towards 10,000 TPS.

LightLink's Co-Founder and CEO Roy Hui and Ecosystem Lead Dan Enright will join an AMA hosted by Gate.io this Friday!

Join to get insights about LightLink architecture, tokenomics, and node NFTs + win prizes in $LL for the best questions.

Set a reminder for May 10 at 6 AM UTC: https://twitter.com/LightLinkChain/status/1788152274264432813

CoinMarketCap has verified our circulating supply!

Our CS is 81,670,180 $LL or 8.17% of the total supply, including $LL for liquidity MM.

The team's $LL are locked for 15 months + 18-month vesting. VCs have a 12-month cliff + 18-month vesting.

We're here for the long term.

Welcome our new core developer Kassius Barker!

Kass is a seasoned dev with over 8 years of experience in Web3.

+ He's OG BTC community, founder of the Blockchain Developers Club with 3,000+ members at its peak, and author of blockchain development tutorials with 500k+ reads.

Stage is joining our gasless ecosystem!

Stage is a music-only platform for talent competitions with a unique play-to-earn model.

It'll integrate our Bolt gaming plugin to mint digital collectibles gaslessly for its users.

Get on Stage!

LightLink gasless txs are the future of DeFi!

Check this out - we only have 300 $LL in this wallet and 0 ETH.

On any other EVM chain, we wouldn't be able to swap $LL for ETH.

Now watch what happens when we try to swap on
Elektrik: https://twitter.com/LightLinkChain/status/1788298512066596935

Our Bitpixi will host a Poker Night on LightLink's Discord in a few hours!

It's our very first community event like this. We’ll start by learning the rules and getting to know each other.

Join the Voice Chat channel on May 9 at 1 AM UTC: https://discord.com/invite/lightlinkchain

It's easy to fork Optimism and spin up a generic L2 but we weren't looking for the easy road and built Optimium L2 architecture with a proprietary stack from scratch.

+ We built Enterprise Mode for gasless txs & Hummingbird to deliver unprecedented L2 scalability.

BUIDL!

LightLink will scale to 10,000 TPS with ease!

- Increased block gas limit to fit more txs
- Celestia DA to store GBs of tx data
- Optimium architecture to minimize dependence on slow L1
- Hummingbird to orchestrate it all

The key takeaway from our Twitter Space with Flu from Granary: tech complexity must lead to result simplicity.

E.g., Granary automates yield farming, while LightLink eliminates gas fees.

Full Twitter Space recording: https://twitter.com/LightLinkChain/status/1788527418216415673

We're partnering with IQ Labs!

IQ Protocol is a permissionless, open-source NFT rental solution provider for Web3 games.

The partnership empowers devs to creatively use NFTs, build engagement, and create immersive gaming experiences on LightLink.

More games to come!

12 hours left until our AMA session hosted by Gate.io!

LightLink's Co-Founder and CEO Roy Hui and Ecosystem Lead Dan Enright will share insights about architecture, $LL tokenomics, and node NFTs.

Prepare your questions: you'll get answers + prizes in $LL.

https://twitter.com/i/spaces/1OdJrjvRPmnJX