Today @Aave landed on @LineaBuild. Big deal? Absolutely. But to get why, we must look to history. Here's a quick syllabus: 📚 Lessons from history: - Ancient Rome: Trust crumbled → currency collapsed - Bank of England: Trust centralized → power concentrated - Aave+Linea: Trust decentralized → power reimagined Let's get more granular and rewind first a few thousand years to every GenX dude’s fave: Rome.🏟️ Romans understood liquidity rules empires. Their argentarii (ancient bankers) greased the wheels of commerce and bankrolled legions of Centurions—until trust collapsed. Sound familiar? 🏛️💸 ⏩FF to 1694: London’s burning through cash for wars. Solution? The Bank of England. Funded navies, backed by taxes… and the threat of state power. Centralized liquidity literally built empires. But at what cost? 🏴☠️⚔️ ⏩Jump to 2008. Banks implode. Central banks hit CTRL+P on money printers. Liquidity saved the day… but reinforced the same old system: trust us, or else. Enter Aave. No central bank. No “or else.” Just code that says: “Here’s the pool. Lend. Borrow. Govern.” Game. Changer. 🧑💻⚡ Now deploy that on Linea’s 2-second finality (→ Faster than Venmo) with fees cheaper than a McChicken. This isn’t just DeFi—it’s warfare-grade liquidity infrastructure without the warfare. Recapping history’s dirty secret: Liquidity needs muscle. Roman legions seized silver mines. The Bank of England funded ships to “persuade” colonies. Aave+Linea flips this script: liquidity secured by cryptography, not force. 🧮 > 💪 Linea’s magic? It’s Ethereum’s security with a new, more froggish swagger. Millions of transactions, ~$0.01 each. For Aave, that means lending markets that scale like banks looking for bailouts when they get caught on the other side of the Big Short. Like the Roman denarius, centralized systems can collapse under inflation or mismanagement (see: 2008). Aave+Linea offers a new paradigm: liquidity that’s decentralized, transparent, and resilient against systemic failures. Soon, Aave could handle billions in liquidations seamlessly on Linea’s infrastructure—proving that decentralized systems can scale without sacrificing security or efficiency. This is the future of finance being built today. Final thought: Money has always been a story we agree to believe. Aave and Linea are writing the next chapter—one where order isn’t kept via guns and steel, but ZK proofs and pooled ETH. Buckle up. 🚀

Your transactions are now 3x faster than before. Now go forth and trade.

"Ethereum is too fragmented, the bridging experience sucks" Everytime I use Across, its a reminder that we are closer than ever to a unified cross-chain experience.

Spending your crypto has never been easy... until now. MetaMask Card early access is here. And so is 1% cash back in $USDC. 👀👀👀

Built with ❤️ on @Aave, @LineaBuild and Ethereum.

Aave V3 is now live on @LineaBuild mainnet, an Ethereum-equivalent zkEVM rollup. Linea’s zk-based technology enables users to supply and borrow with fast, low-fee transactions.

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Imagine a bank account with DeFi yields and you can spend your underlying DeFi assets on anything you want, anywhere in the world. @danieljosep_eth is shipping this and it's on @LineaBuild Many such unsung heroes of our industry who don't get the proper recognition