Hello everyone, I am sour jujube.
If you are familiar with the L2 battlefield, you will find a particularly interesting feature:
Optimism has competitors
Arbitrum has competitors
Starknet has competitors
Scroll has competitors
zkSync has competitors
But Linea —
has almost no direct enemies.
It does not survive by "attacking others",
but by "being itself" to grow.
You can feel that it is one of the few "non-participating in war" chains in L2.
This actually allows it to survive longer.
① Linea does not compete for narrative, ecology, or agreements
Its positioning is not:
Does not want to be a king
Does not want to trap users
Does not want to rely on airdrops to attract people
Not wanting to rely on hotspots
Not wanting to get caught up in mining
Not wanting to be the 'most formidable' chain
Linea's positioning is always:
Filling the gaps in Ethereum's long-term expansion ecosystem structure.
That is:
'ETH's overly complex matters → Let me handle them.'
'ETH's unstable part → I'm here to stabilize.'
'ETH's experience is not suitable for new users → I'm here to create a simpler version.'
It's not about attacking others, it's about filling the ETH gap.
② Linea's user structure does not overlap, so there is no need to compete
For example:
ARB users enjoy passionate DeFi
OP users enjoy governance ecosystems
zkSync users enjoy new technologies
Starknet users enjoy new languages
Scroll users enjoy 'pure ZK'
But Linea attracts:
Steady users, developer tool users, infrastructure users, medium to long-term protocol users.
Its user structure almost has no overlap with other L2s.
So it naturally has no enemies.
③ Linea's ecosystem does not rely on 'squeezing the growth of other ecosystems,' but rather on 'absorbing inconvenient scenarios of ETH' for growth
For example:
Mainnet is too expensive → Come to Linea
Mainnet is too slow → Come to Linea
Mainnet is too congested → Come to Linea
Mainnet is too complex → Come to Linea
Mainnet is not friendly enough for newcomers → Come to Linea
Linea is not stealing users,
it's stealing 'experiences that ETH cannot provide.'
This is the highest form of competition —
Not competing with others, but filling market gaps.
④ A chain without enemies can gain 'industry trust' in the long term
Industry trust comes from:
Neutral
Not attacking others
Not excluding projects
Not deliberately creating competition
Not intentionally siphoning traffic from others
Not doing things that harm the industry ecosystem
Linea does extremely well in this regard.
It makes projects feel:
'Building here, I won't get caught up in chain wars.'
This sense of security is the most scarce resource in the chain.
⑤ Finally, the key is — a chain without enemies also means 'everyone is potentially willing to cooperate'
The relationship between Linea and all L2s is:
It's not competition, it's compatibility.
It's not opposition, it's complementarity.
This makes it the 'least likely to be isolated' L2 in the industry.
In the long run, this is a huge strategic moat.
Do you think the ideal L2 should be combative? Technical? Incentive-based? Or neutral?
