Evaluate Lineth

This section answers questions you might have when evaluating LinethLineth (Formerly the Linea Stack) The open-source ZK-rollup stack, codebase, and technical protocol that's the foundation of Linea Mainnet. Operators can deploy this stack to launch their own Ethereum-compatible L2 or L3 networks. for your use case.

Deployment models

Compare rollup and validium trade-offs for data availability, access, and finalization.

Trust model

Understand what each deployment component can do, what participants can verify, and privileged contract roles.

Security and assurance

Review protocol guarantees, operator controls, and published assurance evidence.

Compliance

Use a deployment's protocol evidence in your own compliance program.

tip

To explore the components and architectural design choices, see Deployment architecture.

Use cases

A Lineth network can host institutional finance workflows such as:

• 24/7 settlement: Keep trading, funding, and cash settlement active outside normal banking hours.
• Collateral mobility: Pledge, recall, and reuse tokenized collateral instead of leaving it trapped across venues and ledgers.
• Atomic Delivery versus Payment (DvP): Settle tokenized cash and securities together, so both flows complete or neither does.
• Intraday repo: Fund for the hours you need, with cash and collateral moving together.

Whether you need a public network with open access and onchain data, or a private validiumValidium A deployment model in which a Lineth network proves state transitions with zk-SNARKs and posts only state commitments and proofs to the finalization layer. A validium can be public or private, depending on who has access to the transaction data. Participants cannot reconstruct the full transaction history from the finalization layer alone. that keeps transaction data offchain and controls who can access it, you can configure Lineth for either. Start by evaluating deployment models.