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 public deployment and private validium trade-offs for access, data availability, and finalization.

Trust and responsibilities

Learn who operates each component, what each component can do, and what participants can verify.

Privacy and data visibility

Learn what a deployment publishes, keeps offchain, makes visible, and allows participants to verify.

Security and assurance

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

Compliance

See what protocol evidence a deployment produces, to use in your own compliance program.

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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 but keeps transaction data in a private data availability layer instead of publishing it to the finalization layer. Only state commitments and proofs are posted onchain, so participants without access to the offchain data can't independently reconstruct or verify the full transaction history. that keeps transaction data offchain and controls who can access it, you can configure Lineth for either. Start by evaluating deployment models.