Powered by ConsenSys, Linea is a general-purpose Layer 2 solution. The chain is a zkEVM rollup that employs quantum-resistant lattice-based cryptography to generate zero-knowledge proofs, bringing significantly lower transaction costs and greater transaction speed.
The chain’s EVM compatibility enables you to port your dapp to Linea without making significant code changes or rewriting your smart contracts. Additionally, it enables the seamless use of existing developer tools and services thanks to their native network support.
Linea is the first ZK solution that Tenderly introduced to its list of supported networks, opening new integration possibilities. By unlocking support for ZK-powered L2s and appchains, Tenderly can seamlessly integrate zero-knowledge rollups and continue supporting developers across different ecosystems. By providing integral infrastructure components across different types of EVM chains, Tenderly strives to simplify and unify development in a multichain environment.
Now, with Tenderly’s support from development to production, you can use our full-stack infrastructure integrated with essential development tools to build on Linea with ease.
Why build on Linea with Tenderly
In line with ConsenSys’ vision, the Linea network aims to provide developers with a seamless experience without the limitations imposed by scalability issues or high costs. Sharing the same vision, Tenderly strives to support developers throughout their journeys in the multichain ecosystem by providing full-stack infrastructure and developer tools within the same, user-friendly platform.
“Linea elevates the Layer 2 developer experience with its EVM compatibility, making it feel like home for Ethereum developers. Its 'dapp-first' approach ensures a seamless transition and effective utilization of its secure zkEVM blockchain. Tenderly's integration into Linea's growing tooling ecosystem amplifies this experience, providing developers with robust tools to build superior dapps efficiently. This not only attracts more developers but also enhances the quality and innovation of dapps on Linea, pushing the ecosystem further." – Declan Fox, Product Lead, Linea
Thanks to Tenderly’s newly enabled support for ZK-powered networks, you can use a full-stack infrastructure to build on Linea and get the following benefits:
- Seamless tooling availability and streamlined dapp porting thanks to Linea’s EVM compatibility and Tenderly’s availability on more than 80 EVM chains. You can use Tenderly’s development and production infrastructure out-of-the-box, with full compatibility with existing frameworks such as HardHat and Foundry.
- Low gas fees and greater transaction speed enabled by Linea’s zkEVM implementation, which significantly reduces costs, with up to 15x cheaper gas fees. Additionally, Tenderly enables you to get 100% accurate gas estimates before sending transactions to Linea, preventing out-of-gas errors.
- Flexibility and long-term scalability since Linea’s a composable network, designed to be accessible to developers. Plus, Tenderly gives you essential tools and services that cover each stage of multichain development and production under one roof.
- Focus on building innovative solutions with strong infrastructure and integral tooling already in place. Both Linea and Tenderly want to ensure seamless tooling and infrastructure availability. This way, you can have everything you need already implemented so you can direct your resources toward building your products.
How to build and scale your dapp on Linea with Tenderly
Tenderly’s full-stack infrastructure platform brings together a diverse set of integrated building blocks and tools, covering each stage of dapp development and production usage. With such a full-stack approach, Tenderly strives to give you everything you need to optimize your development on Linea, as well as other ZK chains, for maximum impact.
“Multichain solutions are a way forward for scaling Ethereum and sustaining the ecosystem growth. Tenderly’s integration of Linea is an important step as it unlocks our support for ZK-powered networks, further ensuring integral tooling availability in a multichain environment. By supporting Linea and other major EVM chains, we strive to equip Web3 teams with essential infrastructure, unify their fragmented experience, and enable them to build more efficiently as they drive the industry forward.” – Bogdan Habic, CTO and co-founder of Tenderly.
As the multichain ecosystem continues to evolve, you will have familiar Tenderly tools in place across different ZK and optimistic rollup solutions, so you can focus on innovating without the hassle of assembling the infrastructure yourself.
With its expanded support for L2s and appchains running on top of a zkEVM implementation, Tenderly allows you to easily switch between Linea and other networks, giving you a single hub for multichain development should you decide to expand to other chains.
Here’s how you can jump into building on Linea with Tenderly.
1. Build and test with your team under realistic conditions
Instead of deploying to Linea and hoping for the best, use Tenderly to build your product against Linea’s onchain data while still in development. Use Virtual TestNets to set up collaborative development and testing environments in sync with Linea’s onchain state. This way, you can test actual smart contract behavior, protocol interactions, and third-party services without deploying to a public network until you’re ready to go live.
To get started, fork Linea using Virtual TestNets in milliseconds and integrate with your existing frameworks:
- Turn on State Sync to build and test with the latest onchain state
- Use a GitHub Action to set up a CI/CD pipeline for your contracts
- Adjust the state of your environments with Admin RPC cheat codes
- Fund and impersonate accounts with an unlimited faucet for test tokens
- Explore and debug failed transactions with a built-in explorer and debugging tools
2. Integrate a high-performance Linea RPC
Scale production-ready dapps on Linea without worrying about performance or reliability. Integrate Tenderly’s reliable, low-latency Node RPC to ensure optimal performance even during increased usage and high traffic volumes.
With Tenderly Node RPC, you get:
- High performance, reliability, and scalability thanks to Tenderly’s custom EVM implementation and proprietary chain storage.
- Multiregional traffic routing that helps ensure a fast, reliable connection wherever your dapp users are across the globe.
- 100% accurate gas estimates that you can integrate with our simulation infrastructure to prevent transaction failures in your dapp.
The ability to build custom RPC methods and deploy a serverless dapp backend to optimize your dapp’s onchain performance.
3. Get maximum observability into onchain data
With Tenderly’s exploration and debugging tools, you get a high level of observability into the onchain behavior of your contracts, as well as any other relevant events on Linea.
You can gain a wealth of production insights in easily accessible ways:
- Inspect onchain activity and transaction execution in detail, with information on the asset transfers, involved contracts, emitted events, and state changes.
- Examine and debug failed transactions immediately, going through each line of code and finding the root cause with pinpoint precision.
- Analyze and optimize gas consumption before deployment, with a granular overview of gas usage per function call.
- Validate bug fixes or test different scenarios with transaction simulations to gain insights into the expected results and avoid any unwanted consequences.
4. Monitor and optimize onchain performance
Set up an automated monitoring system to ensure the optimal performance of your dapp onchain. Catch any critical events as soon as they happen and react automatically to prevent critical failures.
- Monitor different onchain events with Tenderly Alerting and stay up to date with your dapp usage on Linea. Don’t let any critical event pass unnoticed – get notifications directly to your team channels, including Telegram, Discord, Slack, email, and PagerDuty.
- Set up automated responses to critical onchain events with Web3 Actions. Have custom code executed automatically as soon as your alerts are triggered. This way, you react quickly in time-sensitive situations.
How to make your dapp stand out on Linea
In addition to helping you optimize your development, testing, and monitoring processes on Linea, Tenderly also enables you to build products that will cut through the noise. In particular, transaction simulations have become a standard in the industry, helping you build a safe, intuitive, and user-friendly product.
So, you can integrate Tenderly’s simulation infrastructure into your wallet, dapp, or DeFi platform to help users:
- Preview transactions and understand their outcomes before sending them onchain.
- Send transactions with confidence and peace of mind, knowing exactly what will happen.
- Avoid any hidden security risks, malicious attempts, or costly mistakes.
- Save valuable resources on gas by preventing failed transactions caused by out-of-gas errors.
- Explore your product’s functionalities and experiment with DeFi strategies in a safe, simulated environment without spending any real money.
Make a real impact on Linea with Tenderly
Thanks to Linea’s implementation of the zkEVM and Tenderly’s full-stack approach to Web3 development, you can innovate on this L2 solution with maximum efficiency, velocity, and confidence.
Additionally, thanks to newly enabled support for ZK chains, Tenderly continues to support you in the growing multichain ecosystem of L2s and appchains, giving you essential full-stack infrastructure and tools across different EVM networks.
Take full advantage of the seamless tooling availability at your disposal and focus on building your product. Set up your development and testing environment to start building right away!
