Odaily Planet Daily News Matter Labs CEO Alex Gluchowski said that Ethereum Layer2 chain Linea decided to stop producing blocks after Velocore was hacked, which highlights the need for Layer2 companies to prioritize decentralization as early as possible. Linea has since resumed producing blocks, but the team decided to stop the zkEVM chain, which shows the need for decentralization at the Ethereum layer. Gluchowski said: "Decentralized sorters are not optional. Everyone committed to the L2 stack must compete to achieve this first." Linea Product Head Declan Fox agreed with this. He also believes that decentralization is necessary, but he emphasized that the network is "solidly" moving towards decentralization, and the time window required is much shorter than many competitors. Declan Fox wrote: "Given that many Rollup frameworks that appeared two years earlier than us have not gone further than us, I am quite satisfied with our progress." (Cointelegraph) Yesterday, Linea released an update on the Velocore incident on the X platform. Linea pointed out that the current network is secure and only affects third-party DApps. Linea suspended the sorter operation when Velocore was attacked because it could not contact the Velocore team temporarily. Linea emphasized: "Most L2s, including Linea, still rely on centralized technical operations that can be used to protect ecosystem participants. Linea's core value is a permissionless and censorship-free environment, so we did not make this decision lightly."