Neil Knapp

When Neura began, the focus was simple: fix liquidity at the base layer and create a more rewarding, lasting experience for builders and users alike. DeFi had a problem everyone could see. Billions were spent on emissions to attract short-term liquidity, but the moment rewards ended, that value disappeared, moving on to the next hot protocol. It was clear this model wasn’t sustainable. Our goal was to build stronger economics, creating yield tied to real infrastructure revenue rather than token emissions. That work laid the foundation. And while it remains central to our mission, building it showed us something larger. With experience running global infrastructure, our team noticed that a stable financial layer is only one part of the puzzle. The deeper problem is that global financial infrastructure itself is outdated: slow, expensive, and inaccessible. Stablecoins have already proven themselves as the new currency of digital finance to solve many of these problems, and institutions are seeing their benefits in real time as governments like the US encourage them to innovate. But what they lack is infrastructure built specifically for them with the performance required to truly become the next generation of payment rails. This pushed us to ask a new question: what if solving liquidity was only the first step? What if we could build the next stack for finance itself, injecting it with hardwired speed, programmability, and yield benefits far beyond current solutions? That question reshaped our mission. What began as a DeFi-first chain is now evolving into something bigger: a sovereign stack built for stablecoins and the future of global finance. It's too early to say more. In the weeks ahead, we’ll share the full vision and the roadmap. For now, the path is clear. Neura’s mission is expanding. What started as a solution for DeFi liquidity is becoming the foundation for sovereign finance. The next chapter begins soon.

🏛️ Introducing: Linera Testnet Archimedes Today, we’re excited to launch the first phase of our testnet. This marks a major milestone in decentralizing the infrastructure of The Real-Time Blockchain. ⛓️ 🧵↓