Linear is a decentralized asset trading protocol created and developed by Drey Ng, co-founder and director of Liquefy, a company dedicated to providing solutions based on blockchain technology. Linear is designed to enable users to trade, issue, and manage several synthetic assets via collateral, including cryptocurrency, commodities, gold, oil, and foreign exchange.

According to the development team, Linear enables investors to trade easily and rapidly, obtain assets at fair market values, and achieve significant cost savings. Linear’s ecosystem consists of the following:

• Linear Buildr: A decentralized program that enables the creation and management of synthetic assets.
• Linear exchange: A market that facilitates the creation of liquidity for synthetic assets.
• LinearDao: A community of administrators dedicated to the management of Linear’s ecology.
• Linear Swap: A customized swap function reduces gas costs and enables the exchange of Linear Tokens for other blockchain-based currencies.