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Use the Linea faucet

You can find the Linea faucet here, which lists different tokens you can add to your wallet on the Goerli and Linea Goerli testnet.

Set up​

Before you begin, ensure your wallet is configured to use Linea

Get test ETH on Goerli​

To get Goerli ETH, you'll need to:

  1. Navigate to the Linea faucet
  2. Connect your wallet and switch to the Goerli test network (make sure you are showing test networks) goerli eth card
  3. Navigate to the list of faucets linked through the Goerli card
  4. Select a faucet and drip Goerli ETH

Transactions on Linea are much cheaper than Ethereum mainnet. Therefore, 0.2 ETH is enough to execute a basic workflow, but feel free to get as much as you need!

Get test ETH on Linea​

In order to interact with Linea, you'll need to bridge Goerli ETH to Linea.

Get other tokens on Goerli​

  1. Navigate to the Linea faucet
  2. Connect your MetaMask wallet
  3. Select the Goerli network in your MetaMask wallet
  4. Select the desired token from the list of available tokens

If you want to get tokens that are not ETH or USDC, you'll need to lock ETH as a countermeasure for draining liquidity pools.

For example, if you wanted to get 1 USDT on Goerli, you would:

  1. Navigate to the Linea faucet
  2. Connect your MetaMask wallet
  3. Select the Goerli network in your MetaMask wallet
  4. Add the USDT token to MetaMask by selecting Add to MetaMask on the USDT card
  5. Lock 0.0005 ETH by typing in 0.0005 on the USDT card, clicking claim, and confirming and paying the gas for the MetaMask transaction.

To get your ETH back, you would unwrap your USDT in the USDT card to receive ETH in a 2000:1 ratio. For example, to get back 0.0005 ETH, you would need to unwrap 1 USDT by typing in 1 on the USDT card, clicking unwrap, and confirming and paying the gas for the MetaMask transaction.

Get other tokens on Linea​

Selecting the Linea network on the Linea faucet page will show you the available tokens on Linea.

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Not all available tokens will drip directly onto Linea. If they are, you will see a CLAIM button. Otherwise, you will need to navigate to that token's faucet to get it on Goerli and then bridge.

Specific tokens require specific bridges. If you want to bridge from Goerli to Linea, you can find the tokens, contract addresses, and associated bridges here.