2823 (2023/09/19)
Polygon is a blockchain platform aimed at enabling mass adoption of blockchain technology. It is designed to provide a scalable and user-friendly platform for building and scaling decentralized applications and projects on Ethereum, the world's largest blockchain ecosystem.
Features
Polygon Technology offers several features and services:
- Polygon PoS Live: This is the most widely used Ethereum scaling ecosystem that offers EVM compatibility and an ultimate user experience with fast transactions at near-zero gas fees.
- Polygon zkEVM Live: This feature unlocks Ethereum scalability while maintaining security. It is the first ZK-rollup that offers EVM equivalence with fast transactions at near-zero gas cost.
- Polygon Miden: This feature is coming soon and will allow developers to build advanced dApps with client-side proving. It is the first decentralized rollup that leverages execution proofs of concurrent, local transactions.
- Supernets: This feature, which is also coming soon, will allow developers to build app-chains powered by an industry-leading technology and ecosystem around Polygon.
- Polygon Avail: This feature, which is also coming soon, will increase throughput without sacrificing decentralization. It is a base consensus and data availability layer for chains.
- Polygon ID: This feature allows for the building of trusted and secure relationships between users and dApps, following the principles of self-sovereign identity and privacy by default.
Projects
Several projects have been built on Polygon, including:
- Polygon Copilot: This project paves the way to on-chain AI.
- Polygon zkEVM Beta Mainnet: This is the next chapter of Ethereum Scaling.
- Reddit: The platform has onboarded +6M new members to Web3.
- Threely: This project is making Web3 accessible, intuitive, and fluent to everyone.
- Midnight Society: This project is changing the game by giving gamers digital ownership rights.
- Krowdz: This project is building the future of the music digital economy.
- Cool Cats: This project has 10K+ daily player engagements in their blue-chip NFT ecosystem.
- Artlabs: This project crafts immersive 3D and AR experiences for commerce and metaverse partners.
Environmental Commitment
Polygon is carbon neutral, with plans to be climate positive. The company is leveraging its core blockchain solutions and services to be proactive in the fight against climate change.
Ecosystem
Polygon boasts a large and thriving ecosystem with over 28K total contract creators and 1.17M+ deployed smart contracts. MATIC is the currency of Polygon that enables users to interact with tens of thousands of dApps in the ecosystem.
Community
Polygon has a vibrant community that meets up at hackathons, conferences, and events worldwide. Users can participate in shaping Polygon protocols and explore the modular, flexible framework that provides solutions and supports building a variety of applications.
