Polygon Innovation and Design

Polygon technologies will help developers build in an elastically scalable and unified ecosystem of ZK-powered Layer 2s on Ethereum, where users can create, program and exchange value.

The Polygon 2.0 vision is a unified multichain ecosystem. A web of interoperable ZK-powered Ethereum L2s, with near-instant and atomic L2 L2 transactions, and designed to empower developers to build without limitations. Developers will choose to build dApps, design and launch dedicated application-specific L2 chains, or migrate existing EVM Layer 1 chains to become an L2.

The endgame of Polygon 2.0 is for developers to build in an environment that feels and functions more like the internet. This means a blockchain ecosystem that can scale without limit, seamlessly unified, and backed by the decentralization and security of Ethereum.

Fundamentally, building this web of ZK-powered L2s comes down to one challenge: trustless, off-chain computation. In order to scale Ethereum, one needs to preserve Ethereum’s execution logic while making it more efficient.

The best way to accomplish this goal is through zero-knowledge cryptography as it is capable of providing verifiable proofs that attest to the integrity of off-chain computations. Otherwise, scaling technologies often have to add additional social-economic mechanisms to mediate off-chain computations. The consequence of which is delayed settlement of transactions.

Polygon 2.0 applies the open source, zero-knowledge scaling technology developed at Polygon Labs, and this will allow Ethereum to scale to the limits of the internet.