The Merge to Erase 60,000 Tonnes of Polygon’s Carbon Footprint
Ethereum’s imminent transition to the proof of stake (PoS) consensus will reverberate throughout the broader ecosystem in a multitude of ways, but it will have a singular impact on the carbon emissions profile of Polygon’s network. Thanks to the work of the Crypto Carbon Ratings Institute (CCRI), we can now share specific numbers on what […]
PIL ZK Tooling is Now Open-Source
Polygon’s zero-knowledge (ZK) tech teams have recently unveiled the cutting-edge Polygon zkEVM, as well as open-source licensing for the revolutionary Plonky2 proving system. We are excited to announce yet another milestone: open-source licensing for our PIL toolkit. We will be licensing the PIL toolkit jointly under the Apache2 and MIT licenses. Developers around the world […]
What do you prefer - Maximum Security or Cheaper Transactions?
The Ethereum scaling solutions space has been heating up lately. Which is a good thing, because Ethereum (and its community) needs scaling as soon as possible. As you know, Polygon's mission is to develop various kinds of Ethereum scaling solutions, from sidechains to rollups (and more). But all these solutions come with trade-offs. There's no […]
Polygon Research: Ethereum Scaling Framework
Overview Since the launch of Ethereum in July 2015, and after the network started seeing considerable network effects, the focus of the Ethereum community and other core developers around the world shifted to scaling. But what is Scaling? As transactions on Ethereum, the global supercomputer rise, users send out txns with higher gas fees in order […]
Introducing Avail by Polygon — a Robust General-Purpose Scalable Data Availability Layer
We are extremely excited to announce Avail — an important component of a completely new way on how future blockchains will work. Avail is a general-purpose, scalable data availability-focused blockchain targeted for standalone chains, sidechains, and off-chain scaling solutions. Avail provides a robust data availability layer by using an extremely secure mathematical primitive — data availability checks using erasure codes […]
The Data Availability Problem
In this post, we delve into the details of the data availability problem and how it can impact scaling on Ethereum. What is the Data Availability problem? The Data Availability (DA) problem: How can peers in a blockchain network be sure that all the data of a newly proposed block is actually available? If the […]
