This is a significant moment for Uniswap, but also a time to address the issue of rising gas fees & how Matic can help Ethereum scale to ensure a bright future for #DeFi.
2/🙅♂️During the UNI issuance event, ETH gas prices reached highs of over 1000 GWEI for a ‘very fast’ transaction (~20 seconds), which caused huge congestion on the network leading to users reportedly spending over $20 per transaction in some instances.
3/🚧As the DeFi revolution continues its impressive upwards trajectory, the trickle-down effect will continue to cause the entire Ethereum ecosystem to experience an increase in transaction costs and slower confirmation times due to worsening network congestion.
4/🚀Matic Network was conceived to combat this very situation. Matic provides a secure, high-performance L2 solution for Ethereum transactions at a rate of 7,200 TPS, with gas fees less than 1/1000th the cost on the Ethereum mainchain (2-3 second transaction for ~$0.000002 USD).
5/👥The future of finance is decentralized, but we need scalable, low-cost infrastructure to remove the barriers of entry relating to cost and speed. Matic is providing the means to allow the DeFi ecosystem on Ethereum to continue its impressive growth and thrive.
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1/ Today, the next technical proposal of Polygon 2.0 is unveiled:
POL, the upgraded token of the Polygon protocol! 💫
POL is the next generation native token, designed to secure, align and grow the Polygon ecosystem.
Watch the video to get an idea how cool it is, then 🧵
2/ POL is a proposed technical upgrade of MATIC.
If the community reaches consensus to adopt it, MATIC holders will have their tokens upgraded to POL in 1:1 ratio. There will never be two native tokens.
Now onto the exciting stuff. A quick story on what makes POL special.. 💫🤓
3/ Bitcoin's BTC, although important and successful, is an unproductive token — its holders can not participate in the protocol and be rewarded for that.
Ethereum’s ETH is a productive token — holders can become validators of the Ethereum blockchain and get ETH rewards and fees.
1/ Today, we are excited to propose the Polygon 2.0 architecture, designed to provide unlimited scalability and unified liquidity, thus transforming Polygon into the Value Layer of the Internet!
What are these layers and what is their role? Let's dive in...
3/ The Staking Layer is a PoS-based protocol which leverages Polygon’s native token to provide "out-of-the-box" decentralization to participating Polygon chains.
It achieves that via a common, highly decentralized validator pool and an in-built restaking model.
In the era of ZK-powered scaling, navigating the vast ecosystem of dApps #onPolygon can become a challenge without a handy guide.
Polygon Copilot, currently in Beta, provides quick responses, personalized onboarding experiences, code snippets, valuable insights, and analytics
Whether you're coding your first dApp, validating transactions, scouting your next NFT collection, or exploring the decentralized landscape, choose from three personas to personalize the experience:
2/ The upgrade would demonstrate the caliber of Polygon's ZK technology and introduce major benefits to users and devs.
If the proposal passes, Polygon PoS and its $2B in assets, millions of users, and thousands of apps would seamlessly migrate to this bleeding-edge technology.
3/ The chain would continue to be operated by the existing $MATIC-staked validators, who would then be running a first-of-its-kind, decentralized sequencer, and data availability network.
If the proposal is accepted, the upgrade could go live on mainnet by the end of Q1 2024.