Thread by @0xPolygon

1/9 Beloved @0xPolygon & Ethereum family and dear crypto community,

Today, we are proud and excited to announce Polygon SDK! 🔥🎉

Polygon SDK is an important milestone for Polygon and a major step towards Multi-chain Ethereum! 🦄💫

Keep reading to learn more...

2/9 Our vision is for Polygon SDK to effectively transform Ethereum into a full-fledged multi-chain system (aka Internet of Blockchains). 🕸️⛓️

By doing this, it will at the same time further establish Polygon as the leading scaling and infrastructure platform of Ethereum. 💫

3/9 A little known fact is that Ethereum is already the biggest multi-chain in the world!

It has organically developed and grew to host a multitude of chains that are all adding value to its ecosystem:

🔘 150+ EVM chains;
🔘 Hundreds of enterprise chains;
🔘 Dozens of L2s.

4/9 Organic innovation is the beauty and strength of Ethereum, but its side effect is an unstructured, hard to navigate scaling/infra landscape.

Polygon SDK aims to introduce structure to the ecosystem and provide a framework for Multi-chain Ethereum to grow further and faster.

5/9 Multi-chain Ethereum will be akin to other popular multi-chains (Polkadot, Cosmos etc), but with some major upsides:

🔘 Ability to benefit from Ethereum’s network effects;
🔘 Higher security (Polygon chains can inherit security from Ethereum)
🔘 More flexible and powerful.

6/9 Polygon SDK aims to support building two major types of solutions:

1⃣ Stand-alone chains: sidechains, enterprise chains etc.
2⃣ Secured chains aka L2s: Optimistic Rollups, zkRollups etc.

This release supports stand-alone chains, L2s will be introduced in future releases.

7/9 Polygon SDK architecture follows two main design concepts:

🔘 Ethereum-compatibility;
🔘 Modularity.

It is materialized through pluggable modules, grouped into three layers:

🔘 Networking (libp2p, devp2p etc);
🔘 Consensus (Istanbul, HotStuff etc);
🔘 Execution (EVM etc).

8/9 This first public beta release supports an initial set of modules and, as mentioned, stand-alone chains only.

In the future we will be introducing:
🔘 L2 support;
🔘 More consensus algorithms;
🔘 Inter-chain/bridging modules;
🔘 Plugin system;
🔘 Enterprise modules etc.

9/9 Build your Polygon chain today: github.com/0xPolygon/poly… or read the post below for more details and resources.

We are very excited to see Polygon SDK in the wild, helping great projects succeed and making @0xPolygon and Ethereum stronger! 🦄💫🔥

blog.polygon.technology/announcing-pol…