Polygon Labs’ imaginative and prescient of an interconnected layer 2 Ethereum ecosystem powered by zero-knowledge cryptography begins in earnest following three inaugural enchancment proposals that can start the transition to Polygon 2.0.

The scaling know-how agency unveiled Polygon 2.0 in June 2023, outlining plans for a scaling ecosystem made up of 4 protocol layers. The staking, interop, execution and proving layers all play a task in creating an interconnected ecosystem of chains that allow quick worth switch and data sharing.

Polygon co-founder Sandeep Nailwal lately unpacked how the ecosystem goals to develop into the worth layer of the web through the use of zero-knowledge know-how to supply low payment, excessive throughput efficiency to the broader Ethereum ecosystem.

Polygon launched three Polygon Enchancment Proposals (PIPs) on Sept. 14 for group consideration and voting which can be earmarked to start going down within the remaining quarter of 2023.

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The PIPs define technical particulars for “Section 0” of the institution of a community of interconnected ZK-powered layer 2 chains that scale Ethereum. This features a proposal for the transition and specs that can see MATIC tokens develop into SOL tokens, which is able to develop into Polygon Proof-of-Stake (PoS) protocol’s native token.

PIP-17 will embrace the initiation of the improve from MATIC to POL. This consists of its transition to POL because the native fuel token and staking token for the Polygon ecosystem, in addition to the launch of the staking layer and migration of Polygon public chains.

PIP-18 consists of the technical description of POL tokens in addition to accompanying contracts that can deal with emission and token migrations. POL tokens might be migrated at a one-to-one ratio from present MATIC tokens. The PIP notes an preliminary provide of 10 billion and yearly emission of two% equally distributed between validator staking rewards and a group treasury.

Lastly, PIP-19 proposes the replace of the native fuel token on Polygon PoS from MATIC to POL whereas guaranteeing most backwards compatibility.

Polygon’s announcement notes that PIP-19 won’t change contracts on Polygon PoS whereas the properties of the protocols native token won’t change both. Nonetheless contracts on Ethereum which can be awaiting MATIC from the native MATIC bridge could also be affected by the improve.

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