Polygon makes new sidechain developer stack opensource, supporting ZK-powered Layer 2s on Ethereum
Polygon’s Chain Development Kit allows developers to freely build, customize and deploy layer 2 chains connected to the wider Ethereum ecosystem. The Ethereum (ETH) ecosystem could welcome a variety of new layer 2 (L2) protocols built on Polygon’s newly open sourced codebase Chain Development Kit, which harnesses zero-knowledge proof (ZK-proof) technology to ensure security and fast finality. Jordi Baylina, technical lead of Polygon Hermez zkEVM, spoke to Cointelegraph exclusively about the new tool set which is publicly available on a Github repository: “The motivating idea is simple: it should be easy and seamless for developers to launch a ZK-powered Layer 2 on Ethereum, tailored to the requirements of their project.” Baylina added that a key aspect is that Polygon CDK enables automatic access to liquidity across all of Polygon’s chain s as well as the wider Ethereum ecosystem, providing “on-demand scale, without fragmenting liquidity". The Ethereum developer pointed to a nu...