3. Solution to Ethereum Scaling
Polygon's Primary Offering - Hybrid Plasma POS Sidechains
• Blazing Fast
• Secure
• Decentralised
In 2017, when Matic Network (now Polygon) was founded, the primary thought process around scaling was Plasma
4. Problem Statement
EVER CHANGING L2 LANDSCAPE
New innovations in scaling are being constantly
developed. More may be created in the future
NO ONE-SIZE-FITS-ALL SCALING SOLUTION
Different projects have different needs, multiple
solutions will likely coexist
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COMPETITORS POACHING MARKET SHARE FROM
ETHEREUM
Never ending list of 'Ethereum Killers' being developed
due to scalability and cost concerns of Ethereum
NO FORMALISED FRAMEWORK THAT OFFERS MULTIPLE
SOLUTIONS
Mainly forks of popular implementations, scattered and
biased information
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5. The Polygon Solution
TWO MAJOR TYPES OF SOLUTIONS
• Secured chains (“L2 Aggregator”)
• zkRollups
• Optimistic Rollups
• Shared security chains
• Plasma etc.
• Stand alone chains (Sidechains)
INTEROPERABILITY PROTOCOL
SWISS-ARMY-KNIFE FOR ETHEREUM SCALING
AND INFRA DEVELOPMENT
TURNS ETHEREUM INTO A FULLY-FLEDGED
MULTI-CHAIN SYSTEM (“POLKADOT ON
ETHEREUM”)
6. FAST EMERGING AS THE DE-FACTO PLATFORM FOR NFT'S, GAMING & DEFI
LARGE, EXPONENTIALLY GROWING DEVELOPER COMMUNITY ; TWITTER 100K+ ; DISCORD 40K+
ONE OF THE FASTEST GROWING DAPP PLATFORMS FOR ETHEREUM SCALING & DEVELOPMENT
STELLAR CLIENTELE UTILISING POLYGON FOR SCALABILITY, IMPROVED UX
Power of Polygon
2s block time
Finality on Mainchain
EVM Compatible
ERC Style Assets
Focus on high user
experience
Assets secured on
Ethereum
100+ $400M+ 160K+
dApps onboarded TVL Locked Daily Transactions
$0.00004
Avg. Txn. Cost
9. Low transaction fees lead to more trades and greater adoption
trades are confirmed within seconds leading to better consumer
experience
DeFi + Web 3
EasyFi
Layer 2 DeFi Lending protocol for digital
assets. Taking a strong community-
oriented governance approach with
$EASY
Polymarket
Information Markets platform. Harnessing the
power of free markets to demystify the real
world events that matter most to you
Quickswap
Next-gen Layer 2 DEX. Trade at
lightning-fast speeds with near-zero gas
fees
SportX
Peer-to-peer sports betting app,
where users set their own odds and
bet against other users
Rubic Finance
Multichain DeFi ecosystem, which
features cross-chain, P2P, and instant
swaps across: Ethereum, Binance Smart
Chain & Polygon blockchains
Reef Finance
The gateway to DeFi through Liquidity
and Protocol Aggregation, Proprietary
Analytics, and Multi-Chain Accessibility
Router Protocol
Efficient Cross-chain liquidity routing
10. High TPS gives gamers a mainstream-gaming like
experience. Low cost of minting & trading NFTs allows
devs to create richer in-game experiences
Gaming + NFTs
Neon District
Cyberpunk role-playing adventure and
flagship game developed by Blockade
Games
Aavegotchi
DeFi-focused non-fungible token that
runs on the Aave protocol. Aavegotchis
are game avatars that can be used as DeFi
collateral to earn staking rewards
Decentral Games
First community-owned, Metaverse casino.
Provably fair game logic, non-custodial
accounts, immediate payouts
Mega Cryptopolis
City builder strategy game dApp where
every item is a n ERC-721 token that can
be traded on the open market
ZED RUN
provably fair digital horse racing
game built on blockchain technology
OpenSea
Largest NFT marketplace
ChainGuardians
Cryptocurrency-meets-anime-themed
blockchain collectible game powered by
non-fungible tokens
Cometh
DeFi powered game with yield
generating NFT. Get spaceships,
explore the galaxy, earn tokens
11. Why Devs love Polygon
Backward Compatibility: No new skills required to port over to Polygon POS chain from Ethereum – Use the tools you are
already familiar with
Already have a dapp: Use Polygon as a faster transaction layer
Deposit assets from
root chain to Polygon
Transfer assets
between accounts on
polygon
Withdraw assets from
Polygon on to root
chain.