Polygon’s Endgame: Polygon 2.0 with Sandeep Nailwal & Mihailo Bjelic
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🗓️ 25 July 2023
⏱️ 74 minutes
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Summary
Today on the show we welcome back Sandeep and Mihalo, the Co-Founders of Polygon.
Polygon is one of the most used chains in crypto. That in itself is a massive accomplishment. However, there’s been criticism of Polygon in the past, that it’s “just a sidechain.” That it’s not “Ethereum aligned.” The release of Polygon 2.0 will silence these critics. Tune in to understand why.
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TIMESTAMPS
0:00 Intro
6:35 EthCC
11:35 Polygon 2.0
20:00 PoS to zkEVM
33:50 What Will Users Have To Do?
37:10 Validiums & Wen Upgrade?
43:00 How $MATIC is Evolving?
47:00 The Evolution of Crypto Networks
48:50 $MATIC to $POL
50:27 Work Token
53:14 Why $POL Naming?
54:20 The Governance Framework
59:50 Is This Polygon’s Endgame?
1:08:48 zkSupernets
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RESOURCES
Polygon Roadmap
https://polygon.technology/roadmap
Polygon PoS to a zkEVM - https://twitter.com/0xPolygonLabs/status/1671208777784209441
The Stack
https://twitter.com/0xPolygonLabs/status/1668312616459030528
The Token
https://twitter.com/0xPolygonLabs/status/1679427540790681600
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| 0:00.0 | Thankless Nation today, we've got an episode for you with the founders of Polygon. |
| 0:08.0 | We're talking about the Polygon Endgame. |
| 0:10.5 | This release, this software release, this upgrade that Polygon is doing. |
| 0:14.2 | They call it Polygon 2.0. |
| 0:16.7 | Why is this important? |
| 0:17.7 | Well, Polygon is one of the most used chains in crypto. |
| 0:21.6 | And I think that in itself is a massive accomplishment. |
| 0:24.6 | There's also been some criticism of Polygon in the past, some critiques that it's just |
| 0:28.4 | a side chain. |
| 0:29.4 | And maybe it doesn't have the Ethereum alignment that the marketing says it does. |
| 0:34.1 | I think the release of Polygon 2.0 will silence the critics. |
| 0:38.3 | There's a lot of decentralization going on in today's conversation, including a path forward |
| 0:43.8 | for the Polygon proof of stake chain. |
| 0:45.7 | A few things we talk about, number one, how Polygon is scaling Ethereum using ZK technology. |
| 0:51.1 | Number two, a promise Polygon made to the community to upgrade the Polygon proof of |
| 0:55.2 | stake chain and change it to a roll-up, more specifically, a validium. |
| 0:59.8 | We'll talk about what they're doing there. |
| 1:01.7 | Number three, we'll talk about Polygon's big token upgrade. |
| 1:04.4 | What they're doing with the Matic token, they're converting it to even more of a work-token. |
| 1:09.0 | Interesting discussion follows there. |
| 1:10.2 | They don't see Matic being a money token. |
| 1:13.4 | And number four, we conclude with what is going on with Layer 2's. |
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