Polygon 2.0: A Short History

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Jordi: One of my favorite memories of a ETH CC, Mahalo was in 2021. And we were just grabbing some beers and I remember you get a phone call and you jump up from the table and go take this phone call for five to ten minutes. And then like six weeks, eight weeks later, Polygon announces the acquisition of Hermes,. Later turned her into Polygon Hermes, which is of course, Jordi's project. Then next EC a year later was the announcement of Polygon ZK EVM. And then now here we are at the Zk EVM Polygon 2.0 stack.

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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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

----- 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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