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A pilot program on the Polygon blockchain aims to strengthen the resilience of those impacted by climate change and unpredictable weather patterns. The program uses conditional payments and smart contracts tied to remote sensing data to automatically deploy funds based on predefined conditions triggered by verified data. The initial pilot will support pastoralists in Kenya who have been affected by the region's worst drought in 40 years.

Polygon CDK is being integrated with three new projects: HyperOracle, Reya, and Gateway. HyperOracle will provide programmable oracle solutions for the Polygon protocols, Reya will seamlessly integrate CeFi & DeFi on Polygon, and Gateway will introduce a new execution client (cdk-erigon) for Polygon CDK, making it the first multi-client zkEVM tech stack. These integrations will bring various benefits such as verifiable compute, access to historical onchain data, enhanced capital efficiency, reduced execution risks, and improved throughput for users of the Polygon ecosystem.

Polygon Miden is developing the Miden Compiler, which will allow the rollup to support smart contracts written in Rust and potentially other developer-friendly languages in the future. The compiler has two main uses: as a backend for existing languages to target Miden Assembly, and as a tool to compile WebAssembly code to Miden Assembly. The codebase is divided into Miden HIR, a Wasm frontend, and the midenc command-line tool. The pipeline of the compiler consists of converting programs compiled to .wasm to HIR and then compiling them to Miden Assembly.

The final mint for the Validator Spotlight Season 1 NFTs has been announced, with an extra supply of 100 for each NFT. The links for the NFTs will be announced by the validators on December 25th. Happy holidays!

The final installment of the Validator Spotlight is featuring @girnaarnodes and will go live at 6am PST in the Polygon discord.

Polygon developers are advised to check the Electric Capital database to ensure they are not missed out. This is a reminder to developers in the Polygon Ecosystem to stay up-to-date with their information.

Rally Protocol is sponsoring a 1:1 workshop series to help developers learn web3 mobile development and integrate onchain features on 0xPolygon. The series consists of 4 sessions and participants who complete it will have their first 10,000 transactions sponsored by Rally Protocol. The workshop series begins on January 8th, and interested developers can apply through the provided link.

Polygon Miden is a novel ZK rollup optimized for privacy, parallelization, and client-side proving capabilities. The Miden Node, which has completed a test version, functions by exposing RPC endpoints, verifying user-generated proofs, producing blocks, and updating the state. Transactions in Miden facilitate account state changes and are performed against a single account, enabling parallel execution and asynchronicity. Users have the option to store data publicly or privately, as well as choose who generates the ZK proof. Off-chain storage and client-side proofs enhance privacy and scalability. Miden aims for absolute privacy while addressing the possibility of an experienced observer gaining information.

Polygon launched the zkEVM Mainnet Beta and the Polygon CDK chains in 2023. The developer relations engineer at Polygon Labs, Jarrod Watts, discusses Polygon 2.0 and the future plans for 2024.

The ETH India Global Hackathon recently announced the winners in the DeFi and zkEVM categories. Some of the winners include Descrownomics, ZenPay, PROJECT A.N.T.H.E.M., TokenKrafters, Graphite, Neper Finance, and Finn. These projects address various challenges in the DeFi space, such as trustless transactions, accessible graph computations, and decentralized stablecoin protocols. Additionally, several projects made innovative use of zkEVM, including ZK Bridge, AllowFlow, ZKFaceRecovery, and zkRizz. The hackathon received hundreds of submissions but only a selected few were chosen as winners.