Polygon

The Aragon OSx CLI speeds up plugin development for Polygon, making it easier to enable custom functionality for your DAO.

Polygon has introduced the new-and-improved Polygon PoS v1 Testing Toolkit, built on top of Express-CLI. The toolkit aims to make Polygon PoS devnet management easier by allowing users to create devnets, test new features, and simplify the process of spinning up testnet and mainnet nodes. Its key objectives are highly customizable deployment, efficient monitoring & testing, and reduced time-to-market.

The G7 DAO team has successfully completed the Game7 report, showcasing their achievements in handling massive data. The tech stack of Immutable and Polygon is proving to be a success and is expected to drive the future of game development in both ecosystems.

Polygon ID Release 5 introduces a new on-chain issuer, improvements in the issuer node, and a credentials marketplace. The on-chain issuer allows the creation of credentials from both on- and off-chain sources. The issuer node now has enhanced installation and usability, including accessibility on major Cloud Marketplaces and the option to store the revocation status on-chain. The credentials marketplace makes it easier for developers to discover and select credentials and their issuing authorities.

Polygon Labs and NEAR Foundation are partnering to develop a zero-knowledge (ZK) prover for Wasm blockchains, enabling closer integration with the Ethereum ecosystem. The zkWasm prover will enhance customizability for developers using Polygon CDK, expanding options for building custom blockchains and accessing liquidity. This collaboration aims to improve scalability and decentralization by generating zero-knowledge proofs for native Wasm runtime execution.

The Miden team will be participating in several speaking events at @efDevConnect. Some of the topics include General Purpose vs Custom VMs, Flavors of Account Abstraction, The future of blockchains, Combining private & public state on L2s, Future of blockchain: L1s, L2s, side chains, Custom gates and co-processors in Miden VM, Panel discussion, Recursive Verification, AirScript: a DSL for writing AIR constraints, and Privacy workshop.

Polygon Labs is currently in Turkey to connect with Ethereum's builders, researchers, founders, and community members. They will be mentoring at hackathons, discussing the rollout of Polygon 2.0, sharing updates on Polygon Miden, and educating developers on Polygon CDK. The event will feature speakers such as Sandeep Nailwal, Jordi Baylina, Bobbin Threadbare, and Hudson Jameson. Various events will take place from November 10th to November 19th, including ZK Hack Istanbul, TrustX 2023, The Responsible Revolution, ETH Infra Day, Infra Gardens Istanbul, ETHGlobal Pragma Istanbul, 0xPARC, Privacy Scaling's Progcrypto, and ETHGlobal Istanbul.

Polygon Village reminder to claim the Builder - Polygon Village role in the designated channel for founders, builders, and project leaders. This role provides access to additional channels for discussions, inquiries, suggestions, project showcase, and self-introduction.

Polygon Labs has announced that Polygon Connect will be held in Bengaluru on December 7th. Interested participants are encouraged to reserve their spots as there are only 4 weeks left.

During Hong Kong FinTech Week, several notable events took place, including the drop of exclusive NFTs by The Aftermint and the Hong Kong Monetary Authority, the prototyping of a DID solution by HSBC using Polygon, and the empowerment of builders through a hackathon by Animoca Brands, AWS, and Polygon Labs. Additionally, an enablement program was introduced by Cyberport, AWS, and Polygon Labs, and Sandeep Nailwal spoke at CVCF2023.