New York, New York, November 11, 2024, Chainwire
Polymer Labs has officially launched Polymer Hub, a real-time interoperability protocol for connecting all rollups. By streaming messages, status, and logs over IBC primitives (the TCP/IP equivalent of Web2), Polymer Hub validates and stores the headers of all linked statements, allowing applications to check any state within the statements with significantly reduced overhead.
Rollup/L2 ecosystems have historically only connected within their own walled gardens; However, with Polymer, rollups can now communicate across ecosystems and coordinate activities as quickly as they can create blocks. The protocol offers significant improvements in latency, throughput, and cross-chain communication costs for all primitives on the chain compared to existing solutions.
Polymer’s goal is to make cross-chain interoperability as quick, effective, and affordable as the blockchain itself, enabling Ethereum applications to scale to the next million users.
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High-throughput real-time aggregates are just around the corner, but existing interoperability protocols (point-to-point and hub-and-spoke models) are not designed to handle dense network traffic in hundreds of aggregates. According to the team, existing solutions are too sluggish and costly for next-generation applications on Ethereum. As we enter a recent era, interoperability solutions must complement each other with speed and efficiency. Real-time applications require real-time interoperability.
Polymer’s goal is to build the fastest and most effective interoperability protocol for next-generation rollups such as MegaETH. The hub relays messages in real time using sequencer pre-acknowledgements, ensuring cross-chain communication latencies keep pace with the millisecond block times of these sets. Polymer also leverages EigenDA to scale cross-rollup bandwidth to facilitate on-chain data-intensive exploit cases.
“Real-time temporality, the ability to respond to inputs with very low latency at massive scale, will enable truly groundbreaking decentralized applications. Preparing infrastructure for this revolution will be a collaborative effort, where Polymer’s real-time interoperability will be key.” – Lei Yang (Co-founder and CTO of MegaETH)
Various technologies such as shared sequencers and interoperability intranets native to the ecosystem have divided Ethereum into collective clusters; however, these clusters can leverage Polymer Hub’s one-to-all architecture to become interoperable in minutes rather than months. Polymer Hub is also the first interoperability solution offering protection against reorganization. This helps token bridges and solver networks securely settle cross-chain transactions within milliseconds and automatically revert them if they deviate from Ethereum’s L1 history.
Looking to the future
The next generation of on-chain applications will closely mimic the architecture of cloud applications: rollups are the recent microservices, AVS are the recent infrastructure services. To enable on-chain horizontal scaling, the cross-chain infrastructure must be low-latency, high-throughput, and inexpensively scalable.
The Polymer team seeks to improve interoperability performance to enable competitive, novel application categories on-chain, such as high-bandwidth e-commerce and ride-sharing.
“Building interoperable applications that do not require cost and latency trade-offs is a requirement to make cryptocurrencies usable again. At this scale, the connective layer must be as resilient and secure as the Ethereum base layer itself, and Polymer has uncompromisingly achieved this vision.” – Vikram Arun (Co-founder and CEO of Superform Labs)
Starting with the OP stack, Polymer plans to bring real-time interoperability to all aggregate ecosystems on Ethereum, enabling applications to scale quickly and cost-effectively in the near future.
Developers interested in trying out the Polymer Hub mainnet can find more information on the Polymer Lab website and by following Polymer on X (@Polymer_Labs).
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CommunicationCo-founderPeter KimPolymer Laboratoriespeter@polymerlabs.orgMarketing leaderHarry LamPolymer Laboratorieshlam@polymerlabs.org
