New York City, New York, November 11th, 2024,
Chainwire
Polymer Labs has
officially launched Polymer Hub, a real-time interoperability
protocol for connecting all Ethereum rollups. By streaming
messages, states, and logs over IBC primitives (equivalent to
Web2’s TCP/IP), Polymer Hub verifies and stores the headers of all
connected rollups, allowing applications to prove any arbitrary
state across rollups at vastly reduced overhead.
Rollup/L2 ecosystems have historically
connected only within their own walled gardens; with Polymer,
however, rollups can now communicate across ecosystems and
coordinate as fast as they can produce blocks. The protocol offers
significant improvements in cross-chain communication latency,
bandwidth, and cost for all on-chain primitives compared to
existing solutions.
Polymer aims to make cross-chain
interoperability as fast, efficient, and affordable as blockspace
itself, enabling Ethereum applications to scale to the next million
users.
Increase Bandwidth Reduce
Latency
Real-time, high-throughput rollups are right around the corner,
but existing interoperability protocols (point-to-point and
hub-and-spoke models) were not designed to support dense network
traffic across hundreds of rollups. According to the team, existing
solutions are too slow and expensive for the next generation of
applications on Ethereum. As we enter this new era,
interoperability solutions must complement their speed and
efficiency. Real-time apps require real-time interoperability.
Polymer aims to build the fastest and
most efficient interoperability protocol for next-generation
rollups like MegaETH. The Hub passes messages in real-time via
sequencer pre-confirmations, ensuring cross-chain communication
latency can keep up with millisecond block times of these rollups.
Polymer also leverages EigenDA to scale cross-rollup bandwidth to
facilitate data-intensive use cases on-chain.
"Real-timeness, the ability to react to inputs with
ultra-low latency at massive scale, will enable truly
ground-breaking decentralized applications. Readying the infra
stack for this revolution will be a joint effort, in which
real-time interoperability from Polymer will be crucial." -
Lei Yang (Cofounder & CTO MegaETH)
Various technologies like shared
sequencers and ecosystem-native interoperability intra-nets have
fragmented Ethereum into rollup clusters; these clusters, however,
can leverage Polymer Hub’s one-to-all architecture to become
interoperable with each other within minutes, rather than months.
Polymer Hub is also the first interoperability solution to offer
re-org protection. This helps enable token bridges and solver
networks to safely settle cross-chain transactions in milliseconds
and automatically revert them if they deviate from Ethereum’s L1
history.
Looking Ahead
The next generation of on-chain
applications will closely follow the architecture of cloud apps:
rollups are the new microservices, AVSs are the new infrastructure
services. To enable horizontal scaling on-chain, cross-chain
infrastructure must be low-latency, high-bandwidth, and affordably
scalable.
The Polymer team seeks to improve
interoperability performance in order to enable competitive, novel
categories of applications, such as high throughput e-commerce and
ride-sharing, to be built on-chain.
"Building interoperable applications that don’t trade
off cost or latency is a requirement to make crypto usable again.
At scale, this connective layer needs to be as robust and secure as
the Ethereum base layer itself, and Polymer has been uncompromising
in achieving this vision." - Vikram Arun (Cofounder &
CEO Superform Labs)
Starting with the OP stack, Polymer plans to bring real-time
interoperability to all rollup ecosystems on Ethereum—enabling
swift and cost-effective scaling for applications in the near
future.
Developers interested in trying Polymer Hub's mainnet can find
more information on Polymer Lab's website,
and by following Polymer on X (@Polymer_Labs).
About
Polymer Labs provides
real-time, high-throughput interoperability for Ethereum rollups.
Polymer lays foundational network infrastructure enabling the next
generation of internet-scale apps like Uber to be built
on-chain.
Contacts
Marketing Lead
Harry Lam
Polymer Labs
hlam@polymerlabs.org