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Ethereum’s Kaleido Collaborates With Polygon for Web3 Adoption
Polygon Edge, a gas-free and easy to access scaling service targeting business users, was unveiled at Ethereum’s annual community gathering in Paris.
By Ian Allison
Updated May 11, 2023, 5:04 p.m. Published Jul 21, 2022, 7:00 a.m.
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Enterprise Ethereum platform Kaleido is teaming up with Polygon, the popular scaling service, to bring the convergence of public and private blockchains a step closer.
Unveiled on Thursday at Ethereum’s annual community gathering in Paris, EthCC, Polygon Edge is intended to offer businesses a user-friendly, cloud-based system connected to the Ethereum mainnet. It will offer companies a range of high to zero gas fee models, depending on the transaction requirements.
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Historically, blue chip companies have looked to create private blockchains to keep control of their data and stay within existing regulations. However, these firms are now being drawn to the transparency of public blockchains, driven by the growing interest in Web3, decentralized finance (DeFi) and non-fungible tokens (NFT).
“We’ve been saying for years the enterprise blockchain segment, that popped up in 2015, would come together with these public ecosystems,” Kaleido founder Steve Cerveny said in an interview. “Now we are seeing enterprise NFTs that are references to digital twins and real world things and all kinds of utility being created and happening now in 2022.”
Polygon is developing a whole range of clever overlay and side channel systems to make the Ethereum blockchain, with its congestion and high gas costs, fast and affordable. But an additional scaling layer is required, which Cerveny calls “app-chains.” This is a kind of dedicated blockchain for an application, he said, that comes with additional choices out of the box when it comes to intuitively bridging Ethereum.
For example, if an enterprise customer wants to set up a stablecoin, that might require high gas fees on the Ethereum mainnet to some extent, Cerveny said. A second tier of transactions could use the Polygon mainnet and would incur a smaller fee, he noted. Then there are a large percentage of use cases and transaction loads that need to be zero gas fees, he added.
“We are bringing along a framework that offers the power to choose. It’s as simple as a different flag on the API to choose a super-special transaction, or something very high volume with a different mix of security and decentralization,” Cerveny said. “Making it that simple to build on really does unlock a lot more zeros in the scaling equation.”
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