Polymer: A New Era for Interoperability...on Ethereum!

The future is multi-chain, scalable and modular. However, while Cosmos’ IBC set the standard for interoperability, Ethereum’s L2 shift revealed a huge problem of liquidity fragmentation across the many rollups fighting for market share. Polymer aims to bridge the two ecosystems and bring the best of both worlds: Ethereum’s native liquidity and Cosmos’ interoperability, through a modular framework using the OP-stack and IBC.

Topics:

• Bo’s background and the evolution of Polymer
• Scaling limits of L1s vs. L2s
• The ‘endgame’ for rollup frameworks
• IBC
• Interoperability & network topology: 70’s/80’s vs. blockchains
• Polymer hub
• Monomer framework
• Pre-confirmation & finality trade-offs
• Cross-rollup interoperability
• Building appchains with Monomer
• Modularity

Links:

• Polymer Labs on Twitter