Polygon Labs announced connected Dec. 15 that it had ended its contributions to Polygon Edge, a level leveraged by respective blockchain projects.
The institution said that it would displacement its absorption to Polygon CDK, a successor solution that aims to nutrient a unified layer-2 ecosystem with interoperability and a azygous excavation of liquidity. It stressed Polygon CDK’s increasing popularity, stating that it is “quickly becoming the go-to app-chain solution” for galore projects.
The institution noted that Polygon Edge is an open-source task that the assemblage tin develop. However, it did not marque it wide whether the task has capable assemblage backing to past isolated from its ain contributions.
Polygon suggested that galore projects that utilized Edge volition apt migrate to Polygon CDK. It listed 15 projects committed to gathering connected its CDK, including but not constricted to the crypto speech OKX, the gaming-focused concatenation Immutable, the crypto outgo and paper level Wirex, and the e-commerce level Flipkart.
Dogechain has not announced migration plans
One task that has not confirmed migration plans is Dogechain (DC), which aims to service arsenic a layer-2 web for Dogecoin (DOGE).
Dogechain’s whitepaper described plans to usage Polygon Edge, and a caller Aug. 31 blog station confirms that the mainnet is presently built connected Edge. Dogechain’s GitHub page besides indicates that the task is forked from Polygon Edge.
Though Dogechain has a tiny marketplace headdress of $29 million, it is among the astir recognizable projects to usage Polygon Edge. Dogechain has attracted attraction connected societal media owed to the popularity of the “doge” meme. It has besides earned criticism from Dogecoin developers, who person stressed that Dogechain has nary authoritative ties to the halfway task and called DC a “knockoff token.”
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