Polygon 2.0 Milestone

Today marks a major milestone on the Polygon 2.0 journey toward building the Value Layer of the Internet. The upgrade to POL has been initiated on Ethereum mainnet, after months of development, community consultation and a successful testnet launch.

POL, a next-generation hyperproductive token, will power a vast ecosystem of zero knowledge-based Layer 2 chains via a native re-staking protocol that allows POL holders to validate multiple chains and perform multiple roles on each of those chains (sequencing, ZK proof generation, participation in data availability committees, etc.).

The POL upgrade also paves the way for the next series of milestones in the Polygon 2.0 roadmap. That list includes launching a new staking layer to power Polygon L2s, upgrading Polygon PoS to zkRollup, and implementing an advanced, ZK-powered interoperability and shared liquidity protocol for all these L2s. See Polygon 2.0 Vision and PIP-18: Polygon 2.0 Phase 0 - Frontier for more details.

The contract address for the POL token on Ethereum is 0x455e53CBB86018Ac2B8092FdCd39d8444aFFC3F6
Check it out here: https://etherscan.io/address/0x455e53CBB86018Ac2B8092FdCd39d8444aFFC3F6

Together, we can bring a fundamental change to the Internet that enables everyone to equitably access its value.