By leveraging NEAR DA, Polygon developers can benefit from significant reductions in data availability costs, improving the overall efficiency of their rollups.
The collaboration between the NEAR Foundation and Polygon Labs marks an important milestone in Ethereum’s scaling. By integrating NEAR Data Availability (NEAR DA) with the Polygon Chain Development Kit (CDK), developers using Polygon CDK now have access to NEAR DA’s efficient and highly scalable data availability layer.
NEAR DA plays a crucial role in simplifying Ethereum rollup networks, reducing costs and ensuring high scalability. It provides builders with a reliable and efficient solution for data availability, allowing them to focus on their core transaction logic. Polygon CDK allows developers to create custom Layer 2 chains using zero-knowledge (ZK) technology while maintaining compatibility with Ethereum.
The integration of NEAR DA with Polygon CDK delivers significant benefits to rollup builders. Developers can benefit from significant reductions in data availability costs, improving the overall efficiency of their rollups. It enables developers using the Polygon Chain Development Kit to adopt NEAR’s solution as a key component in their modular data availability solutions.
Illia Polosukhin, co-founder of NEAR Protocol, expressed her thoughts on the collaboration, saying:
“We are excited to make NEAR DA available to Polygon CDK rollup builders and to share the benefits of cost-effective, lightning-fast data availability that is scalable with NEAR’s sharding for the modular Ethereum ecosystem. This is another exciting collaboration between NEAR Foundation and Polygon Labs to drive Chain Abstraction and create better experiences for developers and users.”
The comparison of call data costs between NEAR DA and Ethereum Layer 1 also shows the significant benefits of using NEAR’s solution. When you consider the price for 231 KB of call data, NEAR appears to be a much more cost-effective option. This substantial difference in costs presents an exciting opportunity for developers to realize significant savings while maintaining the high level of security of the Ethereum network. The lower cost of call data on NEAR allows developers to allocate their resources more efficiently, whether building new applications or expanding existing ones.
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Additionally, the integration provides opportunities for developers to build their own rollups to become part of the Polygon ecosystem. This expands the range of options available for scalable data availability solutions.
The collaboration between NEAR and Polygon also builds on their joint research efforts, focusing on the development of zkWASM technology. This technology enables interoperability between the Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) and WebAssembly (WASM) ecosystems, paving the way for improved scalability and multi-chain compatibility.
For teams interested in integrating NEAR DA into their projects, an opportunity awaits as they can now explore its numerous benefits and capabilities by submitting their proposals. This collaboration also represents a significant step forward in the quest for Ethereum scaling and allows developers to build innovative solutions with improved data availability, scalability and at a lower cost.
