Polygon's Strategy: Building the Foundation
Polygon has executed a surgical strategy this year, focusing on consistent delivery over hype. Their key components—AggLayer, CDK, and Rio upgrades—are solving major industry problems: liquidity silos, security fragmentation, and slow finality.
The AggLayer is the centerpiece, creating a unified liquidity pool and settlement layer for all CDK-based chains. This innovation enables seamless asset movement without bridges, making the "multichain future" functional.
AggLayer: Unified liquidity and interoperability.
CDK: Plug-and-play framework for building zk-rollups.
Rio: Near-instant finality for fast applications.
Polygon's goal isn't to compete for users, but to build the essential infrastructure for the entire industry. By connecting all CDK-powered chains via AggLayer, the ecosystem functions as a single global engine for settlement and liquidity. Adoption by major players like OKX’s X Layer and Immutable zkEVM demonstrates this reality. The next phase of crypto isn't about the fastest chain, but about building the system everyone depends on.
