Hudson Jameson, a core developer liaison who previously worked with the Ethereum Foundation, the nonprofit organization behind the world’s largest smart contract platform, has joined Polygon.
Jameson Join Polygon
In a tweet on March 16, Jameson, also a committee members of Zcash Open Major Grants (ZOMG), said that they recently started using Polygon, Ethereum sidechain, and layer-2, after a year-long break from February 2022.
This week is my first week on the job @0xPolygon!
I committed to a mental health break for a year from February 2022 to February 2023 and I’m done.
So what am I doing there and why do I think Polygon has a lot of potential despite its problems?
— Hudson Jameson (@hudsonjameson) March 16, 2023
Jameson’s last stint was with Flashbots, a research group working to mitigate the effects of Maximum Extract Value (MEV) on account-based blockchains, particularly Ethereum.
The former Ethereum core developer believes that Polygon has potential. Despite struggling with “health issues,” taking the right medication, and working through therapy, Jameson says he’s better off continuing to work full-time with Polygon.
Before joining, the core developers said that they had been advised on the project and held several meetings with the founder, Mihailo Bjelic, even before the launch.
In the years since its launch, Polygon, Hudson continued, “has grown tremendously and succeeded in many aspects of its goals.” In particular, Polygon does not deviate from its vision of being compatible with Ethereum, acting as an interoperable platform with the Ethereum virtual machine. Polygon is a sidechain and layer-2 platform that enables high transaction processing and low fees. As a sidechain, dApps launched on rails can connect with those on Ethereum.
At Polygon, Jameson will work with the governance team. However, they will also open in other areas, especially in organizations. Here, they will help the sidechain achieve that vision. The developers believe that the sidechain is in line with the value and success of Ethereum.
Scaling Ethereum
In particular, the goal of becoming the scale option for the world’s most active smart contract platform looks set to bear fruit. Although he admits there is no “silver bullet” for scaling, he is committed to increasing the processing speed of public networks.
Scaling is a priority for Ethereum. Vitalik Buterin, co-founder of Ethereum, has, in some cases, reiterated the need to find a lasting solution to this problem. During Circle’s Converge22 conference in September 2022, Buterin toward Jeremy Allaire, CEO of Circle, the issuer of USDC securities, which after joining, the goal is to scale the network.
Before sharding on the proof-of-stake mainnet, Ethereum developers have launched several solutions, including layer-2 scaling options like Arbitrum and Optimism. This general purpose platform bundles transactions off-chain before confirming them on the mainnet, helping scale transaction processing and reduce costs.
DeFi Phone Data show The decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol distributed on Polygon has a total value locked (TVL) of $1.06 billion. Aave, a decentralized money market; Kurva, a decentralized stablecoin exchange; and QuickSwap, a decentralized exchange, are popular dApps on Polygon.