Hudson Jameson, a senior development liaison who previously worked with the Ethereum Foundation, the nonprofit behind the world’s largest smart contracting platform, has joined Polygon.
Jameson joins the range
In a March 16 tweet, Jameson, also committee member of Zcash Open Major Grants (ZOMG), said he recently started with Polygon, an Ethereum sidechain, and layer 2, after taking a year-long break from February 2022.
This week is my first week working for @0xPolygon!
I committed to taking a one year mental health break from February 2022 to February 2023 and have completed it.
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 reduce the effects of maximum withdrawable value (MEV) on account-based blockchains, primarily Ethereum.
The former Ethereum core developer believes that Polygon has potential. Despite battling “health issues,” taking medications correctly and working with therapists, Jameson says he’s in a better position to continue working full-time with Polygon.
Before joining, the core developer said he had been advising on the project and had several meetings with the co-founder, Mihailo Bjelic, even before its launch.
Over the years since its launch, Polygon, Hudson continues, “has grown tremendously and has succeeded in many aspects of its goals.” In particular, Polygon did not deviate from its vision of being Ethereum-compatible, acting as an interoperable platform with the Ethereum virtual machine. Polygon is a layer 2 and sidechain platform that enables high transaction throughput and low fees. Like a sidechain, the dApps that launch in your lane can connect with those on Ethereum.
At Polygon, Jameson will work with the governance team. Still, he will also be open in other areas, especially organization. Here, he says that he will help the sidechain achieve its vision. The developer is convinced that the sidechain is aligned with the values and success of Ethereum.
Scaling Ethereum
Specifically, its goal of being a scaling option for the world’s most active smart contracting platform appears to be paying off. While acknowledging that there is no silver bullet for scaling, they are committed to improving throughput speeds on the public network.
Scaling is a priority for Ethereum. Vitalik Buterin, the co-founder of Ethereum, has repeatedly reiterated the need to find a lasting solution to this problem. During Circle’s Converge22 conference in September 2022, Buterin said Jeremy Allaire, the CEO of Circle, the issuer of USDC, that after the merger, the goal would be to scale the network.
Before sharding on the proof-of-stake mainnet, Ethereum developers have implemented several solutions, including Layer 2 scaling options like Arbitrum and Optimism. These general-purpose platforms bundle transactions off-chain before confirming them on the mainnet, helping to scale transaction processing and lower fees.
DeFi Call data shows The decentralized finance (DeFi) protocols implemented on Polygon have a total value locked (TVL) of $1.06 billion. Aave, a decentralized money market; Curve, a decentralized stablecoin exchange; and QuickSwap, a decentralized exchange, are popular dApps on Polygon.
