Polygon launched the Agglayer Breakout program to support agglayer and Polygon Proof-of-Stake (POS) ecosystem projects in a boost for POL token stakers.
The program combines incubation and community -focused funds to help the founders develop and launch projects, with a successful “graduate” airdropping 5% -15% of their native token supply to POL stakers and integration with the Agglayer network.
It provides hands-on support from polygon labs, funding, and access to ecosystem resources to help projects grow rapidly and connect Agglayer’s unified base and liquidity.
Agglayer, short for the integration layer -together, can be considered as a web of networks that seem to be a single chain to a user. It relies on the proof that zero-knowledge (ZK), a type of cryptography that allows one party to prove one piece of information with another without sharing the details.
For example, one can prove to a blockchain that they have enough funds to pay someone else without showing their wallet balance. The network proves the payment, but the financial details remain private. This is not the same as regular blockchains or banking networks showing details.
This makes it possible to develop sophisticated financial and gaming applications, among others, which allows the development of an unbearable ecosystem (as public details can attract actors to threats).
Among the first cohorts of the breakout program were the Privado ID, a ZK-based identification framework, which fully graduated and intended to be a neat 5% of its token supply to POL stakers. Miden, a ZK-centric chain led by a former Facebook blockchain alum, is closely graduation and airdrop 10% of its tokens. A defi chain, still on stealth, is set to airdrop 15%.
These airdrops provide pol stakers new tokens, increasing POL utility as more chain launch. Snapshots to determine the eligibility of AirDrop will start next week, and stakers can participate by staking POL until Wednesday.
