Polygon-Edge Overview
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Polygon Edge is a modular and extensible framework for building Ethereum-compatible blockchain networks, sidechains, and general scaling solutions.
Its primary use is to bootstrap a new blockchain network while providing full compatibility with Ethereum smart contracts and transactions. It uses IBFT (Istanbul Byzantine Fault Tolerant) consensus mechanism, supported in two flavours as and .
Polygon Edge also supports communication with multiple blockchain networks, enabling transfers of both and tokens, by utilising the .
Industry standard wallets can be used to interact with Polygon Edge through the endpoints and node operators can perform various actions on the nodes through the protocol.
To find out more about Polygon, visit the .
To get started by running a polygon-edge
network locally, please read: .