AggLayer v0.2 (Alpha) Going Live on Mainnet in <48H - But What This Version Stages Mean for Polygon & Crypto Developments?
As you can see in the following Tweet, Agglayer account just announced that Agglayer v0.2 will go live on Mainnet in less than 48 hours. According to the tweet, this upgrade will introduce the pessimistic proof that is a critical security feature that ensures safe cross chain interactions. In other words, stronger security, fewer exploits and a more trust minimized ecosystem.
As I have said before in other posts regarding AggLayer this is a big step forward for Polygon ecosystem and it is one of the important milestones on Polygon's roadmap.
I am not going to repeat myself again about why AggLayer is important, etc. so today we are going focus on briefly learning a more technical stuff that everybody should know and understand so you can "calculate" the times and in which status X project is. For that we are going to learn what all this Alpha version stuff and the different steps before releasing something into mainnet are. This process usually applies to most of the tech developments including crypto with some variations depending whatever the dev team decided.
Before releasing something into mainnet, every development pass through an intensive testing process composed by:
- Alpha: This is the initial experimental version and its goal is to test core functionality. Usually internal tests.
- Beta: In this step all the previous bugs found have been fixed and the code is more mature and refined but still open to external feedback and testing.
- Final Candidate: This is basically the “almost there” version that is used for stress tests before full deployment.
- Mainnet: Code is for production use and this is where everything must be "perfect".
To not get you bored more, this process can be applied to X amount of environments. This process could be separated in other layers where internally devs have this same process duplicated before going into a more "public" and official process.
With all of this I want to put some perspective so you can clearly understand in which stage a crypto project is when they talk about releases and alpha, beta, etc. terms. Now depending on the bugs, the workforce and luck a project will take longer or less time to reach mainnet. In this case, I believe AggLayer could be on Polygon mainnet by end of February 2025 inside the schedule they have been sharing.
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