The migration started in January<\/i><\/p>\n
Scalability has been one of the big themes <\/span>OVR<\/span> has been exploring since its inception. As mentioned in the official company blog OVR has been closely following all of the available solutions, and finally decided to <\/span>move to Polygon.<\/b><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n But why Polygon, you may ask? The blockchain scalability landscape is vast and quickly evolving; choosing one solution over another is not a simple task, but it\u2019s a multidimensional problem with many variables and forecasts to digest.<\/span><\/p>\n At <\/span>OVR<\/span><\/a> the decision was taken moving from the following first principles:<\/span><\/p>\n Lately, OVR\u00a0 has been exploring the opportunity to move to Optimistic or ZK Rollups to minimize decentralization trade-offs. Yet, both solutions did not demonstrate enough adoption, scalability, or lacked (ZK Rollups) EVM compatibility.<\/span><\/p>\n On the other side, <\/span>Polygon is very close to the Ethereum ecosystem,<\/b> shares the same values, and has massive scalability and adoption.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Currently, there are more active addresses on Polygon than Ethereum.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Thus, not only <\/span>Polygon<\/span><\/a> offers the scalability that OVR needs to make NFT minting and transfer cheap enough to be a negligible cost for our average transaction sizes, but its adoption and closeness to Ethereum dramatically reduces the risk of ending up in a \u00abghost chain.\u00bb\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Network effects and <\/span>Metcalfe\u2019s Law<\/span><\/a> are critical in blockchain, no matter how good your project is, ending up in the wrong chain and ecosystem will jeopardize adoption and growth.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n OVR believes that as promoters of such an ambitious project as the foundation for the <\/span>AR Metaverse,<\/b>\u00a0 avoiding platform risks as much as possible.<\/span><\/p>\n Nobody can predict the future, yet Polygon\u2019s current adoption and market sentiment is a very strong indicator of how it will stand to the test of time.<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n Is Polygon not as decentralized as a rollup, right? Well\u2026 Yes and no\u2026\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n While it\u2019s true that <\/span>Polygon is not a rollup, stating that it\u2019s less decentralized<\/b> than the actual rollups out there it\u2019s not necessarily correct.<\/span><\/p>\n In its current configuration, <\/span>Polygon can be categorised as a Commit Chain,<\/b> and its security model is highly reliant on the Ethereum infrastructure. Please refer to the following videos for an in-depth explanation of how Polygon consensus currently works:<\/span><\/p>\n https:\/\/youtu.be\/f7F67ZP9fsE<\/span><\/a><\/p>\nWhy has OVR chosen Polygon?<\/strong><\/h2>\n
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But what about decentralization?\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n