Polygon
An overview of using Polygon with Tableland.
Polygon is one of the EVM-compatible Layer 2 solutions that Tableland currently supports. Check out the overview of what this network is and relevant information when using it.
Overview
Polygon is a popular L2 scaling solution called a sidechain. It has low transaction costs and high transaction speed & throughput, so many developers choose Polygon when designing cost effective applications that require a high transaction throughput or speed.
For comparison, Polygon supports 7k tx/s compared to Ethereum’s 15 tx/s and ~10000x lower costs per transaction than Ethereum. It’s important to note that sidechains do use different security assumptions than the L1; it’s what allows Polygon to architect its network in a way that enables all of these benefits for developers. Nevertheless, it’s a great scaling solution.
Setup & resources
polygon amoy (testnet)
- Chain ID:
80002 - Contract address:
0x170fb206132b693e38adFc8727dCfa303546Cec1 - Network name:
polygon-amoy(used for Hardhat or ethersjs) - Tableland validator API:
https://testnets.tableland.network/api/v1 - RPC URLs: https://chainlist.org/chain/80002
- Block time: 2-3 seconds
- Block depth: 1
- SQL materialization time: <10 seconds
- Symbol: MATIC
- Faucet: https://www.alchemy.com/faucets/polygon-amoy
polygon (mainnet)
- Chain ID:
137 - Contract address:
0x5c4e6A9e5C1e1BF445A062006faF19EA6c49aFeA - Network name:
polygon(used for Hardhat or ethersjs) - Tableland validator API:
https://tableland.network/api/v1 - RPC URLs: https://chainlist.org/chain/137
- Block time: 2-3 seconds
- Block depth: 1
- SQL materialization time: <10 seconds
- Symbol: MATIC
- Bridge: https://portal.polygon.technology/bridge
Getting testnet funds
Request testnet Matic from a faucet noted above. Note that bridging is not required since MATIC is the native token, not ETH.