Arianee Utilizes Polygon’s CDK to Develop Optimized Layer-2 for Digital Product Passports and Engagement Tokens
The Solution Ensures High Performance, Enhanced Security, and Interoperability Between ERC-721 Standards and the Arianee Protocol
Development Includes Launching Application-Specific L2 Appchains, Resulting in Customization, Enhanced Security, and Optimal Cost Management for Developers and Brands
Arianee has partnered with Polygon to develop a Layer-2 solution dedicated to tokenizing digital product passports. This collaboration aims to provide secure, scalable, and cost-effective blockchain infrastructure for brands.
We have been early believers in the Polygon ecosystem and have been working on the mainnet with many of our clients. Today, our decision to build a powerful L2 appchain powered by Polygon’s CDK allows us to take another significant step towards building blockchain-based solutions where performance, scalability, and connectivity are the norm.
Pierre-Nicolas Hurstel, CEO and Co-Founder of Arianee
On February 22nd, Arianee, a specialist in user data infrastructure based on ownership, enabling the issuance of Digital Product Passports for real-world assets, and Polygon Labs, the giant behind Polygon blockchain, announced their collaboration.
By utilizing Polygon’s Chain Development Kit (CDK), an open-source code for launching Layer-2 chains based on Zero-Knowledge proofs offering unlimited scalability and unified liquidity, Arianee has developed an optimized and dedicated Layer-2. This launch will enable brands to fully leverage the potential of Digital Product Passports (DPPs) and engagement tokens at a large scale.
We believe that Polygon’s CDK has the potential to revolutionize industries well beyond the realms of crypto and finance. We are pleased to see Arianee, a platform that has worked with some of the world’s biggest brands on real use cases, begin to build with Polygon’s CDK.
Marc Boiron, CEO of Polygon Labs
A Consortium of Prestigious Brands
Arianee Association, which includes renowned brands such as Audemars Piguet, Breitling, Panerai, Mugler, and Moncler, has chosen Polygon for its remarkable energy efficiency within the Ethereum ecosystem.
Since 2018, Arianee has established itself as one of the most widely used protocols globally, with over 1.5 million DPPs and engagement tokens minted by 50 brands across various sectors including luxury, watches, fashion, consumer brands, and entertainment.
Adapting to EU Regulations on DPPs
With the upcoming EU regulations regarding DPPs, they are becoming the norm, and brands are gradually adopting them. The watch industry, including brands like Breitling, IWC, Richard Mille, and Vacheron Constantin, members of the Arianee association, has been at the forefront of using DPPs to open new opportunities for consumer engagement and transparency.
Now, Arianee will enable brands to take advantage of an optimized and dedicated Layer-2 application-specific chain (appchain) powered by Polygon’s CDK to launch their own digital product passports and loyalty tokens. This ZK-powered, permissionless L2 appchain will allow any brand and developer to design highly customizable, cost-effective, secure, and performant infrastructures tailored to their specific needs.
Merging the Best of Both Worlds
With this advancement, brands will now benefit from the best of both worlds, incorporating both the features of the Arianee protocol and the advantages of Polygon’s CDK, including:
- Scalability & performance: High performance through cutting-edge ZK technology, meeting the increasing demand for lightning-fast transactions on the network.
- Security & sovereignty: Protection against potential attacks and vulnerabilities.
- Interopérabilité & EMV compatibility: All brands using the ERC-721 standard to mint their digital passports can integrate their infrastructure into the Arianee protocol with Polygon’s CDK. This facilitates communication and collaboration between different protocols and networks.
- Flexibility: Ability to maintain unique characteristics and functionalities across multiple blockchain networks.
- A dedicated and unified block space for each application, ensuring that the user experience is not affected by other high activity on the network. This provides improved performance with dedicated throughput.
- Cost management: Enables brands and developers to better manage the costs associated with operating the protocol, such as gas fees, smart contracts, currency, etc.
This evolution represents a step forward for the entire ecosystem, further advancing Arianee and Polygon Labs’ joint mission of providing brands looking to build scalable projects with access to performant and scalable solutions.
