Sandeep Nailwal, the new CEO of Polygon, has introduced a new roadmap favoring Polygon PoS and AggLayer while sidelining zkEVM.

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Now under his sole leadership, the Ethereum scaling project will sunset its zkEVM chain and focus on real-world assets (RWAs) and stablecoin payments through Polygon PoS while using its AggLayer to pursue its dream of building the internet of blockchains.

Following his appointment, Nailwal quickly introduced a new roadmap that sidelined the zero-knowledge EVM in favor of Polygon PoS and its AggLayer interoperability protocol.