With Kaleido, you match an enterprise-grade platform with pluggable tools to quickly build dApps on the Polygon network.
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Polygon is a multi-faceted scaling suite for Ethereum, offering the widely adopted PoS sidechain and the Chain Development Kit (CDK) for zero-knowledge powered Layer 2s.
Kaleido is a premier partner for Polygon, offering click-button deployment of Polygon CDK chains and enterprise-grade PoS nodes, enabling you to build scalable, custom networks with zero-knowledge proofs.
Polygon is a family of Ethereum-compatible blockchain networks. Its main chain, Polygon PoS, offers low fees and fast transactions, and the Polygon CDK lets organizations launch their own chains that connect through the AggLayer. POL is the native token, used for gas and staking. Kaleido runs Polygon PoS nodes and deploys managed Polygon CDK chains for institutions, alongside Ethereum and other EVM networks.
Kaleido runs enterprise RPC endpoints and nodes for Polygon PoS Mainnet and the Amoy testnet, and offers managed deployment of custom chains built with the Polygon Chain Development Kit (CDK). Institutions also get Kaleido's custody, tokenization and smart contract APIs on Polygon, using the same tools they use on Ethereum and other EVM networks.
Polygon CDK (Chain Development Kit) is an open-source framework for launching your own layer 2 chain that connects to Ethereum and to other Polygon chains through the AggLayer. Kaleido offers click-button, fully managed deployment of Polygon CDK chains, so an institution can run a dedicated chain with its own throughput and access rules without building the infrastructure itself.
Kaleido's Polygon nodes and RPC endpoints run on infrastructure covered by Kaleido's SOC 2 Type 2 report and its ISO 27001, 27017 and 27018 certifications. Access is controlled with OAuth 2.0 / OIDC, role-based permissions and mTLS, and production workloads get 24/7 support options and a 99.9% uptime SLA. Security and compliance has the details.
Polygon PoS started as a sidechain to Ethereum with its own validator set, and Polygon now connects a wider group of chains through the AggLayer. Because Polygon is EVM-compatible, Ethereum smart contracts, wallets and tools work on it with little or no change, which lets Kaleido run the same contracts and APIs on Polygon and Ethereum.
POL is the native token of Polygon PoS, used to pay gas fees and to stake as a validator. It replaced MATIC in 2024. Kaleido's transaction manager handles POL gas, nonce ordering and confirmation tracking, so applications on Polygon don't manage fee estimation themselves.
Kaleido gives teams the building blocks for a Polygon application: managed nodes, a smart contract manager that compiles and deploys contracts and generates REST APIs from their ABIs, event streams for on-chain activity, and wallet and key management. Developers keep their usual Ethereum tools. See Web3 Middleware for the full toolset.
