CDK Overview

Polygon Chain Development Kit (CDK) is an innovative toolkit designed for blockchain developers who want to create customizable layer 2 (L2) chains. It empowers developers to launch new L2 chains that leverage Polygon’s zkEVM technology on Ethereum, with the option to use validium networks. In the future, CDK will also support transitioning existing layer 1 chains into custom ZK-EVM L2s.

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To learn about CDK’s technical details, architecture, and how to deploy its parts, please see the CDK technical docs.

This document will evolve as it dives in depth explaining every part of the CDK, deploying each element of the Kurtosis stack separately, and showing you how the machine works. Reading this subsection will make you a theoretical CDK expert, and will be most useful for implementation providers looking to build on top of CDK for other projects.