Agglayer releases CDK Enterprise bringing crosschain access to custom blockchains
Polygon Weekly Overview - August 29, 2025
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Agglayer Spotlight
🟪What happened: Agglayer launched CDK Enterprise, a privacy-first blockchain stack designed for enterprises wanting financial-grade controls and access to interoperability. Also, the network rolled out Agglayer Developer Portal for local crosschain app development.
🟪Why does it matter: CDK Enterprise is designed to solve the fundamental trade-off that has limited enterprise blockchain adoption, privacy versus network effects of interop.
Traditional private chains provide confidentiality, but also create silos with high operational costs. For example, Hyperledger Besu, an open-source Ethereum client designed for both public and private permissioned networks, has seen limitations with accessing broader liquidity that exists across the network.
With CDK Enterprise, organizations get financial-grade privacy through off chain transaction storage with zero-knowledge proofs posted to Ethereum. This means, transaction data remains private while still providing cryptographic proof of validity and balances to the public blockchain. The platform offers migration from Hyperledger Besu with white-glove support.
CDK Enterprise can be compared to a private banking system that connects to the global financial network when needed. The architecture allows for access control lists to define role-based permissions and SSO integration maps for company logins for specific onchain roles. This enables enterprises to maintain existing identity systems while controlling exactly who can access different blockchain functions.
For financial services, this means treasury teams can mint funds and set velocity limits, enable customer operations to process refunds and provide auditors read-only access to event logs. The stack leverages the high-performance Erigon client to provide 5,000+ TPS and 200 million gas per second processing speeds. All transaction details stay confidential, while also maintaining regulatory compliance.
Additionally, the network launched the Agglayer Developer Portal for local crosschain app development. The Developer Portal provides immediate access to crosschain development through the AggSandbox. Developers can spin up multiple simulated chains locally, test crosschain transactions without gas fees and fork templates for DEXs, lending protocols and NFT marketplaces. The lxly.js SDK abstracts away complex crosschain plumbing, making unified liquidity development accessible.
🟪The big picture: CDK Enterprise is Agglayer's expansion from just public chain interoperability into enterprise infrastructure. This eliminates the forced choice between privacy and composability that has kept traditional finance separated from blockchain innovation.
The timing aligns with rising enterprise demand for blockchain and access to DeFi liquidity in a compliant way. Traditional finance institutions exploring tokenized assets and fintechs building payment rails can now deploy private networks with connectivity to Agglayer’s interoperability layer.
Furthermore, Agglayer’s multistack approach means enterprises aren't locked into specific blockchain architectures. This gives companies the freedom to build across layer-1s, layer-2s, OP Stack and zero-knowledge stacks.This separates CDK Enterprise from traditional blockchains that have siloed architectural choices that force long term single platform commitment and limit future interoperability options.
Overall, this launch positions Agglayer as a bridge between traditional enterprise requirements and the broader crypto economy, while the Developer Portal accelerates adoption by letting institutions prototype crosschain applications immediately rather than waiting for complex integrations.
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