AUTOMATED OFF-CHAIN ORCHESTRATOR FOR POLYGON
Streamlined Off-Chain Automation and Cross-Chain Coordination Platform
Project Proposal for Polygon Community Grants Program
SUMMARY
Polygon teams consistently ask for a Polygon-native way to automate workflows without rolling bespoke indexers or patching together generic cloud functions. The gap shows up most clearly for AggLayer pilots and zkEVM deployments where builders are juggling Gelato jobs, cron scripts, and spreadsheets to coordinate cross-chain actions.
AO-Polygon is a lean automation toolkit that ships usable value within six weeks. Version one includes a mainnet-ready event listener and trigger command-line tool, a managed job runner with retry policies and secret isolation, and AggLayer workflow templates for liquidity balancing and settlement confirmation. Everything is open source from day one with optional hosted runners available to early design partners.
Requested funding: 32,000 USD (milestone-based)
Delivery window: 10 weeks (three milestones)
Team: three core contributors plus part-time developer relations support
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CURRENT PAIN POINTS
Fragmented off-chain automation. Polygon developers rely on disconnected components such as custom indexers, ad hoc scripts, or general-purpose services like AWS Lambda. There is no unified orchestrator that understands Polygon POS, Polygon zkEVM, or AggLayer. VillageDAO office hours between August and October 2025 repeatedly logged requests for a “Polygon-native Defender.” Polygon DeFi teams have cited manual scripts in Discord (#dev-support, September 2025) as a reliability bottleneck.
Cross-chain coordination gaps. Polygon’s AggLayer blog (July 2025) invited tooling partners to automate liquidity syncing, yet teams still lean on spreadsheets and cron jobs. Project retrospectives on 0xPolygonLabs Medium call out “fragile composability” when automation is bolted on after the fact. There is no dedicated solution for automated cross-chain triggers, latency monitoring, or settlement workflows across POS, zkEVM, and Ethereum.
Limited Polygon-specific insight. The zkEVM Builder Sync survey (#17, October 2025) ranked the lack of a “single source of truth for off-chain execution” as a top three friction. Gelato and Chainlink cover generic automation, but neither ships AggLayer-aware patterns or lightweight self-hosting options. As a result, Polygon teams miss out on the network’s low fees and fast finality for AI, DePIN, and multichain applications.
Current tool landscape:
- First-party utilities such as PolygonScan, The Graph, and RPC endpoints;
- Existing automation layers such as Chainlink Keepers, Gelato Automate, or AWS Step Functions;
- Missing component: a Polygon-optimised automation kit with AggLayer templates, an opinionated CLI, and a self-hostable runner.
Additional signals: the Polygon Foundation partner-success intake call on 3 November 2025 confirmed “reusable AggLayer runbooks” as a priority gap. Questbook’s October 2025 AMA encouraged proposals that “ship usable infra within weeks and can be adopted by other teams immediately.”
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PROPOSED SOLUTION
AO-Polygon gives Polygon builders automation capabilities tailored to the ecosystem. Version one delivers three elements:
Event listening and trigger CLI. Subscribe to Polygon POS and Polygon zkEVM events with one command, emit structured payloads over webhooks or queues, and ship pre-built recipes for popular contracts covering bridges, lending markets, and liquid staking tokens.
Managed runner and policy engine. Provide containerised execution with isolated secrets, retry and backoff policies, on-call notifications, and dry-run support. The runner can be self-hosted or consumed through our managed infrastructure. We will launch with three design partner teams to prove real-world usage.
AggLayer automation templates. Offer turnkey flows for liquidity balancing and settlement confirmation across Polygon POS, Polygon zkEVM, and Ethereum. Each template includes metrics hooks for latency and failure tracking plus end-to-end demos.
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IMPLEMENTATION PLAN (THREE MILESTONES OVER TEN WEEKS)
Milestone 1 (weeks 1 to 3): Public event listener and trigger CLI.
Payment: 10,500 USD.
Outputs: open-source repository, npm package, and CLI that subscribe to POS and zkEVM events; five trigger recipes covering bridges, staking, and AggLayer pilot contracts; webhook and queue adapters (HTTP and Kafka); documentation and a five-minute demo video.
Evidence: tagged release, live demo on Mumbai, Amoy, and Polygon zkEVM, and a written setup guide validated by two external testers drawn from VillageDAO mentors.
Milestone 2 (weeks 4 to 7): Managed runner and policy engine.
Payment: 11,000 USD.
Outputs: containerised execution service with secrets vault, retry policies, and dry-run simulator; runbook notifications via PagerDuty or generic webhooks; Terraform and Helm charts for self-hosting; onboarding of two Polygon design partners with captured feedback.
Evidence: production deployment running for partners with on-chain addresses and dashboard screenshots, load tests sustaining 500 triggers per minute, a written case study including partner quotes, and a public telemetry dashboard.
Milestone 3 (weeks 8 to 10): AggLayer automation templates and launch support.
Payment: 10,500 USD.
Outputs: two end-to-end AggLayer automation templates for liquidity balancing and settlement confirmation; latency and failure analytics overlay plus a read-only web console; community workshop and published tutorial; sustainability plan covering hosted runner pricing and community contribution guidelines.
Evidence: recorded cross-chain demo covering POS, zkEVM, and Ethereum; metrics report from design partners; workshop attendance log and feedback summary; updated documentation site with ready-to-use templated flows.
Stretch scope (optional, additional 8,000 USD if Polygon elects to extend): build template packs for NFT gaming and enterprise payments, add alerting integrations for Slack, Discord, and Telegram, and expand hosted runner capacity for public onboarding.
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BUDGET SUMMARY (32,000 USD)
Core engineering: 20,000 USD (three engineers averaging 1,700 USD per week over staggered four-week commitments).
Infrastructure and tooling: 4,000 USD (managed runners, telemetry stack, staging environments, security scans).
Design partner support: 3,000 USD (integration assistance, incentives for user testing, workshop preparation).
Documentation and developer relations: 3,500 USD (tutorials, demo production, community workshop logistics).
Contingency reserve: 1,500 USD (unexpected security fixes or infrastructure scaling).
Total: 32,000 USD aligned with the milestone schedule above.
Unused funds will be returned if the project completes under budget.
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SUCCESS METRICS (FIRST 90 DAYS AFTER COMPLETION)
Adoption: eight production teams running AO-Polygon jobs with verifiable contract addresses.
Automation coverage: more than 300 automated tasks executed each day across Polygon POS and Polygon zkEVM.
Reliability: 97 percent of jobs succeed on first run and 99.5 percent within automated retries.
Latency: median trigger-to-execution time below 1.2 seconds for design partner workloads.
Telemetry: all partners exporting metrics using the provided templates.
Qualitative indicators include average satisfaction of at least 4.5 out of 5 from partner surveys, at least two external maintainers contributing pull requests in the first month, three VillageDAO tutorials built on top of AO-Polygon, and public testimonials from Polygon community leads or validator teams highlighting AggLayer enablement.
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RISKS AND MITIGATION
Data streaming volume is addressed through scalable designs, caching, and selective indexing.
Cross-chain security risks are handled through internal reviews, third-party audits where required, and aggressive sandbox testing.
Protocol drift is mitigated by maintaining a direct feedback loop with Polygon Labs and syncing on AggLayer updates.
Scope creep is controlled through documented change gates and the milestone structure.
Resource risk is reduced by keeping backup contributors on call and staging handoffs.
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COMMUNITY IMPACT
Developers gain a unified automation path across Polygon chains, faster time to market, and ready-made workflows for AI and DePIN projects.
The ecosystem benefits from improved reliability, cost savings through smart automation, and demonstrable AggLayer adoption that strengthens Polygon’s multichain positioning.
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ALIGNMENT WITH POLYGON PRIORITIES
AI applications: AO-Polygon supplies safe execution patterns for AI agents reacting to on-chain events and coordinates cross-chain AI workflows.
DePIN initiatives: it automates triggers from physical infrastructure sensors and orchestrates data processing across Polygon chains.
Cross-chain interoperability: native AggLayer support, multi-chain automation, and bridge orchestration reduce manual intervention and unlock the liquidity vision Polygon is messaging for 2025.
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SUSTAINABILITY AND OPEN SOURCE PLAN
AO-Polygon ships under the MIT license in a public repository. Governance will be community-driven with clear contribution guidelines. We plan monthly updates, active support channels, and ongoing synchronization with new Polygon protocol features. Hosted runner pricing tiers will be published before general availability to keep the service sustainable without locking out self-hosted use.
AO-Polygon closes a gap Polygon builders continue to highlight: fast, open, AggLayer-aware automation that teams can deploy today. Rather than a sprawling four-month platform, this proposal delivers tangible value in ten weeks, backed by verifiable partner usage and community education. We request a 32,000 USD milestone-based grant to bring AO-Polygon to production and stand ready to expand the scope once the first cohort proves the impact.
Project Repository: To be created after grant approval.