The Polygon Matic PoS Chain is an EVM-compatible sidechain, secured by a permissionless set of PoS validators and checkpoints submitted to Ethereum. Hence, it also partly depends on Ethereum's security. It is sometimes defined as a commit-chain. Click here for a great visual technical explainer.
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