Within the largest spherical of investments in an Indian blockchain enterprise, marquee funding companies together with Sequoia Capital India, Softbank Imaginative and prescient Fund II and Tiger World have infused $450 million in Polygon, a decentralised scaling platform for ethereum blockchain.
What’s Polygon and what does it do?
Polygon was based by Jaynti Kanani, Sandeep Nailwal, Anurag Arjun, and Mihailo Bjelic. The platform is basically a “Layer 2” community constructed on the Ethereum blockchain to mitigate the site visitors load on the primary blockchain.
The Ethereum blockchain, which is ready for an replace to transition to a quicker and extra environment friendly stake-based community, has develop into congested with the addition of numerous customers. This prompted the creation of “Layer 2” networks like Polygon.
Along with being a community, Polygon additionally has a local cryptocurrency token MATIC, with a market capitalisation of $15.6 billion.
Why have prime traders wager on Polygon?
Sequoia Capital, Softbank, and Tiger World are in a catchup recreation with enterprise capital fund Andreessen Horowitz, which has taken the lead in investments within the web3 ecosystem that contains cryptocurrencies, non-fungible tokens (NFT), and metaverse purposes.
The traders would have checked out Polygon’s goals to spice up its presence within the gaming and NFT ecosystems. Polygon employed YouTube’s former head of gaming Ryan Wyatt earlier this yr to steer these efforts.
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What are the opposite large web3 investments in India?
Previous to the $450 million funding in Polygon, the most important funding within the web3 or cryptocurrency area in India was made within the buying and selling platform CoinSwitch Kuber, the place Andreessen Horowitz and Coinbase Ventures led a $260 million spherical in October final yr.
On Tuesday (February 8), Bengaluru and San Francisco-based crypto buying and selling platform Mudrex introduced a $6.5 million pre-Collection A fund elevate from Arkam Ventures, Tribe Capital, and Bolt by QED Buyers.
