- Growing up in poverty in a Delhi ghetto, Sandeep Nailwal has always had the ambition to achieve something better.
- He wants Polygon to have the same impact as Ethereum and Bitcoin.
- Polygon’s rise to the top 10 cryptocurrencies by market capitalization has not satisfied Nailwal.
- Matic Network, now Polygon, faced challenges in its early days and had to switch from Plasma technology to Optimistic rollups.
- The project experienced a market crash in 2020 but survived and continued to grow.
- Polygon has made several acquisitions to expand its ecosystem.
- The project is betting on zero-knowledge rollups (ZK) for infinite scalability and unified liquidity.
- Multiple teams within Polygon are developing different ZK-powered solutions.
- Polygon’s vision for the future is to become the “Value layer of the internet” by connecting various Layer 2 chains and enabling seamless transfer of value.
- Polygon 2.0 roadmap includes the introduction of a new token called POL and the concept of restaking.
- Sandeep Nailwal aims for Polygon to be recognized as one of the top three projects in the space.
Read Part 1 here: Slumdog billionaire: Incredible rags-to-riches tale of Polygon’s Sandeep Nailwal
