Polygon, the favored Ethereum scaling platform, has been broadening its ecosystem. The protocol introduced immediately that it’s committing $100 million to advertise the event and adoption of Supernets, its application-specific blockchains with increased efficiency.
What are Polygon’s Supernets?
Supernets are Polygon’s newest addition to its multi-chain L1 blockchains powering ecosystem. In a blog post, the Polygon group explains the important thing options of Supernets.
Supernets are powered by Polygon Edge, a modular blockchain stack that permits the constructing of custom-made blockchain networks. Supernets tackle these traits, added with increased efficiency.
The group famous that Supernets will be constructed to run a particular utility, mission, or use case whereas being secured by the Polygon protocol, maintained by licensed companions, and receiving additional upgrades from the Polygon Edge structure. Supernets are additionally suitable with one another and the Ethereum blockchain by default.
The $100 million funding the protocol is offering is the assist initiatives that can construct on the brand new framework.
“We envision Polygon as a massively scalable, interconnected multi-chain system, and we are announcing a $100M fund to ignite this vision,” the group mentioned.
Interested mission groups can apply for funds to help their R&D, mission onboarding, liquidity mining, third-party integration, and acquisition whereas constructing a Supernet.
Polygon’s quickly rising ecosystem and MATIC
Before the emergence of Supernets, there have been already over 20 initiatives constructing on Polygon Edge which first launched final yr. Similarly, the remainder of the Polygon ecosystem is quickly increasing.
Polygon ecosystem initiatives lately reached over $1,446 with DeFi platforms, NFT initiatives, and gaming dominating their quantity. The protocol additionally lately announced a $20 million dedication to make use of in driving the blockchain to turn into Carbon damaging this yr.
MATIC, the native token of the Ethereum-compatible blockchain ecosystem, has traded like the remainder of the crypto market. MATIC is buying and selling at round $1.40, down 4.2% within the final 24 hours. The present value marks a 52% drawdown from its all-time excessive value of $2.91 reached in December final yr.
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