About Polygon

Upgrading How the World Moves Money

We're building technology for money to move easily and instantly through open systems so people and businesses everywhere can take part in a global economy

Why Polygon

Money is fragmented, slow, and inefficient. We’re changing that.

Legacy financial systems were built for a different world. While the internet moves at the speed of light, money is stuck in line at the bank.

Polygon was founded to change that. After nine years and billions processed, one thing was clear: the bottleneck isn’t the blockchain rail, but everything around it. Wallets, compliance, orchestration, and on/off-ramps.

That’s why we’re building the Open Money Stack: a single integration for stablecoin payments that works with existing systems. Enabling low fees, 24/7 global settlement, and infrastructure built to scale.

Stats

We've been around the block

110

Transactions per second

$0.002

Average transaction cost

1.15B

Total value locked

2.4T

Transfer volume

3.4B

Stablecoin supply

7B

Total transactions

159M

Unique wallet addresses

Timeline

Our story

2017
Early day

Polygon (formerly Matic Network) is founded to scale Ethereum

2020
Mainnet

Mainnet goes live, bringing scale to Ethereum for first time.
Polymarket, the singular breakout crypto application,
launches exclusively on Polygon

2021
Expansion

Expansion to zero-knowledge (ZK) technology
with acquisitions and rebrand to Polygon.

2022
Scale

Global brands launch pilots on Polygon, including Adobe, Disney,
Meta, NFL, NuBank, Reddit, Robinhood, and Starbucks.

2024
Agglayer

Announcement and launch of Agglayer, unifying all of crypto
and built with ZK technology

2025
Upgrade

Major upgrades expand Polygon’s payments power;
real-world adoption by major institutions including Stripe,
Revolut, Flutterwave, BlackRock, and more

2026
OMS

Polygon Labs acquires Coinme and
Sequence, launching Open Money Stack

Leadership

Meet
the team

Get to know the Polygon Labs leadership team

Sandeep Nailwal

Sandeep
Nailwal

Co-Founder and CEO of Polygon Foundation

Jake Werrett

Jake
Werrett

Chief Legal Officer

Joe Hamade

Joe
Hamade

Chief Finance Officer

Marc Boiron

Marc
Boiron

Chief Executive Officer

John Egan

John
Egan

Chief Product Officer

Jonathan Tamblyn

Jonathan
Tamblyn

Chief People Officer

Mudit Gupta

Mudit
Gupta

Chief Technical Officer

Diana Chimes

Diana
Chimes

VP Marketing

Aishwary Gupta

Aishwary
Gupta

Head of Business Development

The go-to stack powering billions in payments

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