Gaming is the ‘largest scale opportunity’ for crypto — Polygon co-founder
Polygon co-founder Sandeep Nailwal says that speculation has been both the “boon and bane of crypto,” but genuine use cases will eventually rise to the surface. Sandeep Nailwal, the co-founder of the Ethereum scaling platform Polygon, believes Web3 gaming will eventually become one of the biggest drivers of mass crypto adoption. In a May 25 Ask Me Anything (AMA) in the r/India community on Reddit, Nailwal was asked what he sees as some genuine at- scale “real life” use cases for blockchain other than trading and payments. In response, Nailwal stated: “I think gaming is the largest scale opportunity for crypto," adding: “There are some top games launching in Web3 in the next 6-18 months and it would be very interesting to see if some of them are able to crack the crypto code. Last year itself there was $2 billion+ in funding for Web3 games.” “Polygon combined with its ecosystem players like IMX [Immutable X] got the lion's share in terms of those funded games. Fingers crossed...