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Polygon, the favored Ethereum scaling platform, has been broadening its ecosystem. The protocol introduced at this time that it’s committing $100 million to advertise the event and adoption of Supernets, its application-specific blockchains with greater 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 workforce 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 greater efficiency.  

The workforce famous that Supernets may be constructed to run a selected utility, challenge, 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 appropriate with one another and the Ethereum blockchain by default. 

The $100 million funding the protocol is offering is the help initiatives that may 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 workforce stated. 

Interested challenge groups can apply for funds to help their R&D, challenge 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 just lately reached over $1,446 with DeFi platforms, NFT initiatives, and gaming dominating their quantity.  The protocol additionally just lately announced a $20 million dedication to make use of in driving the blockchain to change into Carbon adverse 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 worth marks a 52% drawdown from its all-time excessive worth of $2.91 reached in December final yr.

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