Polygon boss says he's been 'questioning his loyalty' toward Ethereum

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Polygon co-founder Sandeep Nailwal has criticized Ethereum’s leaders for dismissing Polygon’s presumption arsenic a existent Ethereum furniture 2 — noting contributions that Polygon has made to Ethereum portion receiving small designation for those efforts.

Nailwal, who besides serves arsenic the Polygon Foundation’s CEO, said helium is present “questioning his loyalty” to Ethereum — peculiarly the Ethereum Foundation and the community, which, according to him, hasn’t fixed Polygon immoderate nonstop support.

“In fact, the reverse,” Nailwal said successful a station to X connected Monday, adding that helium has fixed his loyalty to Ethereum adjacent though it has perchance outgo him billions of dollars successful Polygon’s valuation not to marque itself arsenic a furniture 1.

“The Ethereum assemblage arsenic a full has been a crap amusement for rather immoderate time,” Nailwal said earlier suggesting that the “Ethereum assemblage needs to instrumentality a hard look astatine itself.”

His station aboriginal prompted a effect from Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin, who made a constituent to admit Polygon’s achievements successful the broader Ethereum community.

Nailwal isn’t the lone manufacture person who has handed retired dense disapproval to the EF, which has undergone a large enactment overhaul implicit the past 12 months.

Nailwal cited a post from a erstwhile EF researcher Péter Szilágyi who shared an 18 month-old missive expressing his vexation with his aged workplace, portion Eric Conner, 1 of Ethereum’s earliest developers, near successful January, citing concerns with Buterin’s enactment decisions.

He received immoderate support, including from Solana co-founder Raj Gokal and erstwhile Solana Foudnation caput of strategy Austin Federa, who some suggested that Polygon “team up” with Solana oregon go a furniture 2 connected the Ethereum-rival network.

Vitalik Buterin praises Polygon, Nailwal

In effect to Nailwal’s post, Buterin acknowledged Polygon's contributions to Ethereum, noting that it hosts the largest predictions marketplace level in Polymarket and has precocious zk-EVM technology, among different things.

Buterin besides praised Nailwal’s personal efforts with CryptoRelief, which has funded biomedical infrastructure and probe successful India.

Polygon inactive isn’t an Ethereum furniture 2 successful Vitalik’s book

Buterin did, however, enactment that Polygon lacks a impervious strategy to get the afloat information guarantees that Ethereum furniture 2s are meant to supply successful effect to Nailwal’s assertion that Polygon isn’t treated arsenic such.

He pointed retired that Polygon could easy “pick up disconnected the support a ZK tech stack” that volition alteration a impervious system, adding that the exertion has “gotten rather good” with proving costs present arsenic inexpensive arsenic $0.0001 per transaction.