Polygon Labs, the company behind the Ethereum-linked blockchain network Polygon, is doubling down on zero knowledge solutions with a new fundamental structural change. On May 29, Polygon Labs officially announced the new expanded role of its co-founder and chairman Sandeep Nailwal as Chief Business Officer (CBO). To create the new role, Nailwal will increase focus on developing tools related to ZK proofs developed by Polygon.
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Nailwal will work particularly with Polygon CDK, a ZK-based software toolkit designed to enable developers to create new Layer-2 chains on Ethereum and transition between chains. The executive will also lay the foundation for developer and technology integrations of the two-component decentralized protocol AggLayer, launched in February 2024.
Nailwal’s official appointment as CBO comes after overseeing strategy and implementation as executive chairman at Polygon for several months over the past two years. The announcement notes that the transition is now nearly complete and has been implemented under the leadership of CEO Marc Boiron.
Boiron stated that Sandeep’s daily implementations on the most important projects are invaluable. He noted that Nailwal has been actively interacting with developers and startups throughout his career in the industry since the inception of the Polygon network:
“Polygon Labs is in the midst of creating incredible and transformative technology that will provide countless opportunities for developers and organizations to scale quickly and securely while accessing liquidity.”
Polygon and Layer-2 Solutions
Launched in 2017, Polygon serves as a blockchain platform aiming to create a scalable, multi-chain blockchain system compatible with Ethereum. Operating on the Ethereum blockchain, Polygon offers scaling technologies to alleviate congestion, speed up transaction times, and eliminate other adoption complexities.
With ZK solutions and Layer-2 networks, blockchain developers can significantly increase scalability by processing transactions away from the main Ethereum blockchain network. For example, some Ethereum Layer-2 protocols saw a 99% drop in transaction fees following the network’s Dencun upgrade in March, while the main Ethereum network was extremely congested.
