Polygon Launches $150 Million Fund to Boost DeFi Adoption

Polygon Unveils $150 Million DeFi Fund

Blockchain scaling project, Polygon has unveiled plans on setting up a $150 million fund to boost the adoption of decentralized finance. The so-called #DeFiforAll Fund will focus on onboarding users to decentralized products and platforms.

The said fund seeks to accommodate numerous users and newbies towards DeFi platforms and products. The fund further intends to support the DeFi space for the next two to three years and will try to attract newbies in the crypto space.

Commenting on the initiative, Sandeep Nailwal, co-founder and COO of Polygon, said:

“Polygon is committed to making DeFi accessible to the next million users, and we hope to achieve this through the #DeFiforAll Find. We want to support the top DeFi protocols on Ethereum and help them scale and grow with Polygon.”

Polygon Rebranded Itself From the Matic Network

Polygon was founded in India as the Matic Network in 2017 before rebranding itself. It’s a layer-two network that processes transactions on its ‘sidechain’ before putting them together into the next block produced on the Ethereum mainnet.

An early secondary layer to the Ethereum Blockchain, Polygon looks towards taking advantage of Ethereum’s recent gas fee crisis to build up its name in the Decentralized Finance sector.

Polygon’s layer-two network has seen steady growth in the number of users, user activities, and transactions in the recent months following its rebranding from the Matic Network.

The scaling network’s recent decision to integrate with SushiSwap has led to a rise in liquidity and trading volume on its native Quickswap exchange. Daily transactions surpass those of Uniswap on April 26.