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Sandeep Nailwal is an Indian software developer, the co-founder of Polygon Labs, [1] the founder of the COVID-Crypto Relief Fund [2] and Sentient. [3]
Nailwal was born in the Nainital district of Kumaon in the state of Uttarakhand, India, on 2 July 1987. [4] [5] He attended the Maharaja Agrasen Institute of Technology (MAIT) college in Delhi, where he undertook a computer science and engineering degree. [4] While studying at university, he worked on voter analysis for the BJP. [4] After working for a short time, he returned to his studies and attended the Indian Institute of Management to undertake an MBA. [4]
In 2016, Nailwal founded a blockchain startup called Scope Weaver and became well known as a forum moderator for Ethereum. [4] In 2017, Nailwal co-founded Polygon (formerly Matic Network), a platform for scaling Ethereum and developing infrastructure. [6] By 2023, it had reached US$451 million in funding. [6] He set up the company to solve Ethereum transaction and scalability issues. Its clients include Meta, Reddit, and JP Morgan Chase. [7] Nailwal's goal was to help Indian developers in the Web3 space lead the way in developing new protocols.
In 2021, Sandeep set up the COVID-Crypto Relief Fund to expedite the deployment of vaccines across India during the pandemic. [2] [8]
In early November 2023, Polygon Labs announced Polygon Village, a grant for developers to build apps in its ecosystem. The company offered 110 million of its native token, Matic, to projects in finance, gaming and social media. [7] Polygon Village offers support in the form of guidance, mentorship, co-working spaces and networking opportunities, as well as a grant. [7]
He currently lives in Dubai and is married with children. [4]
Vitaly Dmitrievich Buterin, better known as Vitalik Buterin, is a Canadian computer programmer and co-founder of Ethereum. Buterin became involved with cryptocurrency early in its inception, co-founding Bitcoin Magazine in 2011 and Dark Wallet in 2013 together with Amir Taaki and Cody Wilson In 2015, Buterin deployed the Ethereum blockchain with Gavin Wood, Charles Hoskinson, Anthony Di Iorio, and Joseph Lubin.
Ethereum is a decentralized blockchain with smart contract functionality. Ether is the native cryptocurrency of the platform. Among cryptocurrencies, ether is second only to bitcoin in market capitalization. It is open-source software.
Circle is a peer-to-peer payments technology company that now manages stablecoin USDC, a cryptocurrency the value of which is pegged to the U.S. dollar. It was founded by Jeremy Allaire and Sean Neville in October 2013. Circle is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts. USDC, the second largest stablecoin worldwide, is designed to hold at or near a stable price of $1. The majority of its stablecoin collateral is held in short-term U.S. government securities.
Consensys is a private blockchain software technology company founded by Joseph Lubin and based in Fort Worth.
Kavin Bharti Mittal is an Indian internet entrepreneur and son of Business Tycoon Sunil Mittal. He is known for his role as the founder and CEO of Hike, the company behind the unicorn Hike Messenger and the Rush Gaming Universe (RGU), a mobile gaming application.
Jason Fernandes is Web3 entrepreneur, Investor, and technology columnist hailing from Goa. Fernandes is the co-founder of AdLunam Inc.a Web3 investment platform. As a teenager, Fernandes founded the internet portal ZeoCities.com, the non-profit LDKids.org and wrote for CHIP Magazine. Later, while studying at the University of Texas, Austin, Fernandes co-invented the Internet-based DVR, InstantTV, and was part of the founding team at PerceptiveI. Fernandes was a monthly technology columnist for GlobeAsia Magazine, Indonesia for 5 years producing over 60 columns over this period. Fernandes is often quoted in Web3 publications and has spoken at TEDx events.
CryptoKitties is a blockchain game developed by Canadian studio Dapper Labs. The game allows players to buy, sell, and create non-fungible tokens (NFTs) using Ethereum. These NFTs represent virtual cats. The game's popularity in December 2017 congested the Ethereum network, causing it to reach an all-time high in the number of transactions and slowing it down significantly.
Polkadot is a decentralized, nominated proof-of-stake blockchain with smart contract functionality. The cryptocurrency native to the blockchain is the DOT.
Tron is a decentralized, proof-of-stake blockchain with smart contract functionality. The cryptocurrency native to the blockchain is known as Tronix (TRX). It was founded in March 2014 by Justin Sun and since 2017 has been overseen and supervised by the TRON Foundation, a non-profit organization in Singapore, established in the same year. It is open-source software.
Arjun Sethi is an American internet entrepreneur, investor and executive. He is co-founder and partner at venture capital firm Tribe Capital. Previously, he was a partner at Social Capital and an executive at Yahoo!, where he launched Yahoo! Livetext. Prior, he was co-founder and CEO of MessageMe and was the CEO of Lolapps, the developer behind Ravenwood Fair. In December 2023, he became Tribe Capital's chairman and CIO.
0x is an open-source, decentralized exchange infrastructure that enables the exchange of tokenized assets on multiple blockchains. Developers can use 0x to incorporate exchange functionality into their applications, and market makers can use 0x to create markets for cryptocurrencies and tokens. ZRX, an Ethereum ERC-20 token, is the native governance and staking token of 0x. Individuals who own ZRX can vote on protocol changes and stake their tokens to earn liquidity rewards in Ether (ETH). The project's creator and core developer is 0x Labs.
The COVID-Crypto Relief Fund was announced on 24 April 2021 during the second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic in India. India Crypto Relief Fund was founded by Sandeep Nailwal.
Solana is a blockchain platform which uses a proof-of-stake mechanism to provide smart contract functionality. Its native cryptocurrency is SOL.
Molly Allen White is an American software engineer, Wikipedia editor, and crypto skeptic. A critic of the decentralized blockchain (Web3) and cryptocurrency industries, she runs the website Web3 Is Going Just Great and a newsletter, which document malfeasance in that technology space. White has appeared in Web3-related news, consulted on federal legislation for regulating the crypto industry, and successfully proposed that the Wikimedia Foundation cease to collect crypto donations. White additionally volunteers as a Wikipedia editor and is among the site's most active women. She has edited a range of articles on right-wing extremism.
Polygon is a blockchain platform which aims to create a multi-chain blockchain system compatible with Ethereum. As with Ethereum, it uses a proof of stake consensus mechanism for processing transactions on-chain. Polygon's native token is POL, an ERC-20 token which allows for compatibility with other Ethereum cryptocurrencies. It is operated by Polygon Labs.
Tornado Cash is an open source, non-custodial, fully decentralized cryptocurrency tumbler that runs on Ethereum Virtual Machine-compatible networks. It offers a service that mixes potentially identifiable or "tainted" cryptocurrency funds with others, so as to obscure the trail back to the fund's original source. This is a privacy tool used in EVM networks where all transactions are public by default.
The Graph is an indexing protocol for organizing and accessing data from blockchains and storage networks. It allows developers to search, find, publish, and use the public data they need to build decentralized applications. The Graph Network enables the accessibility of decentralized applications through public and open APIs, called subgraphs. The native currency of The Graph is $GRT. The Graph volunteers, known as Curators, Indexers, and Delegators work to process data and share it with Consumers. The Graph offers support to index data from 25 different blockchain protocols including Ethereum, NEAR, Arbitrium, Optimism, Polygon, Avalanche, Celo, Fantom, and Moonbeam.
Injective (INJ) is a blockchain optimized for Web3 finance.
Evan Singh Luthra is an Indian award winning angel investor, cryptocurrency entrepreneur, and tech developer Luthra by the age of 17 had developed 30 apps and had invested in around 400 different companies, He also own a hotel chain for Web3 Community. alongside a group of companies called EL Group. He also had an interview with American writer and speaker on education Marc Prensky.