Jaynti Kanani said he stepped back “from the daily grind” at Polygon about six months ago.
Jaynti Kanani, co-founder of Polygon, announced that he had stepped back “from the daily grind” on the project for the first time in six years.
In X's Oct. 4 thread (formerly Twitter), Kanani said he plans to focus “on new adventures” while contributing to Polygon “from the side.” He, along with software engineers including Sandeep Nailwal, Anurag Arjun, and Mihailo Bjelic helped found the Matic network in 2017, which was later renamed Polygon.
“Wow, this makes me emotional,” said Nailwal in response to the announcement. “What an incredible journey we are on together, brother. But this is just the beginning for Polygon, I hope we can do more and longer together on this crazy journey that is Polygon. But hey, you gotta do what you gotta do.”
Polygon's website lists 10 founders of the protocol, some of whom are still involved in various side projects on the platform. Arjun left Polygon in March with a spinoff of blockchain data availability protocol Avail.
Polygon Labs has begun accepting improvement proposals aimed at transitioning the network to Polygon 2.0 since the plan was announced in June. This new ecosystem will use zero-knowledge proofs and consists of four protocol layers focused on staking, interop, execution, and proof. At the time of this publication, developers were still working on “bringing Polygon 2.0 to life.”