{"id":66044,"date":"2022-08-19T13:05:28","date_gmt":"2022-08-19T10:05:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=66044"},"modified":"2025-09-06T23:16:04","modified_gmt":"2025-09-06T20:16:04","slug":"polygon-becomes-anchor-investor-in-25-million-superlayer-venture-fund","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/polygon-becomes-anchor-investor-in-25-million-superlayer-venture-fund\/","title":{"rendered":"Polygon becomes anchor investor in $25 million SuperLayer venture fund."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Polygon, the Ethereum scaling platform, has become a strategic partner and anchor investor in a new $25 million fund from venture studio SuperLayer.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\\\"twitter-tweet\\\" data-lang=\\\"en\\\">\n<p lang=\\\"en\\\" dir=\\\"ltr\\\">We\u2019re thrilled to announce a new $25M fund for the SuperLayer ecosystem, led by <a href=\\\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/0xPolygon?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\\\">@0xPolygon<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>The funding will be used to expand our unique operating model, invest in new projects, and build premium Web3 products for rapid mass adoption<\/p>\n<p>Read more in our blog + thread below \ud83d\udc47\ud83e\uddf5<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 SuperLayer (@superlayerio) <a href=\\\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/superlayerio\/status\/1560301741320638464?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\\\">August 18, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async=\\\"\\\" src=\\\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\\\" charset=\\\"utf-8\\\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The venture firm focuses on backing startups in the Rally&#8217;s RLY Protocol ecosystem from Rally.io. The studio incubates projects, providing seed funding as well as expert support in areas such as community engagement, regulatory compliance, partnerships, and many others.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\\\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\\\">\n<p>&#8220;With SuperLayer&#8217;s focus on speed and quality, Polygon is a natural partner with leading industry protocols designed to eliminate blockchain scalability problems that slow innovation,&#8221; said Kevin Chow, managing partner of the studio.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>According to him, Polygon&#8217;s technologies &#8220;eliminate critical costs and congestion barriers&#8221;.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\\\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\\\">\n<p>&#8220;The ecosystem of the platform offers an extraordinary environment for growth and collaboration, opening doors for high-transaction crypto projects in areas such as SocialFi, GameFi, NFT and DeFi,&#8221; added Chow.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>SuperLayer expects the partnership to unlock opportunities for launching next-generation Web3 companies.<\/p>\n<p>As PitchBook notes, venture investments in crypto startups from April to June <a href=\\\"https:\/\/forklog.news\/obem-venchurnogo-finansirovaniya-v-kriptoindustrii-upal-do-minimuma-za-god\/\\\">fell by 31%<\/a>, according to PitchBook.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the volume of investments in the industry in the first half of the year <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/venture-investment-in-the-industry-in-the-first-half-tops-30-billion\">surpassed $30 billion<\/a>, according to Messari and Dove Metrics.<\/p>\n<p>Follow ForkLog&#8217;s Bitcoin news on our <a href=\\\"https:\/\/telegram.me\/forklog\\\" target=\\\"_blank\\\" rel=\\\"nofollow noopener\\\">Telegram<\/a> \u2014 cryptocurrency news, prices and analysis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Polygon, the Ethereum scaling platform, has become a strategic partner and anchor investor in a new $25 million fund from venture studio SuperLayer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":66045,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1390,1264,1133],"class_list":["post-66044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-partnership","tag-polygon-matic","tag-venture-investments"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"14","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66044","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66044"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66044\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66046,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66044\/revisions\/66046"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}