Sandeep Nailwal

Sandeep Nailwal

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Absolute-Individual-Freedom Maximalist. Founder & CEO @0xPolygon Foundation, Founder @cryptorelief_, Co-founder @SentientAGI . Re/tweets are not endorsements.

Visa Adopts Polygon for Instant Global Stablecoin Settlements
SocialApr 29, 2026

Visa Adopts Polygon for Instant Global Stablecoin Settlements

And now @Visa. The world's largest payment network has turned on Polygon rails for its global stablecoin settlement program. Visa's partners can now move money instantly on @0xPolygon. $2.4 trillion in volume already moves through these rails. The names settling here: @Mastercard,...

By Sandeep Nailwal
Recent Exploits Expose Infrastructure Gap Before Trillion‑Dollar On‑Chain Adoption
SocialApr 28, 2026

Recent Exploits Expose Infrastructure Gap Before Trillion‑Dollar On‑Chain Adoption

3 bridge incidents in 3 weeks sounds bad but i think the harder read is this, we have been asking the biggest institutions in the world to come onchain and trust us with trillions. How can we expect that while...

By Sandeep Nailwal
Polygon's Weekly Transactions Dwarf Ethereum, Rival Base
SocialApr 28, 2026

Polygon's Weekly Transactions Dwarf Ethereum, Rival Base

Last 7 days - transaction count: ▸ Polygon total: ~63 Million (Almost as much as Base and Ethereum Mainnet combined) ▸ Excluding Polymarket: ~39.4 Million (More than 2x Ethereum Mainnet) IYKYK credits : @growthepie_eth

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On‑chain Stablecoin Savings: Fiat in, USDC Out
SocialApr 28, 2026

On‑chain Stablecoin Savings: Fiat in, USDC Out

Fiat in, USDC out, yield onchain. This is how simple onchain stablecoin savings should be. A great preview of what the Open Money Stack unlocks. Congrats @Coinstancy & @Coinme

By Sandeep Nailwal
Polygon Lets Crypto Feel Like Real Money Everyday
SocialApr 27, 2026

Polygon Lets Crypto Feel Like Real Money Everyday

"Your crypto actually feels like money" Thats the whole point right there. Polygon was built so teams like @Tangem can ship products that make this true for everyday users 💜

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Guardian Launches: Non‑Custodial Coordination for Institutional Crypto
SocialApr 23, 2026

Guardian Launches: Non‑Custodial Coordination for Institutional Crypto

When we incubated @0xMiden at Polygon labs, the thesis was clear. Privacy-first infrastructure built for serious on-chain finance. Today they shipped Guardian. A non-custodial coordination layer that solves one of the hardest problems in institutional crypto. Users retain their keys. Providers...

By Sandeep Nailwal
Self‑Improving AI Arrives: EvoSkill Enables Autonomous Evolution
SocialApr 23, 2026

Self‑Improving AI Arrives: EvoSkill Enables Autonomous Evolution

The Age of Self-Improving AI Is Here Today, Sentient AI teams released the production version of EvoSkill, the world’s clearest demonstration yet of AI’s ability to self-evolve. With it, we enter a world where the next generation of AI will mostly be...

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Late Stablecoin Adoption Risks Economic Obsolescence
SocialApr 22, 2026

Late Stablecoin Adoption Risks Economic Obsolescence

Countries slow to adopt stablecoins will face the same problem as late internet adopters. Sending money across borders still costs 6% and takes days, while stablecoins settle in seconds for fractions of a cent with no intermediaries sitting in the...

By Sandeep Nailwal
India's AI Edge: Own the Full Stack
SocialApr 22, 2026

India's AI Edge: Own the Full Stack

Sat down with @JitinPrasada ji, Union MoS Commerce & Industry, not so long ago to talk about where AI is headed and what India's play in it can really look like. His pinpoint focus on end to end solutions is something...

By Sandeep Nailwal
Few Great Days Power an Entrepreneur’s Year
SocialApr 12, 2026

Few Great Days Power an Entrepreneur’s Year

Out of like 300 working days in a year as an entrepreneur you get maybe 30 good ones and 5-6 really good ones. The ratio doesnt change as you grow, the goals just scale. But man those 5-6 days where...

By Sandeep Nailwal
Poor Must Trek Days Just to Send Money Home
SocialApr 11, 2026

Poor Must Trek Days Just to Send Money Home

My maternal grandfather was a house servant in Mumbai. Every time he had to send money back home to my grandmother and kids, he had to walk 3-4 km to reach the nearest post office. Home was a small village...

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On‑chain Payments Finally Outpace Legacy, Just Like Linux
SocialApr 10, 2026

On‑chain Payments Finally Outpace Legacy, Just Like Linux

People were dismissing onchain payments because the legacy systems have been around forever, that was the same energy as people dismissing Linux in the 90s because Microsoft and the proprietary systems were too dominant. The new thing starts rough and everyone...

By Sandeep Nailwal
Polygon's Upgrades Target 100k TPS, Redefining On‑Chain Payments
SocialApr 9, 2026

Polygon's Upgrades Target 100k TPS, Redefining On‑Chain Payments

"Build a new model that makes the old one obsolete." 3 mainnet upgrades in 4 months. We're fully all in on payments and every upgrade gets us closer to gigagas and 100k TPS, the kind of throughput where Polygon is just...

By Sandeep Nailwal
Empower Teams with AI Budgets for Competitive Edge
SocialApr 9, 2026

Empower Teams with AI Budgets for Competitive Edge

Give your team the tools and permission to experiment with AI and just get out of their way. To me its clear that AI is raising the bar of whats expected from every person in their role and the competition to...

By Sandeep Nailwal
Bridging India's MedTech Gap with Prototyping Labs
SocialApr 9, 2026

Bridging India's MedTech Gap with Prototyping Labs

Announcing @BFI_Impact’s latest grant to mPragati. This is one of my most bullish bets on things I am trying to do on the philanthropy side to create an impact in healthcare in India. Here’s why: India has world class research and clinical expertise...

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Giugliano Hardfork Boosts Polygon Payment Confirmation Speed
SocialApr 8, 2026

Giugliano Hardfork Boosts Polygon Payment Confirmation Speed

Giugliano hardfork is live on Polygon PoS today. If you're building a payment app on Polygon your users just got faster confirmations. This is what constantly upgrading the network looks like, we keep tightening the infra so payments work better for...

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Great People, Great Places: Success Depends on Your Environment
SocialApr 7, 2026

Great People, Great Places: Success Depends on Your Environment

Two weeks in NYC reminded me of something... If you want to build something great you have to be around great people, its really that simple and most ppl completely ignore it. Go look at who you're spending your time with,...

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AI Is Already Firing Competent Employees
SocialApr 6, 2026

AI Is Already Firing Competent Employees

Strong agree with @pmarca here. Let’s do a survey. POLL QUESTION: Do you know a single person you saw getting fired who was good at his/her job, the job still exists, but AI simply replaced him/her?

By Sandeep Nailwal
Beware: Old Cryptorelief Handle Used for Scam
SocialApr 5, 2026

Beware: Old Cryptorelief Handle Used for Scam

‼️This is a scam‼️ Cryptorelief officially rebranded to Blockchain for impact last year ( @BFI_Impact official handle being merged into one single one currently). Someone got hold of the previous Cryptorelief handle and is trying to launch some scam memecoin. Plz...

By Sandeep Nailwal
Build, Don’t Just Learn: Doers Thrive with AI
SocialApr 4, 2026

Build, Don’t Just Learn: Doers Thrive with AI

Everyone is out here taking AI courses and upskilling and consuming tutorials about prompting and so much other bookish knowledge. Honestly all that time could just go into building something real. The best way to learn is through DOING. Stop worrying...

By Sandeep Nailwal
X402 Enables Internet-Scale Money Flow with Industry Leaders
SocialApr 4, 2026

X402 Enables Internet-Scale Money Flow with Industry Leaders

The way finance is moving right now, money needs to flow on the internet the way data and email do and x402 makes that happen. Super proud to see @0xPolygon alongside @Coinbase, @Google, @awscloud, @stripe, @Mastercard, @Visa and many more as...

By Sandeep Nailwal
Crypto's Branding Gap with RBI Stalls Adoption
SocialApr 3, 2026

Crypto's Branding Gap with RBI Stalls Adoption

Crypto has a branding problem with the RBI. Which is strange because the RBI is actually one of the more forward looking central banks out there, but crypto just hasnt cracked it even with regulators coming around everywhere else. I...

By Sandeep Nailwal
MATIC Returns, New CBO Appointed as Chief Bald Officer
SocialApr 1, 2026

MATIC Returns, New CBO Appointed as Chief Bald Officer

Also we will be rebranding back to MATIC @mert will be our CBO - Chief Bald officer

By Sandeep Nailwal
Payments Shouldn’t Depend on Location in 2026
SocialApr 1, 2026

Payments Shouldn’t Depend on Location in 2026

This is sooo needed. Getting paid shouldn't be a geography problem in 2026. This is awesome to see. @koshmoney go get it 🔥

By Sandeep Nailwal
Crypto and TradFi Converge: On‑Chain Payments Boom
SocialMar 31, 2026

Crypto and TradFi Converge: On‑Chain Payments Boom

The perception shift in crypto has been wild honestly. We went from 'this is a scam' to the biggest corporations and banks on the planet racing to figure out stablecoins and onchain payments. Two worlds that used to want nothing to...

By Sandeep Nailwal
LATAM Pays Under 1% for Stablecoin Transfers
SocialMar 31, 2026

LATAM Pays Under 1% for Stablecoin Transfers

$13 on a $200 transfer and ppl just live with it. Wild honestly. Nine companies in LATAM doing it on stablecoin rails for under 1%. LATAM gets stablecoin payments more than anyone right now.

By Sandeep Nailwal
Polygon P2P Stablecoin Transfers Hit All‑Time
SocialMar 31, 2026

Polygon P2P Stablecoin Transfers Hit All‑Time

P2P stablecoin senders on @0xPolygon at all time high, up 28%! This is the number i obsess over, people just sending money to each other on the payments chain.

By Sandeep Nailwal
February's ATH Fades as Polygon Hits 625 M Transactions
SocialMar 29, 2026

February's ATH Fades as Polygon Hits 625 M Transactions

Told you February's ATH wouldn't last long 😂 625 million stablecoin txns on Polygon this month, and there's still a couple days still to go. Lets see where April takes us!

By Sandeep Nailwal
On‑chain Payments Thrive Where Traditional Cross‑border Systems Stall
SocialMar 29, 2026

On‑chain Payments Thrive Where Traditional Cross‑border Systems Stall

If there is one takeaway from whats happening geopolitically right now, its that cross-border payments were built for a stable world and we don't live in one right now. Settlement still runs through corridors and intermediaries that seize up the moment...

By Sandeep Nailwal
Polygon Equips AI Agents with Proven Transaction Rails
SocialMar 29, 2026

Polygon Equips AI Agents with Proven Transaction Rails

AI agents are going to transact orders of magnitude more than humans ever will. They need wallets, identity, settlement, cross-chain movement and we gave them exactly that with Polygon Agent CLI. And the rails are already proven... 493 million stablecoin transactions...

By Sandeep Nailwal
Winning Requires Updating Beliefs with Evidence, Not Ego
SocialMar 29, 2026

Winning Requires Updating Beliefs with Evidence, Not Ego

Every time you update your beliefs based on evidence, you get closer to reality. The people who consistently win have the ability to change their position when the data changes. Strong opinions, weekly held. Keep your ego in check. Love your efforts,...

By Sandeep Nailwal
Chain Scaling to 2,800 TPS, 5K Next,
SocialMar 28, 2026

Chain Scaling to 2,800 TPS, 5K Next,

1,000 TPS after Bhilai. 1,400 after Madhugiri. Now 2,800 with the gas limit at 120M. We gave you a roadmap and we're executing it. 5,000 TPS is next, and the path to 100K is already mapped out. Every upgrade makes this chain...

By Sandeep Nailwal
Ignore “Crypto Is Dead” Hype, Build Future Payments
SocialMar 28, 2026

Ignore “Crypto Is Dead” Hype, Build Future Payments

Every cycle i hear "crypto is dead" and every cycle the teams that ignored the noise and kept building ended up spawning the best products. We're building the future of onchain payments at @0xPolygon right now and barely anyone is talking...

By Sandeep Nailwal
Polygon PoS Hits 100K Checkpoints, Powering Trillions
SocialMar 28, 2026

Polygon PoS Hits 100K Checkpoints, Powering Trillions

Polygon PoS just hit 100K checkpoints. i still remember the first one going through and how big of a deal that felt. Blink and its 100K. Now theres TRILLIONS of dollars moving through the infrastructure behind money that never stops. Wild how...

By Sandeep Nailwal
Apex Pours $100B Into Polygon CDK‑Powered T‑Rex Chain
SocialMar 19, 2026

Apex Pours $100B Into Polygon CDK‑Powered T‑Rex Chain

Apex (managing 3.5T) commits 100B on T-Rex chain that leverages Polygon CDK. Polygon CDK is becoming the defacto stack for institutions. Many more coming in. This is a trailer. Trillions. Literally.

By Sandeep Nailwal
AI Isn't Conscious; Our Minds Misread Language Models
SocialMar 19, 2026

AI Isn't Conscious; Our Minds Misread Language Models

LLM based AI is NOT conscious. I co-founded a company literally called Sentient, we're building reasoning systems for AGI, so believe me when I say this. I keep seeing smart people, people I genuinely respect, come out and say that AI has...

By Sandeep Nailwal
Enterprises Settling Billions On‑Chain via Polygon
SocialMar 18, 2026

Enterprises Settling Billions On‑Chain via Polygon

CT loves pitting chain vs chain when it comes to payments. We are all building this new gen infra for global finance to come onchain. The enterprises aren't debating, they're settling billions onchain... A lot of money is moving onchain...

By Sandeep Nailwal
SEC Finally Clarifies Tokens, Unlocking Institutional Crypto Adoption
SocialMar 18, 2026

SEC Finally Clarifies Tokens, Unlocking Institutional Crypto Adoption

"We're not the (look-for-)securities-in-everything-commission anymore." SEC Chair Atkins said this yesterday. If you've built through the Gensler years you know how insane that sounds. Years of the SEC basically regulating through lawsuits instead of giving anyone clear rules and now they're...

By Sandeep Nailwal
Beware the Gap Between Praise and Your True Purpose
SocialMar 17, 2026

Beware the Gap Between Praise and Your True Purpose

You know where the real danger zone is? Everyone around you telling you how successful and great you are and inside you're sitting there thinking, i haven't even started yet. The danger is that gap between what the world sees and...

By Sandeep Nailwal
Polygon's Open Money Stack Targets Trillion‑dollar Payments Market
SocialMar 17, 2026

Polygon's Open Money Stack Targets Trillion‑dollar Payments Market

We've been acquiring, building, shipping nonstop at @0xPolygon for a reason. And that is to build the one thing crypto payments has been missing: a complete, end-to-end payments stack that actually works. The Polygon Open Money Stack. This is a trillion...

By Sandeep Nailwal
Stop Learning, Start Doing: Action Drives Mastery
SocialMar 17, 2026

Stop Learning, Start Doing: Action Drives Mastery

F**k learning. I’m honestly tired of people coming to me saying, “I want to do something where I can enhance my learning and excel.” My answer is always the same: Stop trying to learn. Start doing. Learning is wildly overrated when it becomes an...

By Sandeep Nailwal
Build in Bear Markets, Earn When Others Wait
SocialMar 16, 2026

Build in Bear Markets, Earn When Others Wait

Everyone's delaying TGEs and waiting for better conditions right now but Katana is pushing forward anyway and i respect that. Ive built through multiple bear markets myself, you learn pretty quickly that the teams who show up when conditions are ugly...

By Sandeep Nailwal
AI-Upskilled Seniors Will Outpace Unadapted Seniors
SocialMar 16, 2026

AI-Upskilled Seniors Will Outpace Unadapted Seniors

Unpopular Opinion : Its still very much, infact much more about Junior vs Senior and not only about "good with AI" vs "not good with AI" as the AI influencers might want you to believe. Its actually about AI-Upskilled Senior vs...

By Sandeep Nailwal
NVIDIA Commits $26 B to Open‑source AI Development
SocialMar 13, 2026

NVIDIA Commits $26 B to Open‑source AI Development

Good to see : "NVIDIA set to invest $26 billion in the development of open-source large-scale AI models"

By Sandeep Nailwal
Polygon Transfers: Faster than Banks, Under a Cent
SocialMar 13, 2026

Polygon Transfers: Faster than Banks, Under a Cent

Sent money on @0xPolygon faster than my bank could text me a verification code. Cost me less than a cent.

By Sandeep Nailwal
Polygon Hits Record with $500M Stablecoin Flow
SocialMar 13, 2026

Polygon Hits Record with $500M Stablecoin Flow

Polygon is a narrative violation chain. $500 million of stablecoin transactions in February. New all-time high. - @therollupco

By Sandeep Nailwal
Regulatory Clarity Unlocks Full On-Chain Finance Stack
SocialMar 12, 2026

Regulatory Clarity Unlocks Full On-Chain Finance Stack

Genius Act sorted stablecoins. Done. But thats only half the regulatory picture. The Clarity Act is the other half and arguably the bigger one. It draws the line between securities and commodities. Once institutions have that answer they can go all...

By Sandeep Nailwal
AI Danger Lies in Centralization, Not Sentience
SocialMar 11, 2026

AI Danger Lies in Centralization, Not Sentience

You're worried about the wrong AI problem. While everyone debates whether AI gets sentient and wipes us out, a handful of companies have already become the most powerful entities in the world. All the training data, all the compute, all the...

By Sandeep Nailwal
Polygon Stablecoin Volume Surges Past February Record
SocialMar 11, 2026

Polygon Stablecoin Volume Surges Past February Record

493 million stablecoin transactions on Polygon in February. ATH. March? 206 million already and we're not even halfway through the month. February's ATH won't last long. You already know what i think 👀 https://t.co/5HPNsrjcaO

By Sandeep Nailwal