Polygon is the official X account for Polygon, a blockchain payments infrastructure network co-founded in 2017 by Jaynti Kanani, Sandeep Nailwal, Anurag Arjun, and Mihailo Bjelic. Originally launched as Matic Network, the project rebranded to Polygon in February 2021. Polygon's Twitter Score is 727 out of 1000 (an Excellent rating) as of August 2026, ranking it #98 out of 483,944 tracked accounts, with 2,063,053 followers and 23,642 posts published since 2017. Polygon ranks #98 (top 0.1%) out of 483,944 tracked accounts on TwitterScore.
Polygon is affiliated with Polygon Labs, which builds and operates blockchain infrastructure for global payments. Core products include Polygon Chain, which supports up to 5,000 payments per second as of June 2026, and Agglayer, a cross-chain settlement layer connecting liquidity across blockchains whose unified bridge went live in February 2024. The native token POL replaced MATIC on a 1:1 basis in a mainnet upgrade that completed on September 4, 2024, making POL the native gas and staking token for Polygon PoS. In 2026, Polygon Labs acquired Coinme and Sequence and launched the Open Money Stack enterprise payments platform, combining wallet infrastructure, cash and fiat ramps, cross-chain interoperability via Trails, and Polygon Chain settlement in a single API.
Polygon reports $2.4 trillion in transfer volume, 7 billion total transactions, 159 million unique wallet addresses, and $3.4 billion in stablecoin supply on its network. Enterprise payment integrations on Polygon rails include Stripe, Mastercard, Revolut, Shift4, Paxos, Cash App, and BlackRock's BUIDL tokenized fund. Network incubations listed by Polygon include Miden, Billions, Zisk, and Katana.
Polygon raised $450 million in February 2022 via a private sale of MATIC tokens, led by Sequoia Capital India with participation from Tiger Global and SoftBank Vision Fund 2. Prior acquisitions included Hermez Network for $250 million in August 2021 and Mir Protocol for 250 million MATIC tokens in December 2021. In February 2024, Polygon Labs laid off 60 employees, approximately 19% of its staff. In December 2021, a security vulnerability on the network resulted in the theft of 801,601 MATIC tokens.
Polygon's tracked portfolio includes Splinterlands, Gitcoin, Cere Network, Pentagon Games XP, EPIC Travel, Unstoppable.ai, Lumia and Decentral Games.
Polygon has been mentioned by 5,901 accounts, with 42,776 total mentions on record.
Who follows Polygon on X?
Polygon draws a wide crypto audience. The accounts that follow Polygon include 2,781 founders, 620 angel investors, 1,474 influencers and 156 VCs, among them Chris Dixon, Erik Voorhees, Toly, ZachXBT, Ansem and Laura Shin.