Sandeep | CEO, Polygon Foundation (※,※) (@sandeepnailwal) — Twitter Score 719 out of 1000

Sandeep is Sandeep Nailwal, CEO of the Polygon Foundation and co-founder of Polygon (formerly Matic Network), an Ethereum Layer 2 scaling solution co-founded in 2017 alongside Jayanti Kanani, Anurag Arjun, and Mihailo Bjelic. He became the first CEO of the Polygon Foundation in June 2025, taking direct operational control as the last remaining original co-founder. Sandeep's Twitter Score is 719 out of 1000 (an Excellent rating) as of July 2026, placing him at rank #114 (top 0.1%) out of 389,587 accounts tracked on this platform, with 349,171 followers as of July 2026 and 19,028 posts published.

Sandeep has been central to Polygon's development and strategic direction. Polygon raised $450 million in February 2022 in a private sale of MATIC tokens, led by Sequoia Capital India with participation from SoftBank, Galaxy Digital, Tiger Global, and Republic Capital, among others. As Polygon Foundation CEO, he announced the deprecation of Polygon zkEVM Mainnet Beta and a refocus on two core products, Polygon PoS targeting stablecoin payments and RWA tokenization, and AggLayer for blockchain interoperability, with a goal of 100,000 transactions per second. Polygon's native token migrated from MATIC to POL in September 2024 as part of the Polygon 2.0 roadmap, and he has publicly considered reverting to the MATIC ticker, citing stronger brand recognition and user confusion around POL. He is reported to be the largest individual holder of the POL token. He also holds positions in Push Chain Testnet Arc, Xend Finance RWA, Frontier Wallet, UniLend Finance, Router Protocol, Decrypt, DefiDollar Finance and UniWhales DAO.

Sandeep co-founded Sentient Foundation in January 2024 alongside Pramod Viswanath and Himanshu Tyagi to build open-source AGI via blockchain-based incentives on Polygon CDK. Sentient raised $85 million in seed funding in July 2024, co-led by Founders Fund, Pantera Capital, and Framework Ventures, with additional investors including Arrington Capital, Delphi, and HashKey. The Sentient open AGI network launched to 2 million waitlisted users in September 2025, with the SENT token generation event following in November 2025. He also founded Blockchain for Impact (BFI), which has committed $200 million toward healthcare startups and biomedical research, with over $90 million already allocated. He previously founded CryptoRelief in April 2021 during India's COVID-19 crisis, a fund that received approximately $1 billion worth of SHIB tokens donated by Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin, and which later evolved into BFI. He has been mentioned by 1,182 accounts, with 3,513 total mentions across the platform.

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Sandeep draws a broad following across the crypto and blockchain ecosystem. The accounts that follow Sandeep include 2,422 founders, 600 angel investors, 1,488 influencers and 142 VCs, among them Balaji, Chris Dixon, CZ BNB, Toly, Laura Shin and jesse.base.eth.