The exact moment I knew I was doing something meaningful with my life at Polygon wasn't a valuation milestone or partnership announcement with. It was seeing the constant stories: Someone in London sending $50 to their family in Nigeria using Polygon. Someone in San Francisco sending $200 to their parents in Laos. All for $0.003 in fees. I even saw people in my native city of Ramnagar, in the hinterland of India, using Polygon on MetaMask to do some transactions. Every transaction on Polygon is much more than just a tx hash, it's an individual story about how onchain infrastructure makes everyday people's lives better. I think about growing up, where sending money used to take 5 kilometers of walking, a full day off work, massive fees, and weeks for the money to arrive. These people are now able to do the same thing in 3 seconds for less than a penny. That's when I realized we weren't building a blockchain company. We were building new rails for global money. The technology disappears when it works. Now millions of people move money across borders like they're sending a text message.
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