Thread by @0xPolygon

1/ Things move fast in Web3. A week can feel like a year, 6 months can feel like an eon.

#Polygon’s @dtyagi takes a look back at the greatest hits of the first half of 2022 (or the extended season of #WAGMIonPolygon) in his latest article.

Here are some of the highlights.🧵

2/ Stats!

Total funds #Polygon invested in hackathon bounties & @gitcoin commitments: $2M

Apps running on Polygon: 19,000+

Average number of monthly transactions: 90M

Cumulative contract creators: 153,000+

Potential creative energy of devs building #onPolygon: Unbounded💜

3/ During the first half of 2022, #Polygon made a concentrated effort to fully support the vision of #Web3 devs everywhere by launching Polygon Guilds, Polygon Academy, @0xPolygonDAO and Polygon Village, as well as setting up WAGMIJobDrops and the Polygon Ecosystem Job Board.

4/ More stats!

Polygon Fellowship Class of 2022: 10,000 applicants for 50 spots.

Hosted 15 hackathons, leading to hundreds of projects built #onPolygon.

At #ETHNYC, 140 projects chose to build on Polygon.

The Polygon #BUIDLIT Hackathon awarded $500,000 in bounties and prizes.

5/ Earlier this year, #Polygon committed to offsetting its cumulative carbon emissions from inception.

Every NFT minted, every DeFi transaction, any and all gas fees for bridging assets #onPolygon are accounted for.

6/ Last but not least, #Polygon is building infrastructure for a modular, Ethereum-secured ecosystem.

The team has spent 2022 so far laying the groundwork for use cases that haven’t yet been envisioned.

The result?

Polygon ID, Avail, Nightfall, Edge, Supernets, & #zkEVM.

7/ Read @dtyagi’s full Q1+Q2 2022 developer recap to find out even more interesting details and to get a sneak peek at what Q3 and Q4 have in store for #Polygon.👇

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