Top SOL NFT Collections Migrate to Polygon (MATIC), Solana Founder Reacts
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As grew to become recognized, the 2 hottest NFT collections on Solana, y00ts and DeGods, will migrate to different blockchains in 2023. Thus, it has been formally introduced that the following cease for digital artwork collections shall be Ethereum and its Layer 2 answer, Polygon.
👉🏾 y00ts discovered a brand new dwelling #onPolygon https://t.co/ulSTIVpvFd
— Polygon – MATIC 💜 (@0xPolygon) December 26, 2022
An occasion that was talked about again in November, when Solana’s reference to FTX induced the SOL worth to drop by greater than 60%, has created lots of controversy. It particularly, after all, harm the massive Solana NFT group. Whereas there have been no questions on Ethereum, rumors that Polygon had paid tasks emigrate to its website emerged nearly instantly.
The co-founder of Solana Labs, Anatoly Yakovenko, took this occasion stoically and, commenting on the rumors that Polygon paid for the tasks, jokingly instructed creating forks of SOL for grants from Fortune 500 firms, which is a rating of the five hundred largest firms within the U.S. He additionally remarked that blockchain can’t do with out drama.
Make a UASF for sol that shall be used completely for grants to Fortune 500 firms!
— toly 🇺🇸 (@aeyakovenko) December 26, 2022
Polygon’s one other one, or two to be actual
The founding father of NFT collections DeGods and y00ts, Frank DeGods, didn’t deny rumors concerning the grant from Polygon and promised to reveal the quantity subsequent week. Commenting on the state of affairs generally, he stated that he’ll at all times be an fanatic, however with a purpose to proceed to develop and take a look at one thing new, they determined emigrate.
The migration of prime NFT collections with multi-million-dollar turnover to Polygon provides to the checklist of “huge photographs” establishing themselves on the MATIC community, which already consists of Starbucks, Disney and Meta.