Sandeep Nailwal | Co-Founder of Polygon — Setbacks, Community, and the Polygon Rebrand

In this episode of BeaconLayer Podcast, Kenzi Morikawa and Diksha Wells sit down with Sandeep Nailwal to unpack his journey building Polygon — from early setbacks and inflection points to the long, unglamorous work of earning developer trust at scale.Sandeep shares how he first got pulled into crypto, why Polygon has always treated the builder community as the real moat, and what “community building” means when you’re supporting thousands of teams across different chains, tools, and narratives. They also dig into Polygon’s evolution and rebranding journey — what changes externally vs. what actually changes inside the product and org — plus Sandeep’s view on where Web3 is heading now, what’s overhyped, and what’s quietly compounding in the background.