Polygon and Immutable zkEVM Partnership with Sandeep Nailwal & Robbie Ferguson

**David Hoffman** (0:07)
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This is David Hoffman doing an extra show this week without my AI co-host RSA.
But regardless, we are here to help you become more bankless and also perhaps more gamer, because that is the subject of today's episode. There's an exciting new announcement out of two of the biggest powerhouses as it relates to crypto gaming and crypto gaming chains. This is a partnership between Immutable and Polygon, two massive chains who are coming together to align themselves rather than be competitive.
And as it relates to this partnership, I don't know who is really left building out the world of Web3 gaming. These are the two biggest Web3 gaming pioneers and now they are joining forces. And so you're gonna get all of these details here in this episode. In this episode, we are talking to Robbie Ferguson, who is the co-founder of Immutable, and Sandeep, who is the co-founder of Polygon, talking all about how these two brands, these two chains are melding their technology and melding their effort to become the same vertical, the same stack. So I'll drop the punchline here.
Using Polygon's zkEVM, Immutable is building their own zkEVM using Polygon technology. And so we're having this combined BD force to push Web3 gaming onto the Immutable zkEVM.
So that is the announcement. You'll hear all about the nuances and the details and the second order effects and the topology of these networks, cause of course, the layer three conversation is related here. And all of these details are coming in this interview with Robbie Ferguson and Sandeep.
Quick disclaimers here. Both Ryan and I are investors in Immutable. Ryan is an advisor to Polygon. I am not.
So those are disclaimers there. And let's go ahead and get right into the interview. But first, a moment to talk about some of these fantastic sponsors that make the show possible.
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