The Rollup How Polygon Plans to Become Crypto's Default Payment Network with Mark Boiron
Sep 18, 2025
Mark Boiron, CEO of Polygon Labs, shares insights on how Polygon aims to become crypto's go-to payment network with lightning-fast transaction speeds. He discusses the importance of real-world asset tokenization and specialized chains over generic platforms. Excitingly, Mark hints at a significant upcoming integration with a major payment processor, enhancing customer experiences at point-of-sale. Plus, he details advancements in consumer UX and interoperability, making crypto payments more accessible and efficient.
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Different Use Cases Need Different Chains
- Different blockchain use cases have distinct technical needs, so one chain should not try to be best at everything.
- Specialized chains for payments, gaming, or DeFi will outperform one-size-fits-all blockchains for their targets.
Design For Payments, Not For Everything
- Build a payments chain focused on the specific needs of payments rather than repurposing a general-purpose chain.
- Optimize for low fees, sub-second finality and the tooling enterprises expect to attract incumbents and crypto natives.
Stripe Hire Brought Payments Product DNA
- Polygon hired John Egan, formerly Stripe's head of crypto, to bring payments product expertise into the team.
- Mark says John's crypto-first mindset plus product obsession will help build user-centric payment products on Polygon.