Polygon Puts Up Prize Money for Esports Tournaments on Community Gaming

Polygon is spending $10,000 to gin up excitement on esports platform Community Gaming.

The partnership will kick off with a Polygon-sponsored summer tournament series. Players of SkyWeaver, a free-to-play non-fungible token (NFT) trading card game by Horizon Blockchain Games, will compete for $2,500 in MATIC tokens. The tournament will be the first in a series, according to Polygon’s chief marketing officer, Min Kim.

Polygon’s popularity is booming amid rising demand for Ethereum scaling solutions. The protocol has kept up the momentum with a series of partnerships with various developers and DeFi projects. But Polygon’s partnership with Community Gaming indicates the protocol’s desire to begin attracting a less crypto-native user base.

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“By integrating with Community Gaming we continue to bridge the gap between decentralized technologies and the competitive gaming community with fast and cheap payments combined with secure and trustless on-chain transactions,” Polygon co-founder Sandeep Nailwal said in a statement.

Tournaments on Community Gaming, which recently raised $2.3 million in seed funding, can be launched on Ethereum, Polygon and Binance Smart Chain.

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