Jaynti Kanani is the co-founder of Polygon (formerly Matic Network), launched in 2017 alongside Sandeep Nailwal and others. He played a key role in building Ethereum scaling solutions using Plasma and PoS chains. Under his leadership, Polygon became a major blockchain platform and one of India’s first crypto unicorns. In October 2023, Kanani stepped back from daily operations to pursue new ventures and later founded Morphic Studio, an AI-based animation startup.