- Polygon has expanded its reach in India with a new alliance with Jio.
- The firm plans to add new Web3 capabilities to drive decentralized initiatives.
Polygon Labs, the entity behind blockchain giant Polygon (POL), has announced a partnership with India-based Jio Platforms. Leveraging Polygon’s infrastructure, Jio, the telecom arm of Reliance Industries, will provide Web3 services to its over 450 million users.
Jio Platforms Expanding Web3 Capabilities for Users
As revealed in a blog post, Jio will work with Polygon to improve Web3 capabilities for some of the existing applications and services. This partnership marks a huge step forward for Web3 adoption in India. Without compromising on decentralization, the Polygon blockchain remains focused on balancing speed, scalability, and affordability.
Polygon and Jio have joined forces through the new partnership to add blockchain-based capabilities to the JioSphere web browser. Traditional methods make this project expensive, cumbersome, and time-consuming. However, the partnership with Polygon has simplified the process.
Sandeep Nailwal, Polygon’s co-founder, commented, “We’re building at an insane pace, onboarding massive partners, and pushing blockchain into the mainstream.” He added that the blockchain’s growth comes with more responsibility to ensure the implementation of the laid-out initiatives.
According to Nailwal, developers never have to compromise on the fundamentals, as Polygon’s infrastructure can scale without sacrificing what makes blockchain powerful.
Furthermore, Nailwal emphasized that Polygon is focused on balancing scalability and decentralization. The co-founder believes both innovations are important for ensuring a well-balanced blockchain network.
He revealed that Polygon is investing in zero-knowledge technology to make scaling more seamless across the ecosystem. According to Nailwal, the main goal is to give developers and users faster, cheaper transactions without compromising trust or decentralization.
Polygon is already powering some of the most active use cases in Web3, ranging from stablecoin payments to real-world tokenization with major institutions. As featured in our recent coverage, BlackRock has expanded a tokenized fund on Polygon.
Polygon provides the scalability required to support institutional investments. It utilizes sidechains, or Plasma chains, to process transactions off the main Ethereum chain.
Web3 Adoption in India
It is important to note that Polygon’s collaboration in India did not just begin. In January, Indian Railways experimented with Polygon to issue Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs) into the MahaKumbh 2025 ticketing system.
The Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation (IRCTC) partnered with Chaincode Consulting to mint and distribute the tickets.
As noted in our earlier post, approximately 1.2 million train tickets are booked daily through the IRCTC platform. This action aims to modernize the travel experience and present a fresh approach to boost efficiency while lowering the impact of ticketing Carbon.
India’s government has intensified efforts to fight crypto scams. As we covered in our latest report, the government allied with Google and Meta to recognize, prevent, and destroy phishing campaigns and false advertising networks.
