Now there’s an easy and low-cost way to gain exposure to top Polygon-native projects, including Quickswap, DFYN, and Aavegotchi, via a single token
Seychelles, October 21 2021, 12pm Noon UTC – Amun, a leader in DeFi index products, today announces the launch of the Polygon Ecosystem Index (PECO) token. Available through the Amun Platform, the PECO token is an index of the top projects being built on Polygon, an Ethereum scaling platform onboarding millions to Web3 – giving users targeted exposure to the entire Polygon ecosystem, rather than just projects that live on both chains.
Created collaboratively by Amun, Polygon Foundation, and leading Polygon projects, PECO is Polygon’s first ecosystem index token.
PECO’s initial composition is made up of 50% MATIC, with the remaining 50% comprising Quickswap, DFYN, Adamant Finance, Aavegotchi, and Qi Dao. This composition provides an alternative to only holding MATIC, instead providing a token that grows with the entire Polygon ecosystem.
PECO is rebalanced on a monthly basis to lock in gains and ensure constituent tokens are allocated accordingly by rank of market capitalization and liquidity. The portion of MATIC in PECO is expected to be lowered over time to make room for other promising projects. PECO is free of management fees until 2023.
The token can be minted and burned at any time with one click on the Amun Platform, and is also available through other major exchanges such as SushiSwap. To broaden investor access to the Polygon ecosystem, PECO is available on both Polygon and Ethereum. Ethereum users can buy, mint, or burn PECO tokens with a single click. Amun’s integration with the Polygon Bridge makes the process seamless to the user.
James Wang, Head of Tokens at Amun said: “Given the growth of blockchain ecosystems beyond Ethereum, we believe index tokens that give users exposure to the top projects in an individual ecosystem are vital to onboarding users to these new platforms. We are the first company to launch crypto index products on multiple blockchains. Polygon is our first ecosystem token because of its early success in providing Ethereum users with a viable cross-chain bridging solution to achieve higher throughput, faster transactions, and lower fees.”
Sandeep Nailwal, co-founder of Polygon, added: “Recently surpassing Ethereum in daily active addresses, Polygon’s DeFi ecosystem has over $4 billion in total value locked. Launching PECO takes Polygon to the next stage of growth. While Polygon was initially developed as a side-chain to enable computation off the Ethereum mainnet, it has evolved to become the most popular interoperability and scaling platform for building Ethereum-compatible blockchains. With developers and NFT projects around the world flocking to Polygon, we’re seeing constant growth in the number of innovative projects that are achieving incredible success. With PECO, investors can get in early as developers work to shape the next phase of DeFi and Web3.”
Offering the highest developer support from Day 1, Polygon is the most developer-friendly platform after Ethereum, providing its rapidly growing developer community with access to their favourite tools, including Alchemy, Hardhat, Truffle, Metamask, Etherscan, and more. That’s why Polygon is witnessing a surge in innovative projects launching on its platform.
Currently, Polygon is home to the highest number of Dapps, more than 500, outside of Ethereum – including Sushiswap, Curve, Aave, Balancer, and Kyber.
Today’s announcement follows the Polygon Foundation investing $5 million in MATIC to seed the launch of PECO, with additional contributions made by Qi DAO, Adamant Finance, and DFYN.
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For more information, please contact:
James Wang @draecomino
Head of Tokens, Amun
james@amun.com
Jon Reader
Cryptoland PR for Polygon
jon@cryptolandpr.com
About Amun
Amun Limited is a technology company that simplifies access to crypto. Amun’s tokens are smart contracts that are easy to use and professionally built. All smart contracts are open-source for the benefit of the crypto community. The Amun team consists of an experienced mix of engineers, product managers, and marketers with the sole mission to bring innovative and useful instruments to the crypto market. Amun’s sister company, 21Shares AG, is the Swiss-based issuer of fully-collateralized, passive investment ETPs (trackers) of crypto assets. For more information, please visit https://amun.com/
About Polygon
Polygon is the leading platform for Ethereum scaling and infrastructure development. Its growing suite of products offers developers easy access to all major scaling and infrastructure solutions: L2 solutions (ZK Rollups and Optimistic Rollups), sidechains, hybrid solutions, stand-alone and enterprise chains, data availability solutions, and more. Polygon’s scaling solutions have seen widespread adoption with 1200+ applications hosted, ~600M total transactions processed, ~60M unique user addresses, and $5B+ in assets secured.
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