DraftKings Steps Further Into Crypto With Plans to Become Polygon Validator

DraftKings Steps Further Into Crypto With Plans to Become Polygon Validator
DraftKings tapped Polygon for its marquee non-fungible token (NFT) release with Tom Brady’s Autograph back in August.Now the sports betting giant is going all-in on the Ethereum layer-2 solution with a partnership that could make it one of the blockchain’s largest governors.DraftKings, valued at nearly $20 billion on the public market, is planning to use Polygon to support custom NFT drops and secondary-market transactions.“Scalability and sustainability remain among the critical challenges of blockchain technology,” Paul Liberman, president of global product and technology at DraftKings, said in a statement Monday. “Although DraftKings Marketplace is still in its nascency, we are bullish…