On Tuesday, Ryan Wyatt, head of gaming at YouTube, introduced he can be leaving the video-sharing platform in February. Partly attributable to his management, YouTube Gaming sees over 250 million each day logged customers per day with tons of of billions of watch time annually. Wyatt cited his ardour for blockchain and Web3 improvement in explaining his resignation. He’ll quickly be a part of Polygon Studios as its CEO.

Polygon Studios is the gaming and non-fungible tokens, or NFTs, arm of the namesake layer-two Ethereumscaling community. Polygon (MATIC)plans to commit $100 million to tasks led by its subsidiary studio, which debuted final July. The agency’s targets are to develop decentralized gaming, appeal to blockchain lovers to its NFT tokens ecosystem and set up Polygon as a reliable blockchain for the Web3 transition. Relating to his new function, Wyatt mentioned:

“I shall be specializing in rising the developer ecosystem by funding, advertising and developer help and bridging the hole between Internet 2.0 and three.0. I will be main the Polygon Studios group throughout gaming, leisure, style, information, sports activities and extra.”

It’s bittersweet information to share that I’m leaving @YouTube.

I’ve liked each minute of my time right here, however it’s time for my subsequent endeavor.

I’m elated to announce that I shall be becoming a member of @0xPolygon ($MATIC) as their CEO of Polygon Studios.

Thanks for the reminiscences! ❤️ pic.twitter.com/VhQxpqDbFO

— Ryan Wyatt (fwiz.eth) (@Fwiz) January 25, 2022

In his departure assertion, Wyatt described fond reminiscences of his first day at Google’s Mountain View, California headquarters in 2014. He additionally expressed his gratitude to CEO Susan Wojcicki and chief enterprise officer Robert Kyncl for hiring him eight years again. In the meantime, Polygon Studios gave Wyatt a heat welcome to his new function.

Please welcome our new CEO to Polygon Studios

Welcome @Fwiz to the PS household!

Ryan is the previous Head of Gaming @YouTube and we’re all wanting ahead to working with him https://t.co/NQgLqUBLPi

— Polygon Studios (@_PolygonStudios) January 25, 2022