Ryan Wyatt, the head of gaming at YouTube, has put down his papers and will be leaving the video-sharing platform in February.
In a tweet on January 25, Wyatt said that he would be joining Polygon Studios as the chief executive officer (CEO).
Polygon Studios is the gaming and non-fungible token (NFT) arm of Polygon, earlier known as MATIC, the namesake layer-two Ethereum scaling network. The crypto company plans to commit $100 million to projects led by its subsidiary studio.
Wyatt joined YouTube in 2014 and would be with YouTube until the end of February.
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Interestingly, on the same day, YouTube’s CEO Susan Wojcicki said in a blogpost, “We’re also looking further ahead to the future and have been following everything happening in Web3 as a source of inspiration to continue innovating on YouTube.”
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“The past year in the world of crypto, nonfungible tokens (NFTs), and even decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs) has highlighted a previously unimaginable opportunity to grow the connection between creators and their fans. We’re always focused on expanding the YouTube ecosystem to help creators capitalize on emerging technologies, including things like NFTs, while continuing to strengthen and enhance the experiences creators and fans have on YouTube,” said the post.
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