Polygon, on Wednesday, took the crypto community by storm after it announced that its CEO Mark Boiron was stepping down from his position. The company essentially implied that an AI agent dubbed M.A.R.C. was taking Boiron’s place to head the company.
In the first glimpse, the announcement looked rather serious with Polygon citing statistics to support its strange decision.
“Internal benchmarks show the agent is 10 tiimes faster, cheaper, and has more seamless integration with our stack. The board felt this was an obvious decision,” Polygon said, thanking Boiron for his services.
The platform went on to add that the AI agent has been trained on every podcast appearance, argument, and panels that Boiron had ever been part of.
Given that the announcement date was chosen as April 1, suspicions of this being an April Fool’s day prank started to arise on social media. Another element that kind of gave away a prank vibe was the name that Polygon gave this apparent AI CEO.
The acronym M.A.R.C, Polygon said, expanded to “Machine Autonomously Running Corporation”.
It seems that Polygon’s apparent snark is a dig at the recent news of Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg working on an agentic AI co-CEO to assist him in running day to day company tasks.
Boiron joined the announcement saying, “I did not step down. I was removed by a f’ing machine.”
While Polygon has not confirmed if this indeed was a shade on Zuckerberg, a company spokesperson did confirm that it definitely was an April Fool’s Day prank.
Surprisingly, the joke did hit the Polygon prices hard. At press time, the POL token was trading at $0.094 having clocked a price hike of 6.4 percent over the last day, as per CoinMarketCap.
All’s well that end’s well, right?