Liquid restaking protocol Swell has announced that its Layer 2 is migrating to the Optimism Superchain. Swell said it would move away from the Polygon Chain Development Kit (CDK) as part of this strategic transition. Swell Layer 2 Transitions According to the official blog post, Swell is set to provide restaking yield and security functions...Read More
According to a Sept. 23 report by tech outlet The Information citing ‘people familiar with the matter,’ the blockchain prediction platform is in talks to raise $50 million in funding. The New York-based company is also considering issuing its own token to run its betting market, with potential funding round investors receiving warrants to buy...Read More
Matter Labs, the developer behind the ZkSync Ethereum Layer 2 network, has decided to abandon its efforts to trademark the term “ZK.” In an update on June 3rd, Matter Labs said its decision to abandon its efforts to trademark the term “ZK” stems from the reasoning that it is “impossible to agree on a group...Read More
Polygon has witnessed a remarkable surge in its stablecoin market capitalization this quarter. According to the latest report from Messari, the Ethereum Layer 2 solution’s stablecoin market cap soared to a whopping $1.5 billion, reflecting a significant 19% increase on a quarter-over-quarter basis. Stablecoin Adoption on Polygon Soars Tether’s solidified its position as the dominant stablecoin...Read More
Ethereum and its Layer 2 scaling solution, Polygon, attracted the most new users by far in the first quarter of 2024. The latest report by Flipside revealed that these two blockchain platforms have garnered the most cumulative new users among observed EVM chains since the beginning of the year. Polygon boasted 12.3 million new users,...Read More
Polygon Labs CEO Marc Boiron has voiced his discontent with layer-3 (L3) networks, saying their existence is taking away Ethereum’s value. His statement comes amid growing excitement around L3 networks such as Degen Chain, which are built on top of L2s to facilitate application-specific dApps that offer solutions such as scaling, costs, and interoperability. How...Read More
Polygon Labs – the main development team behind the Ethereum scaling network Polygon (MATIC) – has laid off 19% of its workforce in an attempt to create a more “efficient surgical team.” Though 60 employees were laid off in the process, the remaining workers have been granted a minimum 15% salary raise, effective as of...Read More
Mark Cuban recently took to X on Monday afternoon for a spontaneous Ask Me Anything (AMA) session with his 8.8 million followers, where he touched on various topics, including crypto-related ones. When asked about his preferred cryptocurrency ventures beyond Bitcoin and Ethereum, Mark Cuban highlighted Polygon and Injective, declaring, “I’ve invested in both (DYOR).” Dallas...Read More
Polygon, a layer-2 scaling network, nearly matched Ethereum’s user base in 2023, as reported by blockchain analytics firm Flipside. Polygon acquired 15.24 million users that year, coming close to Ethereum’s 15.4 million, with a difference of around 160,000 wallets. Polygon Topped User Acquisition in First Half of 2023 Flipside defines an “acquired” user as someone...Read More
Polygon Labs has discontinued contributions to its Edge platform which is designed to build custom Ethereum-compatible blockchain networks. This decision reflects the company’s plans to prioritize the expansion of the Polygon Chain Development Kit (CDK), the open-source development toolkit for building ZK-powered Layer 2 chains on Ethereum for both Web3 projects and Web2 enterprises. Polygon...Read More
Chainlink has announced that its price feeds are now live on the zero-knowledge (ZK) scaling solution, Polygon zkEVM. The latest development essentially aims to allow developers to build advanced DeFi applications. Chainlink Data Feeds’s functionality allows DeFi developers to tap external price data to develop and launch highly effective liquidity protocols and advanced decentralized exchanges,...Read More
The crypto market anticipates a bullish trend in the next few months, with the upcoming Bitcoin halving. During this period, several altcoins went on solid rallies. One such is MATIC, a Layer-2 Ethereum scaling token, which has observed a noteworthy increase in its price, surpassing the $0.80 threshold for the first time since July 2023....Read More
On-chain data shows that the Solana network has surpassed the layer-2 Ethereum-based scalability blockchain Polygon in daily decentralized exchange (DEX) trading volume. According to charts on the digital assets data platform Artemis XYZ, Solana currently has a daily DEX trading volume of $240.47 million, while Polygon sits at $137.49 million. Solana Flips Polygon In Daily...Read More
Polygon Labs has announced that the POL token upgrade is now live on the Ethereum mainnet. The upgrade to POL has been initiated on the Ethereum mainnet following several months of development, community consultation, and a successful testnet launch. POL Token Upgrade Goes Live Even though POL has been deployed on the mainnet, this does...Read More
Jaynti Kanani, one of the co-founders of Polygon, recently announced that he would be stepping back from his day-to-day involvement with the project. This announcement arrives when developers are involved in realizing Polygon 2.0, a project aimed at seamlessly integrating zero-knowledge proofs. Kanani Announces Departure from Polygon Kanani, who played a pivotal role in the...Read More
Polygon Labs has suggested that the Celo blockchain community consider utilizing its Chain Development Kit (CDK) to streamline the intended layer-2 migration on the Ethereum network. The proposal comes after cLabs, the primary development team behind Celo, unveiled an alternative strategy in July to transition its layer-1 into an Ethereum-compatible layer-2 solution by utilizing Optimism’s...Read More
Cosmos-based layer-1 blockchain – Canto – is migrating to a zero-knowledge layer 2 on Ethereum powered by Polygon Chain Development Kit (CDK). The move aligns with Canto’s plans to build a blockchain dedicated to real-world assets. The development comes amidst a significant shift in the Ethereum layer-2 space. Migration to Ethereum ZK-powered L2 Canto is...Read More
Polygon has doubled down its efforts to create an interconnected layer-2 Ethereum ecosystem powered by zero-knowledge technology for its recently unveiled Polygon 2.0’s roadmap. As such, Polygon Labs – the organization behind the scaling solution – has released three PIPs. The implementation will, however, begin as early as Q4 of this year if the community...Read More
The developers on Polygon zkEVM will now have access to multi-source, aggregated data feeds served directly on-chain by leading data providers. Polygon zkEVM is all set to welcome managed data feed service, which will be introduced by blockchain oracle provider, API3. The end goal is to support the growth of TVL on the network. Besides the...Read More
Prominent Ethereum scaling solution – Polygon – has unveiled a new proposal that seeks to switch the network’s MATIC token with POL. The transition is part of its recently released Polygon 2.0 roadmap. According to the official announcement, a group of founders and researchers of the Polygon ecosystem has published a white paper proposing POL,...Read More
Cryptocurrency exchange Binance’s non-fungible token arm – Binance NFT – has announced adding support for the Polygon network on March 8th. The integration of the Polygon network will enable users to explore and trade a wider variety of NFTs across multiple blockchains. This includes – BNB Smart Chain (BSC), Ethereum (ETH) network, as well as...Read More
Tom Dunleavy – Senior Research Analyst at Messari – thinks there is a bright future for the blockchain platform Polygon. It has shown significant growth over the past few years, increasing the number of its developers and attracting some major institutions. Dunleavy took it to Twitter to lay out the most notable recent achievements of...Read More
DeGods and y00ts – have announced their departure from Solana and revealed that they would be migrating to Ethereum and Polygon. The two top NFT projects on Solana anticipate moving to new chains in the first quarter of 2023, according to their respective updates on Twitter. The duo stated, “The details of the bridge will...Read More
As part of the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) Project Guardian pilot, JPMorgan completed the first live cross-border transaction using Polygon on November 2. MAS’ Project Guardian initiative aims to explore ways traditional financial institutions can leverage tokenized assets and decentralized finance (DeFi) protocols to execute financial transactions, among other use cases. Milestone for JPMorgan...Read More
An Indian district, Firozabad, about 40 km from Agra of Taj Mahal’s fame in the Indian province of Uttar Pradesh, would start the registration of complaints police complaints on the blockchain network. The district, with 2.4 million people and 21 police stations, aims to achieve immutability and transparency of complaints lodged by victims of crime...Read More
Ethereum pulled off a stunning technical upgrade that saw the popular blockchain transition to the proof-of-stake consensus model for processing transactions after six years of work. However, post-merge activity on layer-2 has dropped. According to the latest stats by Dapp Radar, the already descending unique active wallets and transactions have further dropped by 35% from...Read More
As prices slumped and markets crashed during 2022, many companies in the blockchain sphere were forced to lay off staff. This was not limited to the now infamous firms that were at the heart of the crash – even major, otherwise, well-managed firms like Coinbase, Gemini, or OpenSea were forced to cut operational costs, both...Read More
Polygon Network has shown solid resilience in the difficult period of crypto assets plunging in value. According to its Q2 report, the Ethereum scaling platform witnessed steady growth in the number of network addresses and transaction volume despite the broader market selloff during the same period. Steady Growth in the Winter Known as a sidechain...Read More
Leading Ethereum scaling network Polygon has launched its Zero-Knowledge Ethereum Virtual Machine (Polygon zkEVM), a new Ethereum-equivalent scaling solution based on Zero Knowledge (ZK) proofs. Polygon Launches New Scaling Solution The ZK proofs technology batches transactions in groups before communicating the information to the Ethereum blockchain as a single transaction request. The gas fee for...Read More
A plethora of NFT projects, devs, and their ecosystems were left stranded in the Terra wreckage. Two months later, almost 50 crypto projects and their coders based on the fallen network have now found a new home in Polygon. The projects include P2E metaverse, Lunaverse, the A.I. generated NFT universe, DystopAI, and Terra’s more successful...Read More
