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April 7, 2026 @ 6:17 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Polygon is preparing to roll out a significant network upgrade known as the Giugliano hard fork, designed to deliver noticeably quicker transaction finality across its proof-of-stake chain. Scheduled to activate on April 8 at block height 85,268,500—approximately 2 p.m. UTC—this change represents the latest step… Read More

March 26, 2026 @ 2:31 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Polygon, originally launched in 2017 as a general-purpose Ethereum scaling solution, has repositioned itself as a specialized payments blockchain in 2026. CoinGecko’s new report details how the network has strengthened its infrastructure, forged strategic partnerships, and delivered impressive on-chain activity metrics despite a broader industry… Read More

December 31, 2025 @ 2:27 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Tenderly reports that it is now an official public RPC provider for Polygon, joining the network of infrastructure partners powering one of the “most widely adopted EVM-compatible chains.” Clients may now access Tenderly’s public Polygon RPC endpoint at tenderly.rpc.polygon.community. As an “official” Polygon public RPC… Read More

November 19, 2025 @ 8:45 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Revolut, Europe’s neobank and reportedly one of the world’s fastest-growing fintech platforms, has integrated with Polygon for stablecoin transfers, payments, and trading. By November of this year, more than $690 million in volume was reportedly processed via Polygon in the Revolut app. With (reported) 65… Read More

November 17, 2025 @ 5:41 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

R25, an RWA and stablecoin protocol, launched with Polygon as its first EVM blockchain partner to bring “institutional-grade” yield to token holders. This integration brings rcUSD+ to Polygon, a yield-bearing token supported by a portfolio of assets such as money market funds and stablecoin equivalents…. Read More

October 9, 2025 @ 4:27 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Polygon has taken a step forward as the global payments chain in web3 with the Rio upgrade, which is being described as a product-focused network rehaul, now live on mainnet. As explained in the update, Rio now aims to make Polygon a lighter, more reliable,… Read More

October 9, 2025 @ 8:52 am By Omar Faridi  |  

21X, the operator of the EU-regulated on-chain trading and settlement system, and DekaBank, the securities services provider of the German Savings Banks Finance Group (Sparkassen-Finanzgruppe), announced the  completion of an on-chain trade on the Polygon testnet. This marks a step forward in their collaboration “to… Read More

April 30, 2025 @ 8:59 am By JD Alois  |  

Securitize has announced a “new chapter for institutional DeFi.” The tokenization platform has partnered with Gauntlet to enable a Real World Assets (RWA) strategy, powered by Morpho, deployed on the Polygon Network. Securitize states that the institutional-grade solution enables permissioned Apollo Diversified Credit Securitize Fund… Read More

January 2, 2025 @ 10:31 am By Omar Faridi  |  

As the year 2024 came to an end, the team at Polygon said it was clear that the past year was a mix of significant progress as well as challenges. The team at Polygon has provided a quick recap of the key developments from the… Read More

June 14, 2024 @ 6:09 pm By JD Alois  |  

Spiko, co-founded in 2023 by Paul-Adrien Hyppolite and Antoine Michon, has raised €4 million in pre-seed funding. Spiko is a tokenization platform that claims to be the first provider in the world to offer fully tokenized Money Market Funds (MMFs). The digital assets leverage both… Read More

October 30, 2023 @ 8:41 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Bitcoin Suisse, the Swiss crypto-finance technology pioneer, announced the integration of MATIC, the primary token of the Polygon ecosystem, into its custodial staking services. Bitcoin Suisse’s expanded Polygon offerings now encompass custodial staking, trading, and custody solutions for MATIC. Staking entries are accessible with “a… Read More

September 14, 2023 @ 4:08 pm By JD Alois  |  

European tokenization provider Tokeny has enabled ABN AMRO to issue a tokenized bond in an offering that is described as being the first Dutch ban to issue a green bond on a public blockchain. Tokeny shares that Vesteda raised €5 million while predicting the offering… Read More

May 8, 2023 @ 10:45 am By Omar Faridi  |  

SI Tickets, the ticketing site from Sports Illustrated, announced the launch of “Box Office by SI Tickets,” a self-service event management and primary ticketing solution built in partnership with web3 firm ConsenSys and powered by Polygon’s blockchain technology. Box Office is described as “the first… Read More

August 25, 2022 @ 1:37 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The developers of Boson Protocol are pleased to announce the introduction of Boson Protocol v2, which is described as “the breakthrough technology enabling digital to physical redemption without intermediaries is launching on Polygon.” Polygon is an Ethereum scaling platform that “enables developers to build scalable… Read More

May 4, 2022 @ 10:53 am By JD Alois  |  

Meshwap, decentralized exchange (DEX), has launched on Polygon reporting one million-plus users accessing its DeFi ecosystem. Polygon is a platform for Ethereum scaling and infrastructure development claiming 7000+ applications hosted, over 3.4 billion total transactions processed, and about 135M+ unique user addresses. Meshswap is an… Read More

March 31, 2022 @ 3:58 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The Polygon Network, a decentralized app (dApp) layer for Ethereum, has announced that “Polygon ID”, one of the first identity platforms powered by zero-knowledge (ZK) cryptography — privacy, and blockchain scaling technology, will be “ready before the year ends.” The blockchain-enabled ID for decentralized and… Read More

March 31, 2022 @ 8:23 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

Hypernet Labs, a Web3 company developing enterprise-scale NFT technology, has gone live on Polygon, a full-stack scaling solution on Ethereum, to create digitally-native IDs and functional NFTs through Hypernet.ID and Hypernet.Mint. The integration will allow Hypernet to mint millions of NFTs for companies and creators and,… Read More

March 7, 2022 @ 9:45 am By JD Alois  |  

DraftKings (Nasdaq: DKNG) has joined the Polygon ecosystem as a validator and node operator, according to a company release. DraftKings is a publicly-traded sports betting company with a valuation of around $8 billion. The relationship is via a collaboration with Zero Hash that enables DraftKings… Read More

March 5, 2022 @ 7:55 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Polygon and Tether stablecoin are reportedly backing the City of Lugano in its effort to transform this lakeside town in southern Switzerland into Europe’s “blockchain capital.” Lugano will reportedly allow citizens and companies “to use Bitcoin, Tether, and the city’s own LVGA stablecoin to pay… Read More

February 25, 2022 @ 8:41 am By JD Alois  |  

Wirex, a payments platform that enables both fiat and crypto, has added the Polygon blockchain to their non-custodial wallet, as well as the Wirex app. According to  Wirex, users will have access to the benefits of the Polygon blockchain alongside the Ethereum, Avalanche, Binance Smart… Read More