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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

February 7, 2022 @ 8:22 pm By JD Alois  |  

Sequoia Capital India has led a $450 million funding round for Polygon. Polygon is a platform for Ethereum scaling and infrastructure development. The company reports widespread adoption with 7,000+ applications hosted, 1B+ total transactions processed, approximately 130 million unique user addresses, and over $5 billion… Read More

January 26, 2022 @ 4:56 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

Polygon’s hopes for Polygon Studios got a major boost this week as they added a former YouTube executive to lead its efforts. Ryan Wyatt is leaving the video service after more than seven years to run Polygon Studios, where he will focus on growing its… Read More

January 13, 2022 @ 12:28 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The Metaverse and the GameFi world have grown tremendously, with nearly every blockchain  ecosystem in the crypto space getting more actively involved. Polygon (POLY) ecosystem’s capabilities of building and connecting different blockchains and dApps is being supported by the launch of Polygon Studios, which is… Read More

December 9, 2021 @ 5:48 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

Polygon, Ethereum’s most used scaling platform, today announced a $400 million deal with zero-knowledge (ZK) startup Mir as part of the next step in scaling Ethereum and bringing millions of users to Web 3. With this acquisition, Polygon said it gains access to the world’s… Read More

November 19, 2021 @ 1:08 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

Cryptocurrency exchange-traded products (ETP) issuer 21Shares this week announced the seed funding of the 21Shares Polygon ETP (Ticker: POLY) on the SIX Swiss Exchange by the Polygon Foundation. The 21Shares Polygon ETP (Ticker: POLY) tracks the investment results of Polygon, an Ethereum scaling platform. Hosting… Read More

October 19, 2021 @ 8:30 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Polygon, an Ethereum-powered scaling platform on-boarding consumers to Web 3.0, has announced a blockchain collaboration with DraftKings Marketplace, a digital collectibles ecosystem built by DraftKings (Nasdaq: DKNG) for “mainstream accessibility to support custom NFT drops along with secondary-market transactions.” This deal offers DraftKings Marketplace with… Read More

September 17, 2021 @ 9:12 am By Omar Faridi  |  

EY, an international consulting and tech firm, is working with Polygon on developing and implementing scaling and enterprise services for the Ethereum (ETH) ecosystem. As part of this collaboration, EY and Polygon will be working cooperatively on Polygon Nightfall, a public, privacy-oriented Rollup. EY will… Read More

September 10, 2021 @ 12:45 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

Polygon, an Ethereum-based full-stack scaling solution bringing mass adoption to the Ethereum platform, announced Aragon Client, an Ethereum-based project focused on the creation and management of decentralized autonomous organizations (DAO), is now live on the Polygon PoS network. The growth of Web 3.0 communities has… Read More

September 10, 2021 @ 9:39 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

Dharma, an Ethereum wallet that directly connects with users’ banks, has completed its integration with the Polygon network. The integration will now enable users to purchase virtually any DeFi token directly from their US-based bank account without paying gas fees. Full Dharma wallet support for… Read More

September 1, 2021 @ 9:34 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

Polygon, an Ethereum-based full-stack scaling solution, today announced Kine Protocol, a decentralized protocol that establishes general-purpose liquidity pools backed by a customizable portfolio of digital assets, will launch its cross-chain derivatives trading platform on Polygon. Polygon’s high-speed and low-gas infrastructure makes Kine’s features – including… Read More

September 1, 2021 @ 3:40 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

Cryptocurrency platform Okcoin and Polygon, an Ethereum scaling full-stack solution, this week announced the listing of Polygon’s native MATIC token on Okcoin as of Sept. 1. The listing is accompanied by an exclusive Polygon-minted NFT release from 10 members of The Most Famous Artist (TMFA)… Read More

August 22, 2021 @ 2:34 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

Polygon, an Ethereum scaling full-stack solution bringing mass adoption to the Ethereum platform, today announced plans to create a decentralized autonomous organization (DAO) for DeFi and Web3. Polygon proposes the DAO to bootstrap DeFi growth and help onboard the next 100 million users to its… Read More

August 19, 2021 @ 7:50 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

Wallfair and Polygon have launched their MVP 1.1 platform, offering streamers another way to maximize value through content creation.  Phase one saw Wallfair host a live event by giving first round testers the ability to highlight issues and potential feature aspects of the platform. Information… Read More

August 14, 2021 @ 3:19 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The teams at Polygon and Hermez Network have reportedly agreed on a “public network merge.” This development has come just a few weeks after discussions and has been possible because of the “great level” of harmony between both teams, which “share the common goal of… Read More

July 28, 2021 @ 3:59 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

Developers can now provide Polygon’s USDC token via the Polygon ecosystem thanks to the use of Wyre’s Checkout API. This integration provides one of the only fiat to USDC on-ramps for customers around the world and in 43 US states, with the conversion process taking less… Read More

July 15, 2021 @ 6:46 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Polygon has partnered with Community Gaming in order to enable scalable E-sports tournaments. Built for grassroots tournament organizers, Community Gaming’s platform has been designed to  make it easier to develop custom e-sports tournaments within minutes with preconfigured payments. As noted in a release shared with… Read More

July 2, 2021 @ 8:21 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Balancer has joined Polygon’s summer of DeFi with $10 million in joint token incentives. Balancer Protocol has introduced support on the Layer 2 solution Polygon in order to lower gas costs. Polygon (MATIC) has experienced steady user adoption in 2021 with major decentralized finance (DeFi)… Read More

April 20, 2021 @ 7:52 am By JD Alois  |  

Tokeny Solutions, a tech platform for issuers to tokenize assets, has partnered with Polygon to further streamline the process of tokenizing compliant securities. According to a note from the company, the partnership will allow asset issuers to create security tokens in a cost-effective and scalable… Read More