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Polygon Draft Would Give Labs a New Route to Upgrade Contracts
PIP-93 would consolidate upgrade powers under an 8-of-11 Security Council, with a seven-day delay for Polygon Labs proposals.

Polygon Proposal Seeks Hard Fork to Recover 70.49 Million POL
Funds tied to the Polymarket and Binance incidents would go to recovery wallets, without changing POL’s total supply.

Polygon Plans Two-Month Boost to 7.7% Gross POL Staking Rate
The fee-funded increase compares with a roughly 3% baseline and rewards stake held during the window, rather than when the fees accrued.

Polygon Prepares Permissionless Burn of 100 Million POL
Contracts are on testnet and await final Security Council signatures, with later base-fee burns set to become community-callable each quarter, Sandeep Nailwal said.

Polygon Turns Kansai Electric Loyalty Points Into JPYC Spending
Rewards earned in the utility giant's MOACT app now convert into Japan's regulated yen stablecoin, usable across DeFi through HashPort Wallet.

Polygon Labs Cuts Staff Again as It Closes Coinme Deal
CEO Marc Boiron said the reductions, the company's second round in 2026, accompany a shift from a blockchain foundation to a blockchain-enabled payments company.

Polygon Launches Shielded USDC and USDT Payments
The Polygon wallet now offers a "Privately Send" option that hides sender, receiver, and amount onchain, with KYT screening built into every transfer.

Meta Launches Stablecoin Payouts In Colombia And The Philippines
The social media giant has rolled out USDC payments via Stripe on Solana and Polygon.

Hardware Wallet Tangem Announces Global Rollout of Its Retail Payments Service
Tangem Pay lets users spend USDC directly from their self-custodial Tangem wallets, settling all transactions on Polygon.

Polygon Launches Native Liquid Staking Token
The token lets stakers keep their POL productive in DeFi while earning a share of the network's priority fees.





