Polygon
Polygon Doubles Down on Gaming and NFTs with $100M Fund
Polygon is raising a $100M fund to support blockchain game developers and NFT creators, and tapping the chops of Atari, the trailblazer that gave the world Pong, Space Invaders, and Asteroids. Polygon has already attracted over 100 NFT and gaming projects, according to awesomepolygon.com. But now the scaling solution is pursuing a far more ambitious…
Adamant Targets Alameda With Contentious Governance Vote
What a can of worms. This weekend, Adamant Finance, a yield aggregator on Polygon, initiated a governance vote to “blacklist” wallets it said belong to Alameda Research, a crypto hedge fund that trades up to $10B a day in tokens and derivatives. The fallout has been fast and furious. The action came in response to…
Polygon Compromised? How to Revoke Token Approvals
User’s of the Zapper-Matic/ Polygon bridge have been experiencing issues recently. In this tutorial we demonstrate how to revoke token approvals using Polygonscan.
Malt Leaves Investors Hungover as Algo Stable Depegs on Day 2
Who doesn’t love a money printer? Algo Season 2.0 is here. Last Friday, Malt Protocol launched the latest entry in the algorithmic stablecoin market. This summer, investors have flocked to this corner of the DeFi space to ride out the selloff in the larger crypto universe. Polygon is currently the favored choice of yield farmers…
Polygon to Ethereum UNDER 2 minutes: Hop Protocol
Hop is a protocol for sending tokens across rollups and their shared layer-1 network in a quick and trustless manner.
Mark Cuban Sends Polygon Soaring As Glitch Pings MATIC
Mark Cuban still has the touch. Even as the crypto market continues to recover from last week’s crash, the price of Polygon (MATIC) has soared 25% in the last seven days. The trigger: On May 25, news broke that Cuban had invested in the next-generation Ethereum player. The performance trounced Bitcoin’s 4.8% rise in the…
Polygon’s Rise Comes with Increased Scrutiny of the Scaling Solution’s Security
Polygon, which in the past month soared to become the most popular Ethereum scaling solution, is coming under fire as critics say it is too centralized to be considered secure. Ethereum scaling solutions are crucial for decentralized finance to continue to grow, as using dapps directly on the network is becoming prohibitively expensive. Scaling solutions…
Polygon Co-Founder Raises $3M in Crypto for India Covid Relief
As coronavirus cases spiked to over 300K new cases per day in India, the co-founder of Layer 2 solution Polygon, Sandeep Nailwal, tweeted on April 24 that he “can’t take this sitting down anymore,” and started the India Covid Crypto Relief Fund, which has raised over $3M as of April 27. The donated funds span…
Polygon Takes Lead in Layer 2 Race as MATIC Token and Assets Soar
Polygon’s token is rising the most among all cryptocurrencies in the past 24 hours, while assets in its networks spike. The activity is a sign an increasing number of users are betting the project will become a leading Ethereum scaling solution. Polygon’s MATIC token is up more than 30% just in the past day, the…
