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Apply to Polygon Bootcamp Africa and Kickstart Your Web3 Developer Journey

Applications are open for Polygon Bootcamp Africa, launched in partnership with Xend Finance! The eight-week intensive educational course and hackathon combo will put developers in Africa on the Web3 map.  This is Polygon’s biggest step in providing resources to developers, builders, and creators in Africa, and it comes during an important time.  An internet and […] The post Apply to Polygon Bootcamp Africa and Kickstart Your Web3 Developer Journey appeared first on Polygon | Blog.

ZK White Paper: Efficient ZK Proofs for Keccak

By Angus Gruen This post is part of a series of technical papers designed to better communicate to the Ethereum community the work of Polygon’s zero-knowledge (ZK) teams. We hope that everyone who’s interested in the inner workings of Polygon’s ZK projects, Ethereum itself, and cryptographic engineering in general will be able to learn something […] The post ZK White Paper: Efficient ZK Proofs for Keccak appeared first on Polygon | Blog.

TagSpace Taps Polygon to Bring Mixed Reality to Web3

TagSpace, a metaverse platform that delivers real world, mixed reality experiences for festivals, large events, and city exploration, has chosen Polygon as its entrypoint to Web3. TagSpace aims to tap the power of blockchain technology to let users create, share, and monetize their own experiences. With Polygon’s environmentally-friendly chain, tagSpace users can do so while […] The post TagSpace Taps Polygon to Bring Mixed Reality to Web3 appeared first on Polygon | Blog.

PolygonInsights – WEEK37

Hola readers! The community celebrated the successful long-awaited Ethereum merge, Starbucks and Polygon are working on the ‘Starbucks® Odyssey’ Web3 Experience, allowing Starbucks Rewards loyalty program members and partners to earn and purchase NFT collectibles, and $MATIC is now listed on Binance Card in Argentina. Let’s dive in. Key takeaways:  Weekly active users bounced back […] The post PolygonInsights – WEEK37 appeared first on Polygon | Blog.

Polygon Studios and ITSBLOC Join Forces to Level Up Blockchain Gaming 

Polygon Studios is working with ITSBLOC, a Web3 gaming platform, to empower a new generation of play-to-earn (P2E) Web3 games. Low quality and unstable economics are key resistance points preventing gamers from embracing Web3 games. All too often, P2E models suffer from excessive focus on earning and hyper-inflationary economic design at the cost of actual […] The post Polygon Studios and ITSBLOC Join Forces to Level Up Blockchain Gaming  appeared first on Polygon | Blog.

Multsig Best Practices to Maximize Transaction Security

Imagine a safe-deposit box with multiple locks. Each lock has a key that a different person holds, and the only way to open the box is to provide all the keys at the same time. Such a box can be very secure for storing your assets, provided you follow some best practices.  This is essentially […] The post Multsig Best Practices to Maximize Transaction Security appeared first on Polygon | Blog.

Polygon Enables Instant USDC On-Ramps for Juno Users

Juno, which allows its users to earn, invest and spend their cash and crypto from one checking account, now supports instant on-ramps to USDC on Polygon. Juno App users can now purchase, sell, transfer, and receive USDC on Polygon without paying transaction fees. Users can instantly convert their fiat funds to USDC on Polygon by […] The post Polygon Enables Instant USDC On-Ramps for Juno Users appeared first on Polygon | Blog.

How NFTs Benefit the Artists You Know and Love

Finding success as a traditional artist has always meant navigating the closed-off world of the gallery-dealer complex. An artist who doesn’t come from a privileged background or runs in well-connected circles, has little hope of gaining traction. And if their art happens to be digital, they are pretty much straight out of luck. Non fungible […] The post How NFTs Benefit the Artists You Know and Love appeared first on Polygon | Blog.

PolygonInsights – Bridge Flows Jan-Aug 2022

From January to August 2022, more than $11 Bn has entered the Polygon ecosystem from multiple chains. Ethereum ($8.2 Bn+), Fantom Opera ($1.06 Bn+), and Binance ($863 Mn+) have had substantial inflow contributions and while January ($590 Mn+) recorded the highest net volume, there was a sharp decrease in February followed by a revival in […] The post PolygonInsights – Bridge Flows Jan-Aug 2022 appeared first on Polygon | Blog.

The Many Lives of Tokens

Tokens are the élan vital of Web3 networks, and projects are often perceived through the price at which they trade. But token price, subject to market sentiment and speculation, is not synonymous with token value. To understand the fundamentals, we must first unpack the different ways that value accrues to tokens in the new Internet […] The post The Many Lives of Tokens appeared first on Polygon | Blog.