Author Archives: Polygon Technology

Kyber launches the Rainmaker liquidity mining program on Polygon with ~$30M in rewards!

Kyber announces $30M liquidity mining program to enhance liquidity on both Ethereum and Polygon We are thrilled to announce that Kyber Network is launching its Dynamic Market Maker, a new protocol in Kyber’s liquidity hub, Kyber DMM on the Polygon network which is set to deploy on 30th June. With the vision to deliver a sustainable[Read more…]

#DeFiforAll Phase 2: Polygon DeFi Summer continues, with 85 Million+ USD Liquidity Rewards for Aave’s Polygon Markets

TL;DR: We are changing the emission schedule for Phase 2 of MATIC rewards on Aave Polygon markets. $85M+ USD in rewards will be rewarded to users as part of Liquidity Mining on the Aave Polygon markets over the next 7 months Since the Polygon launch of Aave, the open-source and non-custodial protocol where users can lend and[Read more…]

UMA is scaling to Polygon!

June 17, 2021- We are excited to announce that UMA, a decentralized financial contracts platform, will be scaling with Polygon. UMA provides open-source infrastructure for developers to build synthetic assets quickly, flexibly, and securely on Ethereum Blockchain. With Polygon scaling solution, UMA’s developers can enjoy a seamless experience while building synthetic assets. The infrastructure of UMA comprises[Read more…]

Polygon Builder Series vol.1 — Hsuan-Ting Furucombo

Polygon Builder Series is a video and blog series where our host Nemo talks with fellow builders on Polygon. Our first guest is Hsuan-Ting from Furucombo. Furucombo is a tool built for end-users to optimize their DeFi strategy simply by drag and drop. It visualizes complex DeFi protocols into cubes. Users setup inputs/outputs and the order of the cubes (a[Read more…]

Polygon Research: Ethereum Scaling with Rollups

Special thanks to Ed Felten, John Adler, and Georgios Konstantopoulos for review. With the wide adoption of Ethereum, we see a steady increase in submitted transactions on Ethereum, leading to higher gas prices as transactions fight for limited space in the block. This has led to various Layer-2 (L2) solutions that aim to process a[Read more…]

Introducing PolygonScan: A Fast and Scalable Blockchain Explorer for Polygon, powered by Etherscan!

Blockchain explorers are one of the most widely used tools in crypto, drawing data from a blockchain and presenting the data to a user in a searchable and accessible format. Etherscan.io is by far the most popular blockchain explorer for Ethereum with highly loved features like the Gas Tracker, Developer APIs, ERC-20 and ERC-721 token[Read more…]

Project Spotlight: Aavegotchi — A Tamagotchi inspired NFT+DeFi+DAO Gaming Experience

Polygon’s vibrant ecosystem of projects and Dapps has led to wide adoption with more than 176M transactions and 1.2M unique users thanks to 400+ brilliant decentralized applications. Introducing Project Spotlight: an initiative to highlight and get to know the Dapps on Polygon a little better! Our third project in this series is Aavegotchi: a fun and vibrant[Read more…]

Improving user experience in the Multi-Chain world via Hop Protocol with Liquidity Mining Rewards at launch

June 8, 2021 — Polygon, the full-stack scaling solution for Ethereum, formerly known as Matic Network, has announced a 200,000$ Liquidity Program with Hop Protocol to connect Polygon to the Multi-Chain world. Hop’s vision is to connect the fragmented Layer-2 landscape and enable seamless asset transfers and composability between DeFi applications on various networks. The Hop protocol provides a scalable token[Read more…]

Sushiswap, Slingshot and Polygon Team Up to Bring DeFi Summer-Inspired Mural!

Sushiswap, Slingshot, and Polygon teamed up to create a 16 feet by 20 feet mural near the Museum of Graffiti in Wynwood at 250 NW 25th Street. Sushiswap, a community run AMM, Slingshot, a DEX aggregator and Polygon, a multi-chain full stack scaling solution are three companies that have all collaborated in the past and the three companies[Read more…]

BadgerDAO and Polygon Bring Bitcoin to Polygon!

BadgerDAO is excited to launch on Polygon to accelerate the adoption and utility of Bitcoin on its network. With BadgerDAO’s mission to bring BTC to DeFi, the BadgerDAO team wanted to make it as easy as possible for users to put their Bitcoin to work where there is utility. Polygon has seen explosive growth in the last[Read more…]