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…]
Category Archives: Polygon news
Polygon news
Introducing PolygonScan: A Fast and Scalable Blockchain Explorer for Polygon, powered by Etherscan!
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Jun
Jun
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…]
Polygon news, Polygon Projects
Project Spotlight: Aavegotchi — A Tamagotchi inspired NFT+DeFi+DAO Gaming Experience
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Jun
Jun
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…]
Polygon news
Improving user experience in the Multi-Chain world via Hop Protocol with Liquidity Mining Rewards at launch
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Jun
Jun
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…]
Polygon news, Polygon Projects
Sushiswap, Slingshot and Polygon Team Up to Bring DeFi Summer-Inspired Mural!
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Jun
Jun
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…]
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Jun
Jun
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…]
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Jun
Jun
The 0x API is live on Polygon, aggregating liquidity across all existing sources — including QuickSwap, SushiSwap, Curve, Dodo, mStable, Dfyn, Cometh and more. Developers can access 0x’s documentation and start building on Polygon with 0x API today. The 0x API is designed to make it easy for DeFi developers to tap into DEX liquidity in a fast, reliable, and easy to use[Read more…]
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May
May
Hosted by Google Cloud as a financial services public dataset, the Polygon blockchain dataset has been listed in the Google Cloud Marketplace, and can be found here. Polygon aims to serve as an internet-of-blockchains for Ethereum, bringing massive scale to Ethereum via the Polygon SDK, supporting both standalone blockchains and secured blockchains. This dataset is part of a larger effort to make cryptocurrency[Read more…]
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May
May
RenVM enables the direct bridging of assets onto Polygon, for high-speed, low-cost txns. Read the blogpost and tutorial from Ren Protocol here. We are proud to announce that RenVM’s first direct bridge will support Polygon, giving users the advantage of faster transaction confirmation times and lower fees. With this integration, the RenVM Bridge has added support for Polygon on[Read more…]
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May
May
We’re thrilled to announce that Upshot is bringing crowdsourced NFT appraisals to Polygon! While the NFT space is in a massive boom the last few months, the valuations are still tricky and highly subjective. Enter Upshot, a protocol that pays experts for honest insights, enabling real-time NFT appraisals. Polygon’s NFT ecosystem has been rapidly growing with more than 100+ NFT Dapps including[Read more…]