Polygon (MATIC) Crypto News Today

Prediction markets are rapidly going mainstream, and one expert argues that their simplicity could make them the first DeFi tool to achieve mass adoption.

Amina Bank has become the first regulated financial institution to offer staking for Polygon’s POL token, allowing institutional clients to earn up to 15% rewards.

Activist investor calls for Polygon to scrap 2% inflation and launch buybacks to rescue POL’s price and restore investor confidence.

AlloyX debuts a tokenized money market fund on Polygon, merging bank-custodied assets with DeFi strategies amid growing demand for real-world assets.

Polymarket, a Polygon-based prediction platform, is expanding infrastructure through a new partnership with decentralized oracle network Chainlink.

Researcher Luiz Eduardo Abreu Hadad told Coinpectra that while devs are drawn to established ecosystems, the region can create new platforms.

The bug impacted some remote procedure call (RPC) nodes, causing them to fall out of sync, but did not impact onchain block production.

Polygon faced a temporary consensus finality delay on Wednesday caused by a Bor and Erigon bug that impacted RPC services and validator syncing.

USDT0 expands to 11 networks with Polygon integration, while XAUT0 grows following its TON debut and HyperEVM integration.

Coinpectra presents “The Fight for Ethereum’s Soul,” a documentary on the future of the smart contract blockchain protocol.

The Philippine government launched a blockchain-based document validation system on Polygon, despite the network suffering a partial outage on the same day.

CryptoSlam data showed that the average sale value for NFTs climbed to $113.08, highest in six months.

The Bor layer, which handles transaction execution, did not experience any downtime and continued producing blocks, the Polygon team said.

Sygnum’s Fabian Dori says the GENIUS Act brings the U.S. closer to global consensus on stablecoin regulation, paving the way for real-world use cases.

Polygon Foundation CEO Sandeep Nailwal described the upcoming Heimdall 2.0 upgrade as the “most complex” Polygon hard fork since 2020.