Polygon

Polymarket International, a Polygon-based prediction market platform, saw its total value locked increase 16% to nearly $498 million, reflecting growing investor interest in event-based betting markets.

Polymarket International's total value locked jumped 15.4% to $493.3M today, reflecting sustained interest in decentralized prediction markets on Polygon.

Polygon's rebranded POL token is showing an 8.9% price difference across major exchanges, suggesting potential arbitrage opportunities or liquidity imbalances on certain trading venues.

Polymarket's TVL on Polygon fell 21.4% to $445.9M on May 1, even as the platform launched a wave of new AI prediction markets. Over $6.3M in volume flowed into markets betting on which AI company will have the best model by end of June 2026, with xAI, DeepSeek, Google, and Anthropic drawing the largest bets. The TVL decline may signal capital rotation into these trending markets rather than an exodus from the platform.

Polygon has launched sPOL, its native liquid staking token, enabling users to stake POL tokens and earn rewards while maintaining liquidity. The feature expands Polygon's staking ecosystem and gives users more flexibility compared to traditional locked staking.

Polygon announced that pUSD, a new stablecoin, is coming to its network. The announcement marks another expansion of Polygon's stablecoin ecosystem, though limited details were provided in the initial post.

Polygon's Giugliano upgrade went live on mainnet and is already showing strong results: finality improved by ~1.5 seconds, fee estimation sharpened for payment apps, and a new prefetch mechanism could unlock 2–3x more scaling headroom toward 7,000+ TPS. The update positions Polygon as a top settlement layer for onchain commerce.

Polygon launched a new suite of on-chain FX liquidity pools in partnership with Frax, Curve, and DFB DeFi today. Six stablecoin pairs are live with frxUSD as the base currency, aiming to enable deeper cross-border payment infrastructure on-chain.

Polygon announced today that Revolut, one of the world's most-used fintech apps, has chosen Polygon's infrastructure to power its crypto services including send, receive, and hold functionality. The partnership signals growing institutional adoption of Polygon's scaling solution for consumer-facing crypto applications.

Polygon has activated ERC-7715 on its network, allowing developers to implement scoped permission models for MetaMask-connected agents and dApps. The standard enables more granular control over what permissions decentralized applications can request from users, potentially improving security and user experience for agent-based applications.

Polygon shared an explainer on the 'stablecoin sandwich' model, where fiat converts to stablecoins for cross-border settlement without either party touching crypto directly. The post highlights stablecoins' emerging role as a bridge between traditional finance and blockchain infrastructure.

Polygon announced that T-REX, a tokenized securities platform, has selected Polygon CDK to build its own blockchain, citing the need for compliance tooling and security options tailored to regulated assets. The move signals growing adoption of Polygon's chain-building infrastructure for RWA applications.

Polygon announced it processed 35% of all global USD-based stablecoin transfers last week, handling 168 million transactions in seven days. The milestone underscores Polygon's growing role as a primary settlement layer for stablecoin activity, positioning it as a key infrastructure player in cross-border payment flows.

Polygon announced its stablecoin supply reached a new all-time high of $3.6 billion, reflecting growing adoption of stablecoins on the Ethereum layer-2 network. The milestone comes as global stablecoin supply surpassed $315 billion in Q1 2026, with layer-2 networks capturing an increasing share of this growth.

Polygon has joined the x402 foundation, a new initiative backed by Coinbase, AWS, Google, Stripe, Mastercard, and Visa to build seamless global payment infrastructure. The foundation aims to enable frictionless money movement for agents, APIs, and applications, marking a major institutional push into blockchain-based payments.

Polygon highlighted the migration of real-dollar payments to blockchain infrastructure on Tuesday, with commentary from ecosystem lead Aishwary. The announcement reflects growing institutional adoption of stablecoin payment rails across layer-1 networks.

Polymarket's total value locked crashed 41.2% to $269.7M in the past 24 hours, signaling significant outflows from the Polygon-based prediction market platform. The decline follows the platform's recent market resolutions and comes amid broader crypto market weakness, though the exact driver remains unclear.

Polygon has become the dominant blockchain for Latin American crypto activity, processing $730B in annual volume with 89% of that driven by local-currency stablecoin transactions, according to new data released by the network. The trend underscores growing institutional and retail adoption of blockchain-based money movement in the region.

Polygon announced today that it has settled more in stablecoins than the entire global remittance market moves annually, underlining its emergence as a primary infrastructure layer for institutional payments. The milestone reflects accelerating adoption of stablecoins as settlement rails, with platforms like Revolut and institutional players leveraging Polygon for cheaper, faster cross-border transfers.

Polygon research reveals stablecoin payment rails reduce remittance costs to under 1% for US-Mexico transfers, compared to the $13 average via traditional methods—a 93% cost reduction that underscores stablecoins' growing role in cross-border payments.

Polygon announced it has reached 100,000 checkpoints on Ethereum$1,686.33, marking nearly six years of continuous security proofs for the network's settlement layer. The milestone underscores Polygon's role in powering stablecoin transfers and institutional settlement infrastructure.