BitPay, the world’s largest provider of Bitcoin and cryptocurrency payment services, will begin to support Polygon’s MATIC token this week. Users can make payments with Polygon’s native token via most popular Polygon wallets. Collectibles marketplace Panini America is among the first merchants to accept MATIC payments. Users of the BitPay app can also buy, store, … Read more
Binance USD (BUSD) is now available for deposits and withdrawals on the Polygon network, giving our users access to one of the fastest-growing stablecoins. BUSD, first issued on Ethereum and BNB chains, is now extended to Polygon to provide users with a fast and secure way to transfer the USD-backed stablecoin across different blockchains. The … Read more
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 … Read more
Today, we’re thrilled to announce that Robinhood, the popular stock and crypto investing app in the US, has launched support for deposits and withdrawals of MATIC on the Polygon Proof-of-Stake (PoS) chain. The move is set to bring all of the benefits of Ethereum’s Layer-2 (L2) solutions to Robinhood users for the first time, including … Read more
We at Polygon are thankful every day for our community of developers, validators, and users that help our ecosystem grow. Today we’re sharing a few small updates to Polygon’s wallet suite that were inspired by feedback and suggestions from our community. A few weeks ago we launched the MATIC burn console, and the good news … Read more
The much-anticipated EIP-1559 upgrade is finally here and Polygon’s native token MATIC is now being burned. We have created an interactive dashboard where users can monitor and take part in the process. Each time a user pays for a transaction, the base fee gets locked on the burn contract on Polygon and the priority fee … Read more
