Polygon (MATIC) Crypto News Today

Cointelegraph’s LONGITUDE Dubai edition brought together executives from Polygon and Near Protocol to explore the intersection of AI and blockchain.

Bettors on Polymarket and Kalshi are wagering that the US will report negative economic growth during the first quarter of 2025.

Miden, a zk-powered blockchain spun out of Polygon Labs, raised $25 million led by a16z to scale edge execution and support institutional blockchain adoption.

Polygon CEO Marc Boiron says DeFi protocols must abandon short-term yield strategies and embrace chain-owned liquidity for long-term stability.

Symbiotic’s new staking layer aims to create a collaborative economic incentive to secure networks and reshape collaboration dynamics across blockchains.

The surge was driven by an RWA NFT marketplace called Courtyard, which tokenizes physical collectible cards.

Polygon is working with telecom giant Reliance Jio to integrate blockchain into web services and solve real-world problems for over 450 million users.

Many analysts now say the four-year cycle driven by the Bitcoin halving is either dead or will have a blunted effect on markets.

GameStop is buying Bitcoin, miner revenues are stabilizing and a new real estate tokenization platform launches on Polygon.

DeFi needs to move from inflationary token emissions and to sustainable yield models to build lasting value and achieve mainstream adoption.

RealEstate.Exchange, also known as REX, selected Polygon because of its low transaction fees, fast settlement times and security features.

Sandeep Nailwal’s Blockchain For Impact surpasses $90 million and will further deploy $200 million in funding healthcare and climate change.

Tokenizing real estate and overhauling property investment markets has its challenges but is a killer use case for blockchain technology.

Stablecoins have ballooned into a $230-billion industry, which is equivalent to more than 1% of the US money supply.

The evolution of blockchain continues at pace. It’s time to examine progress, challenges and future potential in humanitarian and development sectors.