Calastone Brings Global Fund Distribution Onchain with Polygon

Calastone, the global funds network that processes more than £250 billion in transactions each month, is launching its tokenized fund distribution solution on Polygon, the go-to stack powering global money movement, supporting sending billions in value, instantly. 

Flutterwave Selects Polygon as Its Default Blockchain for Cross-Border Payments

A multi-year collaboration with Flutterwave brings stablecoin-powered payments to Africa, enabling instant, affordable cross-border transfers for enterprises and individuals.

Payments 101: Why Polygon is built for money, crypto payments, and onchain finance

Discover how Polygon is transforming payments with near-instant finality, high throughput, low fees, and a roadmap to 100k TPS, powering stablecoin transfers and onchain money

Polygon Launches Major Payments Upgrade with Rio: Faster, Lighter, and Easier to Build

Rio makes Polygon a lighter, more reliable, and significantly faster blockchain. With changes to underlying block production and validation, now it’s easier and lower-cost than ever to participate in the network. Rio enables 5k TPS on the network and makes nodes lightweight, slashing the cost of compute. By removing the risk of reorgs, Rio provides a step function improvement in the reliability of finality. 

Cypher Capital and Polygon Labs Forge Institutional Bridge for POL Access

Polygon Labs partners with Dubai-based Cypher Capital to expand institutional access to POL, channel capital, boost liquidity, and enable yield strategies.

Rio Upgrade Live on Testnet: Polygon Continues to go GigaGas

Polygon Hits ~5 Second Fast Finality in Significant Heimdall v2 Upgrade

A new upgrade for Polygon brings transaction finality to ~5 seconds, down from 1-2 minutes, alongside other payments-focused improvements for better user and developer experience. 

First Milestone to Gigagas, Live: Polygon PoS Goes Faster, Supports 1000 TPS with Bhilai Hardfork

The Bhilai Hardfork goes live today, amplifying throughput, smoothing out gas fees, and extending support for account abstraction via EIP-7702. It’s the first milestone on the gigagas roadmap (100k TPS), allowing money to move even faster.

Polygon’s Gigagas Roadmap to 100k TPS: Move Your Money Faster Across the Globe

Polygon is aiming to go gigagas (100k TPS), massively scaling to bring speed to onchain global financial transactions

CDK Goes Multistack: Aggregate Everything, Starting with OP Stack

Introducing the CDK OP Stack configuration, natively connected to Agglayer and using Ethereum’s top execution client (Geth)

POL Value Accrual Post #2: Introducing the Agglayer Breakout Program

The Agglayer Breakout Program will launch high-impact projects that drive significant activity to Agglayer and Polygon PoS

POL Value Accrual #1: Agglayer + Polygon

POL staking powers Agglayer and Polygon PoS—stakers earn from doing the work

Major Development Upgrade for a Multistack Future: Pessimistic Proofs Live on Agglayer Mainnet

Latest Agglayer upgrade is a milestone that lays the groundwork for Agglayer to go multistack by ensuring safety for cross-chain interop

Polygon Community Grants Program Announces Season 2 with 35M POL and AI Leading the Pack

From AI swarms to memecoin royales, leaders in Blockchain x AI join forces with the Community Treasury to dramatically expand founder support

Open Source Polygon Plonky3 Is Once Again the Fastest ZK Proving System

With the latest publicly available benchmarking, Polygon Plonky3 is the fastest proving system, and powers important general purpose zkVMs Succinct Labs’ SP1 and Valida

MATIC to POL Migration Is Now Live. Everything You Need to Know.

After a year of community-led discussions and consensus, MATIC has been upgraded to POL as the network token for Polygon

Save the Date: MATIC → POL Migration Coming September 4th. Everything You Need to Know

The POL upgrade is coming September 4th

1 Billion Unlocked Over Decade in Community Grants Program for Polygon Builders

Season 01 of the Community Grants Program, overseen by the neutral Community Treasury Board, will distribute 35M MATIC to projects building on Polygon

L3s v. Aggregated L2s: An Analysis for Developers

L3s have drawbacks aggregated L2s don't have.

The Beginner’s Guide to Aggregated Blockchains

As an approach to scaling blockchains, the “aggregated” category is brand new.

WTF is Polygon?

This post introduces a new mental model: Polygon is the first aggregated blockchain network

Polygon PoS is Cooking: The Napoli Upgrade Means Better UX; the Mumbai Testnet Takes a Bow

Unpacking the Napoli upgrade, and a farewell to the beloved Mumbai testnet

Aggregated Blockchains: A New Thesis

AggLayer's first components are live