Polygon

Polygon opened crypto donations to Nepal's official Prime Minister Disaster Relief Fund, partnering with CrossRiverBank to route funds. It's part of Nepal's first-ever blockchain-based crypto fundraising campaign for flood relief; donations are fully directed to relief, verified onchain, and any supported token on any chain is accepted via Polygon OMS.

Polygon's account highlighted work by @TrailsHQ and @peterk that lets users send any asset on any chain to a single address, removing the need to match chains or hold the destination native token. The capability is accessible via the linked app.

The retweet points to the @0xAvious developer's tooling, positioning cross-chain transfers as a simplified single-destination action.

Prediction-market platform Polymarket has rolled out Polymarket Perps, a perpetuals-style product built on Polygon. The new offering brings leveraged price exposure to the platform, expanding beyond Polymarket's standard binary event markets.

• Perps are settled on Polygon's infrastructure, continuing the chain's role as a settlement rail for onchain financial products.
• The launch was announced via Polygon's official account, which spotlighted the integration. Specific trading pairs and fee details haven't been detailed yet.

Revolut launched EURR, its euro-backed stablecoin, on Polygon, confirming Polygon as the chain hosting the fintech's fiat-backed digital euro. The move adds another regulated stablecoin issuer to the network, joining Polygon's broader push as a settlement rail for fiat-backed currencies and onchain payments.

• The announcement follows Polygon's focus on stablecoin conversion rails through its Open Money Stack.
• In the same update, Polygon noted it joined the Bank of England's digital pound initiative, extending its presence in institutional fiat-currency experiments.

Polygon now offers simplified RPC access through a single endpoint on Lava Network (lavanetxyz). The integration streamlines how developers and users connect to Polygon's chain infrastructure by consolidating RPC calls into one endpoint, reducing configuration overhead.

• Single endpoint eliminates the need to manage multiple RPC URLs.
• Lava Network acts as the gateway, providing reliability and load balancing.
• Move aligns with Polygon's broader push to improve developer experience and infrastructure accessibility.

Hinkal Protocol has launched Hinkal Swaps, enabling private token swaps both same-chain and cross-chain. The feature masks the public sender and visible balances, with no trace linking sender to the swap.

Hinkal is a privacy solution built on Polygon, which amplified the launch. The release extends onchain privacy tooling to cover both intra-network and cross-chain asset exchanges.

In PPGC 45, Polygon's community governance call reported that the Austin and Kyoto hardforks are now live, alongside updates on PIP-85 and PIP-91. PIP-85 (the validator signature scheme upgrade) and PIP-91 (variable ... brief coverage) were on the agenda as Polygon continues rolling out network-wide upgrades.

• The hardfork activations and governance proposal status were the headline items from the call.
• These are administrative/on-chain upgrades to the Polygon PoS network.

Polygon's $POL token is among four assets newly available on OKX Nordics' X-Perps perpetual futures, alongside $DASH, $ASTER, and $YB. The listing adds a new venue for trading POL with leverage in the Nordics market.

• X-Perps offers perpetuals-style exposure to the token.
• OKX Nordics announced the four additions at the start of the week on X.

Polygon spotlighted Frax Finance, which settles frxUSD-based foreign-exchange pools on Polygon alongside Curve Finance and **DFB_, turning multi-bank currency conversion into near-instant onchain settlement. A profile of Thomas Clement of Frax details how digital-dollar FX markets run on the Polygon chain.

USDC on Polygon is now live for everyday merchant payments through AEON across the Philippines, Africa, Brazil, Mexico, and Argentina. Users can spend USDC at physical stores using familiar regional methods including QR codes.

AEON announced the expansion is "officially LIVE," enabling local spending with Polygon as the underlying chain.