CoinGecko's x402 pay-per-use data endpoints now accept USDC payments on Polygon, per Polygon's official account. AI agents can pay per request for market data — token prices, DEX liquidity, and trending activity — without moving funds off Polygon, and CoinGecko has cut x402 pricing 50% to $0.005 per call, billed as "half the cost, twice the data" for agent budgets.
UQUID, the digital commerce infrastructure platform, is using Polygon's Open Money Stack (OMS) to power one-click checkout for purchases with digital assets. OMS handles the swaps, gas, routing, and network selection in the background so shoppers — and now AI agents — can simply pick an item and pay, with OMS converting any token at checkout.
The DIFC Courts published a whitepaper proposing a way for court decisions to be carried out on tokenized assets, and Polygon Labs contributed as a peer reviewer of The Dispute Resolution Oracle alongside Deca4HQ, per Polygon's official account.
RIFT, the one-click bridge and swap aggregator that routes across 20+ venues, is now live on Polygon, with Polygon's official account welcoming the integration. RIFT says users can bridge or swap on Polygon in one click at the best rate, without added fees.
Pump.fun, the Solana-based token launchpad and trading app, has added Polygon support, letting users trade Polygon-network tokens directly from their USDC balance with no bridging. The integration was announced by the platform and echoed by Polygon's official account and by BSCNews.
Solana is now live on Polygon's Open Money Stack (OMS), with both Polygon's and Solana's official accounts confirming the integration. Businesses on Solana can take a customer from a bank payin to a stablecoin balance to a payout through one API, with money moving on Solana round-the-clock and still landing in a bank account, on a card, or as cash.
Polygon amplified The Block's coverage framing the launch as its payments business shifting beyond its own blockchain: OMS now runs on Solana and TRON on top of the U.S.-regulated payments rails originally built around Polygon's network.
Miden's partner mainnet is now live, per Polygon's official account, with AggLayer connectivity providing the rollup access to liquidity across the blockchain ecosystem. The launch makes Miden the first non-EVM chain connected to global liquidity through the AggLayer, seven days after the final countdown was announced.
Polygon has enabled agent spend controls within the Open Money Stack (OMS), letting teams set precise guardrails for AI agents operating in the wallet. Admins can approve specific tasks and set budgets and expirations for an agent, with the wallet enforcing those terms onchain, per Polygon's official account.
Keeper — the non-custodial wallet formerly known as Tonkeeper — has brought Polygon live in its app, per Polygon's official account. Users can swap between Polygon and ten other networks without leaving the app, buy POL with a card into a wallet they own, and open Polygon ecosystem apps in the in-wallet browser.
Polygon Labs has completed its acquisition of Coinme, making Polygon a U.S.-regulated payments business and bringing regulated U.S. money movement into the Open Money Stack (OMS). Polygon Foundation CEO Sandeep Nailwal announced the milestone, framing Polygon PoS as now operating under U.S. money-transmission rules; Polygon's official account amplified the news with a video post: "Regulated money movement in the United States. Now powered through Polygon Open Money Stack."
Miden's partner mainnet went live, connecting the STARK-based zk-rollup to liquidity across AggLayer-connected chains.
Europe's largest banking network began a phased rollout of crypto trading through the Sparkasse app, operated by DekaBank with Boerse Stuttgart; five assets including Polygon's POL are supported.
Polygon Labs completed its acquisition of Coinme, becoming a U.S.-regulated payments business with 37 state money transmitter licenses, 11 exemptions and FinCEN MSB registration, and folding regulated U.S. money movement into the Polygon Open Money Stack.
After community consensus, Polygon upgraded its native token from MATIC to POL as part of the Polygon 2.0 roadmap, making POL the network's gas and staking token.
Polygon Labs promoted chief legal officer Marc Boiron to the newly created CEO role, while President Ryan Wyatt stepped down to an advisory position.
Polygon announced Polygon 2.0, a set of proposed upgrades reimagining the protocol's architecture, tokenomics, and governance toward an aggregated 'value layer of the Internet.'
Polygon raised $450 million by selling MATIC tokens in a round led by Sequoia Capital India, with participation from Tiger Global and SoftBank Vision Fund.
Polygon disclosed a security vulnerability that resulted in the theft of 801,601 MATIC tokens.
Polygon acquired the Mir blockchain network for 250 million MATIC tokens, worth around $400 million at the time of the deal.
Polygon acquired the Hermez Network, a zero-knowledge rollup team, in an August 2021 deal valued at $250 million.
The project renamed itself Polygon Technology, shifting from a single scaling solution to a broader ecosystem of Ethereum scaling solutions.
Polygon's ledger began on June 1, 2020, marking the launch of the Matic proof-of-stake mainnet on Ethereum.
Matic Network ran an initial exchange offering on Binance Launchpad, selling 1.9 billion MATIC tokens (19% of supply) and raising about $5 million.
Matic Network, the predecessor to Polygon, was founded by Jaynti Kanani, Sandeep Nailwal, Anurag Arjun, and Mihailo Bjelic.
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