Polygon

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.