Polygon

Prediction markets have found their home 📊

As prediction markets scale, reliability and cost efficiency become non-negotiable.

High-frequency markets cannot function on congested or expensive rails.

$POL has become the primary settlement layer for prediction markets, with #Polymarket settlement and core onchain activity running on Polygon.

Fast finality, low fees, and predictable execution are what make real-time market resolution possible at scale, powered by $POL .

The takeaway is simple.
When information markets grow up, they settle where infrastructure works.

PIP-69 LIVE

With PIP-69, validator share tokens now show up as a 1:1 representation as dPOL, which improves wallet visibility and will expand the utility of staked POL.

This enables full ERC-20 functionality to simplify the creation of $POL liquid staking tokens (LSTs) and DeFi composability.

If you’re already staking POL, you’ll see these tokens in your wallet. These may appear as dPOL, dPOL1 or dPOLa4 depending on your wallet. (This is not an airdrop)

Read more on the Polygon forum

https://forum.polygon.technology/t/pip-69-full-erc-20-functionality-for-validator-share-tokens/21162

The Open Money Stack is Polygon’s north star

Moving money onchain is not a single product or upgrade.

It’s an ecosystem problem that requires every layer to work together.

Polygon’s Open Money Stack brings together execution, wallets, stablecoins, liquidity, compliance, and orchestration into one interoperable system.

The goal is simple: make money move instantly, reliably, and invisibly across borders and applications.

This matters because global payments don’t fail on innovation.

They fail on fragmentation, friction, and unpredictability.

Polygon is building the stack so money fades into the background and people can focus on using it.

That’s how onchain finance reaches the real world.

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Polygon usage is going through the roof.

During a period of ATH usage, the network generated 13,600,000+ $POL in fees (up 7.2X) and burned 12,500,000+ POL (up 10X).

Following this period of ATH usage and heightened gas prices, the Dandeli hardfork has successfully stabilized gas costs on Polygon. At this juncture of Polygon’s growth we want to ensure the network remains as economical as possible to invite more and more users into the ecosystem.

What’s new: More capacity per block. More predictable fees when demand gets heavy.
• ~30% increase in network peak capacity
• gas target change to 65% from 50%

Throughput can now scale higher when demand is present, currently reaching 20mgas/s.

In the future, we will be working on making both gas limit and gas target dynamic so they can adjust to maintain gas fees at healthy levels making it suitable for the users while also making sure that the chain earns sufficient fees.

The Gigagas roadmap is in full swing for Polygon and primed to bring all money onchain.

We’ll be monitoring base gas closely over the coming days and fine-tuning parameters as needed. Upgrade at Block 81424000.

2026 is the year $POL powers global money movement

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Polygon is building The Open Money Stack 🧱

Moving money onchain is not just about speed.
It is about making money work seamlessly, everywhere.

$POL vision is to move all money onchain by building an open, integrated money stack.

Blockchain rails, wallet infrastructure, crosschain interoperability, and stablecoin orchestration are designed to work together as one system.

This is a full-stack approach to how money moves and settles globally.

Payments fade into the background when infrastructure is reliable and interoperable.

Just use #Polygon

We closed out S1 with the December $POL × $KAITO Yapper Leaderboard.

Kudos to all the creators who showed up, added value, and moved the conversation forward this season on X.

S2 for the Leaderboard starts NOW with refreshed rules.

New high: Over 1.4 Billion transactions processed on $POL in 2025.

Adoption at scale, powering onchain payments and apps globally.

#Polygon

Telcoin Digital Asset Bank is now the first Digital Asset Depository Institution in the U.S., following the launch of its eUSD stablecoin on Polygon.

This marks the first time a dollar-backed stablecoin has been issued directly by a bank on a public blockchain.

Powered by $POL, the default rails for global onchain payments.

By making blockchain payments invisible to the end user, integrated with everyday traditional payment experiences, and delivering superior speed and cost efficiency, we're seeing the future of finance unfold.

2025 was a banner year for payments enabled by $POL , with November surpassing over $1.27B in monthly volume from payments apps.

“User adoption — that’s the only metric that matters. Tech milestones are great for the crypto audience, but our priority is always users.”


$POL founder @Sandeep | CEO, Polygon Foundation on why we focus on payments, abstracting away complexities to make blockchain invisible, and why we care about users more than anything.


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When's the last time you transferred money to a friend in another country, and how much was the fee?

Next Tuesday in Buenos Aires we're meeting to talk about how to make it better

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The world's largest funds network. Now building on $POL rails.

Global money is moving onchain.

The world’s largest funds network, processing £250B+ monthly, chooses $POL to launch tokenized fund share classes to 4,500 financial institutions in 58 markets.

Calastone is bringing institutional finance onchain, on #Polygon rails.

This means faster settlement, lower costs, and programmable efficiency, all backed by Polygon’s stable scalability, sub-cent transaction fees, and near-instant finality.

Come with all your questions!

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