The Polygon network has made a lot of progress in the real world by getting big partnerships in global finance. At the same time, its new POL token is becoming the economic engine for the entire Polygon 2.0 ecosystem. The most important news is a historic deal with Flutterwave, Africa's largest payments company, and a new partnership with a Swiss-regulated bank for institutional staking.

This string of institutional and enterprise-level adoption comes just weeks after the network's "Rio" upgrade was finished successfully. This makes Polygon's shift from a theoretical scaling solution to a high-performance settlement layer for global finance even stronger.

Landmark Partnership with Flutterwave for Payments in Africa

The most important news lately is that Flutterwave has chosen Polygon as the default blockchain for a new cross-border payments service. On October 30, 2025, it was announced that this partnership would last for several years. It would use stablecoins on the Polygon network to make instant, low-cost payments for global companies like Uber and Audiomack in more than 30 African countries. This action directly addresses the high fees (often over 8%) and long settlement times of traditional remittance channels. It also makes Polygon the main infrastructure for a huge real-world use case.

DeFi liquidity and institutional staking

Polygon has made a lot of progress in getting big investors to buy its new POL token, in addition to payments. In early October, AMINA Bank, a Swiss crypto bank regulated by FINMA, started the world's first institutional staking service for POL. This regulated product gives institutional clients high-yield staking, which is a safe and legal way for big investors to help keep the network secure.

Polygon Labs worked with Manifold Trading on October 28, 2025, to make its on-chain economy even stronger. The high-frequency trading company will put its institutional-grade algorithms into Polygon's "AggLayer." This will stabilize liquidity, narrow spreads, and make the whole Polygon DeFi ecosystem more appealing to other big financial players.

"Rio" Upgrade Done: The 5,000 TPS Engine

The successful rollout of the "Rio" network upgrade on October 8, 2025, is what made all of this new adoption possible. This was a very important hard fork that made the network much faster and more reliable. The upgrade added:

Transactions are now confirmed in seconds, which means there is no longer a risk of "reorgs" (blockchain rollbacks).

Huge Throughput: The network can now handle about 5,000 transactions per second (TPS).

Stateless Validation: This new technology makes it easier and cheaper for more people to run validator nodes, which makes the network more decentralized and secure.

This upgrade gives you the high-performance engine you need to handle the traffic from business partners like Flutterwave.

The POL Token: Migration is Complete

These changes happen at the same time as the network's token migration from $MATIC to POL is finished. The new POL token is meant to be a "hyperproductive" asset that lets stakers secure and earn rewards from multiple chains in the Polygon 2.0 ecosystem (like the PoS chain, zkEVM, and others) all from one token. Major exchanges, like Coinbase, have finished moving over to POL by delisting $MATIC in mid-October. POL is now the only token that will be used on the network in the future.

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