Layer one network Polygon continues to expand and solidified its position in the crypto space. Recently, they announced a new partnership with Filecoin, a network that allows users to store and transfer data via a native marketplace. The cooperation launched the Filecoin-Polygon Bridge, to increase their interoperability. Built by the Textile team, the bridge enables…
Polygon (MATIC) has seen an explosion on the daily chart with a 40.4% rally trading at $0,74. In the weekly and monthly chart, MATIC’s numbers are equally impressive with a 118% and 114% bull-run. Most of the profits seem to have been recording over the past three months. MATIC with heavy gains in the daily…
What’s going on at Polygon? There seems to be a disturbance in the force over there. Is the Ethereum Layer 2 project alright? Are they doing everything above board or is there something sinister going on? Are they even decentralized if they can hard-fork just like that? Or did they follow the proper procedures and…
After its bullish shindig seen last week, Polygon (MATIC) price is now going the opposite direction as it continues to plunge to $0.60. MATIC is seen to have plummeted by more than 20% in comparison to its peak high of $0.97 as seen in the past couple of days. The coin’s price has dropped below…
Via their Twitter handle, protocol and cross-chain bridge Polygon announced a new area of interest, ZK-based scaling solutions. In order to contribute and improve this approach to aggregate transactions into a blockchain, the project also announced a merger with Hermez Network and a $1 billion investment. Based on zero-knowledge proof, the layer 2 scaling solution…
Ethereum’s scalability solution Polygon will implement this network update in its fee model via EIP-1559. According to an official post, this upgrade will introduce a burning mechanism for MATIC and will improve its fee visibility. Related Reading | Polygon Expands Its Footprint As Evolving NFT And Gaming Ecosystems Seek Ethereum Alternatives Ethereum introduced EIP-1559 with…
The City of Lugano in Switzerland, the most important Italian-speaking city outside of Italy, is not playing around. The goal of their “Plan B” is to “make Lugano the blockchain hub for the entire Europe,” according to Tether’s Paolo Ardoino. And it will probably succeed. The city wants to attract investment and talent, attract wealth…
Many layer 2 solutions are competing on being the most active in developments. Amid these scaling solutions in Optimism, and given its latest announcement, it will soon enable developers to launch DApps with just a single click of a button. Optimism provides support for all the apps on the Ethereum ecosystem. It ensures that transaction…
In the face of an increase in the number of attacks on DeFi platforms, Polygon has decided to take new measures. The Ethereum scaling platform recently announced a $2 million bug bounty. In that way, Polygon expects to “root out and eliminate potential security flaws”, according to a press release. Only a few months ago,…
The Polygon team promised an explanation and here it is. A few weeks ago, the Ethereum Layer 2 network hard-forked their blockchain, seemingly without explanation. As usual, NewsBTC got to the bottom of the case and presented all of the available information. The only piece missing was a promised official report from Polygon’s experts. Is…