Polygon buys crypto startups Coinme and Sequence for a total of $250M+, as it seeks to bolster its stablecoin and fintech infrastructure and compete with Stripe
Polygon buys crypto startups Coinme and Sequence for a total of $250M+, as it seeks to bolster its stablecoin and fintech infrastructure and compete with Stripe
Polygon Labs CEO Marc Boiron (left) and Polygon Foundation founder Sandeep Nailwal.COURTESY OF POLYGON LABS
Bhutan says it's migrating its national ID system for its nearly 800K residents from Polygon to Ethereum; the Ethereum Foundation says it will finish by Q1 2026
The Kingdom of Bhutan has tapped Ethereum to store the national identities of its roughly 800,000 citizens, leveraging the network's immutability and decentralization.
Wyoming launches a stablecoin, FRNT, marking the first time a US state has issued a blockchain-based, fiat-pegged token to be used by retail and enterprises
Announced at SALT's Wyoming Blockchain Symposium, FRNT … Bogdan Patru / Bitcoinist.com : SEC Chair Paul Atkins Unveils Plans for President's Digital Assets Group Tanzeel Akhtar / Cryptonews : Wyoming'...
Polygon cofounder Mihailo Bjelic steps down from the project's development studio, Polygon Labs, and from the foundation board, marking the third founder exit
- Mihailo Bjelic is stepping back from his active role developing Polygon and from the foundation's board, according to an announcement on Friday.
Polygon staffers, including co-founder and EIC Chris Plante, say the video games website has laid them off; sources say Vox Media sold Polygon to Valnet
One of the biggest gaming sites around was just blown up — The video game website Polygon has been sold to Valnet and much of its staff has been laid off, Kotaku as learned.
Stripe reintegrates crypto payments in the US, letting users pay merchants in USDC or USDP on Ethereum, Solana, and Polygon, after disabling the feature in 2018
Accept stablecoin payments that settle as fiat in your Stripe balance. Siamak Masnavi / CryptoGlobe : Stripe Now Allows Business to Easily Accept USDC Payments on Ethereum, Solana, and Polygon Coinped...
Sentient, an open-source AI development platform being built on Polygon, raised an $85M seed led by Founders Fund, Pantera Capital, and Framework Ventures
The project aims to address concerns about the proliferation of AI whereby the underlying code is concentrated in the hands of a few superpowers like Google or Meta.
Stripe will let customers accept crypto payments, starting with USDC on Solana, Ethereum, and Polygon, the first time it has taken crypto payments since 2018
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