Intesa Sanpaolo headquarters in Turin (Riccardo Tuninato/Unsplash)
Italy's Top Banks Participate in 25M Euro Digital Bond Issuance on Polygon in ECB Trial
Global lenders and asset managers are increasingly exploring blockchain tech to issue and transfer traditional financial instruments, also known as tokenization of real-world...
Intesa Sanpaolo headquarters in Turin (Riccardo Tuninato/Unsplash)

Polygon co-founders Sandeep Nailwal (left) and Mihailo Bjelic (Polygon Labs)
Polygon Sets September Date for Migration to POL Token from MATIC
The migration comes as a part of Polygon’s planned revamp laid out last year in its “Polygon 2.0” roadmap. The change was initially proposed in July 2023 to its community, and...
Polygon co-founders Sandeep Nailwal (left) and Mihailo Bjelic (Polygon Labs)

Founder of TON Application Chain Pavel Altukhov (TAC)
TON Blockchain Ecosystem to Get New Layer-2 Network Based on Polygon Tech
The new protocol, called the TON Applications Chain (TAC), will make use of Polygon’s Chain Development Kit (CDK), as well as their AggLayer.
Founder of TON Application Chain Pavel Altukhov (TAC)

Polygon co-founder Sandeep Nailwal (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)
Polygon Creates New Grants Program, 1B POL Unlocked Over 10 Years
The program will tap into funds made available by Polygon’s Community Treasury, and the team shared that roughly 100 million POL tokens will be given out each year.
Polygon co-founder Sandeep Nailwal (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

Polygon Labs CEO, Marc Boiron. (Polygon Labs)
Polygon Acquires Zero-Knowledge Cryptography Firm Toposware
Sources close to the deal told CoinDesk that the company was valued at $30-50 million. The purchase means that Polygon Labs has invested over $1 billion on zero-knowledge rese...
Polygon Labs CEO, Marc Boiron. (Polygon Labs)

Avail co-founders Anurag Arjun and Prabal Banarjee (Avail)
Avail Data Availability Integrated by Arbitrum, Optimism, Polygon, StarkWare, ZkSync
The chains' users will be able to opt in or out to use Avail for data availability, to stash the reams of data produced for all their transactions taking place.
Avail co-founders Anurag Arjun and Prabal Banarjee (Avail)

Union Labs team (Union Labs)
Union Labs Plans Polygon-to-Cosmos Bridge with New AggLayer Integration
The new technology from Union Labs comes after the blockchain interoperability project raised $4 million in November.
Union Labs team (Union Labs)

Hadron Founders Club hosts its first pop-up event for blockchain startup founders in Dubai (Hadron FC)
P2 Ventures Commits $50M Via Hadron FC to Startup Founders in Polygon Ecosystem
P2 was spun out out of Polygon Labs last year and now is allocating funds and mentorship to support project founders, including those focused on the Polygon blockchain ecosyst...
Hadron Founders Club hosts its first pop-up event for blockchain startup founders in Dubai (Hadron FC)

OKX Chief Marketing Officer Haider Rafique (OKX)
Crypto Exchange OKX's Polygon-Powered Layer 2, 'X Layer,' Hits Public Mainnet
OKX's comes as other major cryptocurrency exchanges, like Coinbase and Kraken, have also pursued their own layer 2 networks over the last year.
OKX Chief Marketing Officer Haider Rafique (OKX)

Avail co-founders Anurag Arjun and Prabal Banarjee (Avail)
Avail, Blockchain Data Availability Project, Sketches Out Eligibility for Token Airdrop
A screenshot of a document describing the eligibility criteria for the airdrop was posted on the social-media platform X by the user @Bitcoineo, and Avail’s public-relations t...
Avail co-founders Anurag Arjun and Prabal Banarjee (Avail)