Week in Polygon: 13 Apr - 30 Apr 📅
We’re back with another weekly update, Spoiler Alert : Last few weeks were super exciting!
Announcing a 150M$ DeFi Fund to make DeFi more accessible and cost-effective and bring the next million users to DeFi.
The #DeFiforAll Fund was set up to bring the benefits of DeFi to a larger user base that was earlier priced out.
☀️Continuing Scalability's DeFi Summer with 5 Million+ USD in rewards from Polygon for Curve Polygon markets!
⤴️ @CurveFinance brings deep liquidity to stablecoins on Polygon & we're thrilled to bring 5mn$ in rewards for the @AaveAave pools on Curve.
🚀 Total Transactions: ~45 M (⬆️ 15M new txns)
🛄 Unique Wallets: 550,000 (⬆️ 201,000 new wallets)
🛅 Wallets with at least 100 MATIC: 54,936
📉 Total ERC20 Transactions: 71,582
📉 Total Token Transfers: 1,005,099,273.74M
🔦Introducing Project Spotlight: an initiative to highlight and get to know the DApps on Polygon a little better!
⭐️ First up, @PolymarketHQ, the leading information markets platform which lets users trade on topics like DeFi, vaccine rollouts, and politics.
📈 $MATIC is now listed on @Gemini with USD, GBP, EUR, CAD, AUD, HKD and SGD pairs!
Using your favourite Dapps just got a whole lot easier with two new ways to get MATIC for transactions on the Polygon commit chain!
The first Aave powered no loss prize pool is live on Polygon by @PoolTogether_
@mstable_ now scaling DeFi and building on @0xPolygon!
Get ready for the best trading experience on Polygon with @paraswap!
@BwareLabs validator node is live on Polygon!
@OpenSea beta on Polygon is rising on the charts with more than 8000 users, 3500 trades and 34000 orders, completely gas-free.
@AlphaWallet now supports Polygon!
@NFTBank_ai, the ultimate hub of NFT finance, portfolio management & analytics now supports Polygon!
Binance Staking Launches the 2nd “Spring Staking” and added Polygon (MATIC) to the list.
🙌🏼 Polygon fam, proposal to get Polygon added to @MetaMask! 🦊
📲 New Dapps 📱
📈 @DSCVR_Finance bringing its decentralized auction platform & token database to Polygon!
@DIGITALAX_ has teamed up with Polygon to launch the first real hybrid digital & physical fashion line.
@EDDASwap is adopting Polygon for their ecosystem for DeFi and NFT applications.
Polygon's cross-chain collaboration with @Bytom_Official.
@PuntCrypto is bringing its Blockchain-based Gaming DApp to Polygon!
@Hashlipsnftis coming to Polygon.
Now earn staking rewards on polygon with @stakedTokens!
The first dedicated flash loan service on Polygon with @EqualizerFlash!
Polygon Bridge is now live on @CryptoRubic 🙌
@kektoken plans to bridge tokens into the Polygon ecosystem and begin building on Polygon’s network.
👋 Say hello to Web3 Alerts on the Polygon ecosystem powered by @epnsproject 🔔
🤝@Ibetyouxyz (Polygon grant recipient) is bringing a unique DeFi gaming & personal betting protocol to Polygon!
🐳 @polywhalefi's decentralized yield farm is live on Polygon!
👸🤴Bringing sustainable fashion to the masses with @DIGITALAX_ through the #DigiFizzy Fashion Line!
✈️ @GeolancerApp by @exploreQuadrantnow building on Polygon!
👻@goodghosting is preparing to launch the first Intergalactic Saving Pool on Polygon!
☂️ Umbrella Network's Decentralized Oracles are now live on Polygon!
📢 @gelatonetwork is bringing its world-class automation services to Polygon!
Snippet of what was announced at the last community call!
There is a great proposal on the Governance Forum to adjust the Validator Power for $MATIC staked, to use curve-based staking power.
@Blockswap_team geared to launch the ETH2 StakeHouse game supporting Polygon Wallet!
@TokenySolutions is coming to Polygon!
Excited to announce OpenLogin from @TorusLabs!
🛒 @CryptoRefills brings E-commerce Payments to Polygon!
🔊Hackathon and AMA
Thrilled to have taken part in @gitcoin Grants Round 9 to support numerous open-source projects!
First official NFT collaboration 27.04 with Moonwolf and Drippies!
AMA with OKeX, Graphlinq, Unifarm, Xend Finance, Unifty, DokiDoki, BTU Protocol,
Unmarshal and TradeStars.
🐥Twitter 🐥
@AaveAave, @TheCryptoDog, @Quickswap and @Cryptoyieldinfo tweeted about the rising liquidity on the Polygon-Aave market!
Chainstack unleashed the first map of the ecosystem infrastructure layer.
Qiao Wang, the head of product at Messari talks about Polygon’s product and customer experience!
Hsaka tweeted about Polygon leading the DeFi game.
Hsaka on Twitter: "Sidechain debate is trivial. As of now, $MATIC is the most accessible liquid puntable token that represents the $ETH scaling narrative. With Curve and Aave already rolling out support, that mindshare is only going to increase. $1"
Anthony Sassano suggested binance CEO to use scaling solution like Optimism, Arbitrum & Polygon
Stay tuned for more exciting updates 🙂