Processed $261 million in NOWPayments payment volume during 2025.

USDC daily transfers reached all-time highs with 7.7M transactions across $593M in value.

Hosts a Gaming hub with a $100,000 community reward pool in collaboration with Immutable and miomi_game.

Processes 3.8 million daily transactions.

Mentioned as one of the supported chains for QuickswapDEX's QUICK token cross-chain functionality via Chainlink CCIP, alongside Base.

Experienced $349M in whale inflows.

Integrated with Bungee Exchange to connect TRON's 78+ billion liquidity to users and builders across multiple chains including Polygon.

USDC is now available for trading on CoinEx exchange on Polygon network.

Ranked as the 7th top weekly gainer with a price increase of 39.94%.

Created educational content and workshops with Particle Network to promote and educate developers about Universal Accounts during 2025.

Generated $1.4 million in revenue over the last 7 days, with week-over-week growth of 75% driven by micro payments and prediction market usage on Polygon PoS.

Is close to acquiring a Bitcoin ATM provider for approximately $100 million to $125 million.

Unveiled 'Open Money Stack', a vertically integrated stack of onchain solutions designed to power borderless stablecoin payments on 2026-01-08.

Integrated USDT0 support directly into Rumble's wallet on Polygon.

Frontier Stable Token (FRNT) became transferable on Stargate with Polygon as one of seven supported chains alongside Avalanche, Solana, Ethereum, Arbitrum, Optimism, and Base.

VP of community and governance Hudson Jameson left Polygon Labs.

Burned 3 million POL (0.03% of total supply) on January 5, 2026, marking an all-time high for single-day burns on Polygon PoS.

Generated more revenue than Base and Arbitrum over the 7-day period ending approximately January 6, 2026.

Ranked among the top three networks by RPC call volume on Ankr infrastructure during 2025, following BNB Chain (623B calls) and Ethereum.

Burns approximately 1 million POL per day in base fees over the last 3-4 days as of early January 2026.

Had 5.1 million active addresses in December 2025, up 6% month-over-month.

POL token is now supported in Atomic Wallet.

Will introduce unified USD balances for Polygon Apps.

Completed 4 major Gigagas upgrades in 2025.

Integrated with Wormhole's Native Token Transfers (NTT) standard for multichain token bridging, alongside other major tokens including RLUSD, USDS, wstETH, M, SOL, HYPE, and MON.

CoW Swap integrated with Polygon chain in 2025, enabling MEV-protected trading on the network.

$500M grants allocated for AggLayer dApps

Made 146 fragrances from FWB FEST25's Emotional Alchemy project available as free collectibles on the network.

Revolut reached $111M monthly volume on Polygon.

Averaged 423,000 new wallets per day on Polygon PoS over the last 3 months, reaching 1.30 million by the end of the period, with a spike to 2.81 million on December 18, 2025.

Nominated for "Best In Payments" award with winner announcement scheduled for 2025-12-30.

Listed on growthepie analytics platform, debuting at the top of their charts.

Collaborates with BeToken, the first Spanish company to tokenize 100% of its equity under European securities regulation, providing infrastructure for tokenization.

Included as one of the supported public blockchains in Magma Devs' RPC Smart Router, which launched on the Google Cloud marketplace on December 22, 2025.

Integrated with Chainlink standard as one of 10 chains receiving new integrations this week, with 12 total integrations across Chainlink services.

Launches Season 2 of Kaito rewards program on January 1st, 2026, with a total monthly budget of $30,000 USDC distributed across three components: $10,000 for top 20 general leaderboard creators, $10,000 for flash campaigns (3-7 day content tournaments targeting top 100 creators), and $10,000 for regional leaderboards starting with Korea (rewarding top 5 creators with $2,500 USDC each).

Supports deployment as one of two blockchain options (alongside BSC) for Ultiverse's tower defense game, enabling on-chain gameplay and digital asset accumulation.

Reduced campaign rewards significantly in an ongoing marketing or incentive program.

Integrated with Hinkal Protocol to enable private payments functionality on the network.

POL stakers and Polygon DeFi users are eligible for the Espresso Foundation airdrop.

Integrated with Paytrie for money transfers from Canada to India using USDC on Polygon.

Experienced a chain halt on December 17, 2025.

Made a strategic investment in Boys Club for storytelling and marketing support.

Achieved approximately $7 billion monthly stablecoin transaction volume in Q4 2025, representing a 350% increase from approximately $2 billion monthly in Q1 2025.

The Madhugiri hardfork completed last week, bringing 33% faster throughput, 1-second consensus, StateSync improvements, and Ethereum Fusaka EIP activation focused on institutional-grade payments and RWA infrastructure.

P2P economy reaches all-time high of $7.12 Billion in November, marking four consecutive months of growth.

Katana joins the Polygon Agglayer ecosystem as its newest addition, discussed in L2BEAT Talk Episode 2 with Marc Boiron and Ignatius Widjaja.

Polygon ranks as one of the top three leading chains by market cap for tokenized euros, alongside Ethereum and Arbitrum.

Polygon ranks #16 in blockchain ecosystem mindshare for 2025 with 0.78%, trailing significantly behind Solana (26.79%), Base (13.94%), and Ethereum (13.43%).

Polygon presents Solana Breakpoint Day 3 alongside 0x.

Tria's BestPath AVS infrastructure is used by 70+ protocols across Polygon, Arbitrum Orbit, Injective, and Sentient, with the platform processing $20M across 50,000+ users in 90 days.

Farcana's FAR token completes migration from Polygon to BNB Chain on December 13 at 1pm UTC, closing all Polygon liquidity pools and deprecating Polygon support within 60 days for the entire FAR Labs ecosystem.

Daily stablecoin transaction volume increased from 2.7M to 6M consistent transactions in the last six months.

Gondorfi launches DeFi lending layer for Polymarket positions on Polygon, offering 50% LTV borrowing, up to 30% APY on USDC lending, and 2x leverage with Beta now live.

SantaBrowser, a Web3 browser with 2M+ users, receives backing from Polygon Ventures along with Aptos, Arcanum Capital, and Bitfinex.

DeblockApp integrated Polygon for POL and stablecoin transfers, payments, and ramps.

Polymarket processed $4.33B in prediction market volume on Polygon in November, marking their biggest month ever. Polymarket API experiences technical issues with Polygon causing delays in trade execution and data updates.

Partnership with RocketX launches Zero Fee December, offering no platform fees for moving assets from 200+ chains to Polygon during December.

Polygon hired the Head of Crypto from Stripe, discussed in founder interview focused on blockchain payments strategy.

CEO Sandeep Nailwal targets 5,000 TPS in 6 months and up to 100,000 TPS within 12-24 months following the Madhugiri hardfork.

A hardfork increases network throughput by 33% to approximately 1400 TPS and simplifies future network upgrades.

Soccerverse obtains full FIFPRO player license for its blockchain game powered by Polygon with USDC as core payment rail.

Morpho powers the lending protocol that enables borrowing against Polymarket positions on the network.

X402 Hackathon goes live with Polygon partnering with Ethereum Foundation, Coinbase, Thirdweb, Edge & Node, Abstract Chain, and others for a month-long event focused on agents and internet-native payments.

Gondor goes live, allowing Polymarket positions to be used as collateral for DeFi loans on the network, expanding the prediction market ecosystem with new composability features.

Talus Labs launches tomorrow with backing from Polygon, 0G, and Kaito.

CEO Marc Boiron keynotes at Stable Summit announcing strategic direction to rebuild L2 design around concentrated DeFi liquidity for institutional-scale stablecoins.

WalletConnect Pay goes live at 94° Coffee in Lisbon supporting POL payments across multiple networks. Polymarket records $3.5 billion transaction volume on Polygon in 30-day period.

Chain reaches 1400 TPS following Madhugiri hardfork, announces two-stage scaling roadmap: 5000 TPS in 6 months, then 100k TPS in 12-24 months for global payments.

JPYC launches Japanese yen stablecoin (JPY Coin) on the network, highlighted as a fastest growing tokenized asset.

DefxOfficial platform, backed by Pantera Capital, provides 13% APY yield on $POL tokens.

Polygon hires John (Stripe's former crypto head) as Chief Product Officer. Daily transactions reach 6M, up from 2.7M.

SurfLayer launches on Polygon network.

MadhugiriPro hardfork activates on Polygon PoS mainnet at block 80084800 delivering 33% throughput increase, adjustable blocktimes, and Ethereum-grade security via Fusaka support. Stripe launches live stablecoin payment settlements in USD across the network.

Polygon partners with Ethereum Foundation, Coinbase, and 6 other organizations in the live x402 Hackathon focused on agent-powered applications.

Polygon leads 7-day net flows with $69.5M in inflows.

Partnership with Stripe announced for stablecoin subscriptions. Madhugiri hardfork deploys Dec 9 at approximately 10am UTC with 33% throughput increase, faster node synchronization, and proactive EVM security enhancements.

Polygon partners with 0xProject to sponsor a 3-day streaming event at Solana Breakpoint conference.

Flipside AI launches new earn quest enabling MatixX deposits into FolksFinance pools to boost Polygon liquidity.

XLayer and Katana adopt Polygon CDK OP-Geth, a variant of OP Stack with zk proofs, for enhanced interoperability on Agglayer.

Over $1.5B in stablecoins processed via Circle hot wallets during November. Immutable launches new Polygon Hub product last week, enabling simultaneous onboarding of 5 games versus previous one-at-a-time process.

AOTM Gallery partners to activate the Art Basel Miami Beach display this week.

Three Polygon Etcetera NFTs (#3, #8, #18) by Dmitri Cherniak sell on secondary market for 5 ETH each during Art Basel Zero 10 presentation, totaling 15 ETH in sales.

OpenSea sponsors the Art Basel display featuring Polygon Etcetera alongside Ringers and Floor Ringer works by Dmitri Cherniak.

Japanese Yen stablecoin JPYC experiences fastest supply growth on the network.

Polygon Etcetera NFT collection by artist Dmitri Cherniak sells out at Art Basel Miami Beach, with exhibition running through December 7.

PIP-69 makes staked POL fungible on Ethereum for the first time across ~100 validators, with a new proposal to further consolidate all validator tokens into a single EIP-7575 vault token.

CCTP integration launches on Rango with Polygon support, enabling native burn-and-mint USDC transfers across chains with reduced slippage and faster settlement times.

Network processes over 6 million individual transactions below $1,000 and establishes partnerships with Mastercard and Revolut.

BDACS Korea launches KRW1 stablecoin on the network, a Korean won-backed stablecoin for payments across Korea.

Ethena has completely withdrawn all BUIDL holdings from Polygon network, while maintaining positions on Avalanche ($276M), Aptos ($262M), and Ethereum ($1.22M).

Polygon and Kaito announce November Yapper Leaderboard results with prize pool distribution to 50 top creators for their content contributions.

Active addresses on Polygon grow rapidly, boosted by Polymarket's strong performance.

Polygon drops out of top 5 RWA chains by TVL and shifts lower in top 10 rankings as of recent changes.

JPYC stablecoin redemption amounts surpass operating reserve amounts on Polygon network.

AgentHustleAI announces major update at end of year adding Polygon support for conditionals, liquidity pools, and crosschain swaps across multiple blockchain ecosystems.