Polygon [MATIC] reached yet another new milestone on the NFT market place OpenSea. Data from Dune Analytics showed that the number of Polygon OpenSea users surpassed 1.6 million. Along with that, the weekly volume for Polygon marketplaces observed immense growth over the last few months as well.

Polygon recently announced a partnership with Aleathea AI, the developers of the rapid AI-powered text-to-character platform, MycharacterAI, to bring the power of generative AI to web3. The partnership, which has been hailed by many as a progressive step ahead of the trending ChatGPT, will see Polygon become the foundational infrastructure for minting, trading, and collecting artificially intelligent digital twins generated on MycharacterAI.

An early MATIC whale makes an unexpected move by selling millions worth of tokens amid the massive rise of the asset on the market. In exchange for Polygon's token, the whale grabs some DAI. The first MATIC transaction on the whale's wallet occurred when the token was trading at $0.02.

New data from crypto analytics platform Santiment reveals that whale transactions are spiking for Litecoin (LTC), Polygon (MATIC) and two Ethereum (ETH)-based altcoins.

Polygon (MATIC) has continued its strong ascent after over a week-long of volatility. The token is now trading at $1.14 being up 45.3% in the monthly timeframe.

Spatial Labs, a web3 infrastructure firm focused on improving metaverse and commerce, raised $10 million in a seed funding round.

Arkham Intelligence announced it is adding support for Polygon, giving users the ability to track, monitor and identify wallets on its chain.

Fractal, the platform for game-related non-fungible tokens (NFTs) developed by Twitch co-founder Justin Kan, is expanding into the Polygon network to boost accessibility.

Solana (SOL) has been the most performing digital asset in the top 15 this year by market capitalization and no one saw it coming following a poor run and a disastrous end of 2022.

Polygon has successfully launched the “Polygon Delhi Fork” as part of its plans to improve transaction speed while keeping gas prices low. 

Popular NFT marketplace and protocol Rarible launched its NFT marketplace builder for Polygon-based NFT collections on January 18. Any Polygon-based NFT collection will be able to use the new self-serve tool to build their own customized marketplaces for free to connect with their communities.

Alethea AI and Polygon Labs are jumping on the AI hype with the launch of an AI-powered NFT project that allows users to create NFT avatars through text-based prompts similar to OpenAi’s Dall-E image generator.

Polygon partnered with BitGo to provide staking capabilities for MATIC holders. While the governance facilitator addressed the recent controversy.

Last year was full of fruitful partnerships, mainstream adoption, and Web2 NFT advancement for the Polygon ecosystem. Some of the biggest brands took a dive into the world of digital collections, opening the door for millions of new users.

Primex team has opened access to Beta 0.3.0 to the public. This allows users and the Primex community to launch the application and test the new release without restrictions.

Polygon co-founder Sandeep Nailwal and Polygon Ventures have invested $500,000 in Davos - a new Decentralised Finance (DeFi) protocol - in its pre-seed funding round.

On January 17, 2023, at 10:45 UTC, Polygon (MATIC), a layer-2 scaling protocol on Ethereum, finally launched its hardfork update and is currently operational on its network. This new version, V0.3.1, was created primarily to reduce gas spikes and address chain reorganization issues that have plagued the network. The successful upgrade was announced on Twitter by the Polygon official website.

Web3 gaming platform Intella X raised $12 million ahead of an upcoming launch on Polygon.

The much-awaited hard fork aimed at boosting Polygon’s performance went live today at block 38,189,056, brewing a wave of optimism among the MATIC community.

Polygon, an Ethereum scaling project, successfully completed a hard fork designed to reduce instances of spiking gas fees and disruptive chain reorganizations known as "reorgs."