Polygon forms a strategic partnership with neo-banking app Hi to embark on its journey to becoming the flagbearer of gasless fees for NFTs.Users have rather more options now when customizing their non-fungible tokens. Hi, a neo-banking app allows customers to use Mastercard to spend either fiat or digital currency. Polygon Studios and hi have announced their collaboration to bring innovative news, first for hi & Mastercard, where users can mint their non-fungible tokens using an image they like.

The prime broker platform of Nasdaq-listed cryptocurrency trading platform Coinbase, Coinbase Prime, has started offering Polygon ($MATIC) staking services to its users, allowing them to earn rewards while helping secure the network.

On December 8, the highly anticipated Odyssey program, which combines customer loyalty rewards with NFT collecting and other gamified elements, launched to a small group of waitlist members including customers and employees in the US.

SEED.PHOTO, an exclusive NFT marketplace for photographers based on Binance Smartchain, adds Ethereum and Polygon Blockchains, following the numerous requests from users.

Magic Eden extended support for the Polygon network on Nov. 22 in an effort to add multi-chain functionality and future possibilities for blockchain gaming. Polygon is an Ethereum layer-2 protocol that undergirds many popular blockchain-based games such as The Sandbox.

NFTs depict Trump in various characters, including a superhero, a duck hunter, a successful stock market trader, and a golfer.

Polygon’s native token MATIC kicked off this week with a bullish pivot on Monday (12 December) and has been gradually recovering since then. A recent WhaleStats analysis revealed incoming whale demand that may trigger more upside for MATIC.

It happens to be the Bangalore International Airport, which in the very recent past, was successfully launching the first phase of the BLR Metaport. For the uninitiated, this happens to be the first time the world will be exposed to a metaverse-related experience, in the case of an airport. This great occurrence is carried out with the due assistance of AWS, Intel, and, last but not the least, Polygon. 

Amid a crypto winter exacerbated by the FTX fallout, first-time and returning buyers have reached all-time highs in Polygon’s non-fungible token market. Yet, sales volumes are near all-time lows.

Bermuda-based Jewel Bank said Monday it is issuing a fully backed stablecoin called Jewel USD (JUSD) that can be accessed through the Polygon network.

Polygon has announced its partnership with Earn Alliance, a web3 gaming community & infrastructure platform, to accelerate the adoption of blockchain gaming. Another objective of the partnership is to onboard over a hundred million players in the community. Blockchain gaming is the future, and the partnership looks to ensure that its adoption brings that future closer.

One of the key elements of Polygon’s success is its bridging technology, allowing users to virtually move assets (such as NFTs and tokens) from the Ethereum blockchain to the Polygon blockchain and vice versa.

Starbucks Odyssey, the coffee chain’s <a href="https://decrypt.co/109502/starbucks-ethereum-scaling-network-polygon-nft-rewards" target="_blank">new Web3 rewards platform</a> built on <a href="https://decrypt.co/resources/what-is-ethereum-quickly-explained-four-minute-guide" target="_blank">Ethereum</a> sidechain network <a href="https://decrypt.co/resources/what-is-polygon-matic-and-why-it-matters-for-ethereum" target="_blank">Polygon</a>, is officially rolling out to the world. And the company says that demand for the platform so far has been “unprecedented.”

The Polygon (MATIC) price momentum registered a positive shift over the last 24 hours. The altcoin gained close to 3%. Meanwhile, on the weekly chart, MATIC is yet to recover from its losses. The technical outlook depicted positive price action; however, the coin is still not out of the woods.

Indian software engineer and co-founder of Polygon, Sandeep Nailwal, has responded to claims of Polygon using its investment funds to pay for company acquisitions and bribe people to use the chain. Nailwal’s remarks directly reply to the co-founder of Helius, a Solana-based startup, Mert Mumtaz.

Polygon has partnered with LGND Music and Warner Music to bring Music NFTs to the market. The first music NFTs will come in Jan 2023. By collaborating with some of the world’s leading organizations, Polygon has become a leading on-ramp to Web3. With this latest partnership, Polygon will introduce Music NFTs to the market in an open, sustainable, and permissionless environment. (coingape)

In its latest update, the classic Windows media player Winamp has integrated music NFTs into its platform. Winamp’s new feature will allow users to play audio files embedded in their <a href="https://decrypt.co/resources/non-fungible-tokens-nfts-explained-guide-learn-blockchain" target="_blank">non-fungible tokens</a>, calling it a Web3 desktop upgrade.

E-commerce and interactive platform builder LGND.io has announced a multi-year partnership with blockchain network developer Polygon and global entertainment company Warner Music Group to create a Web3 music platform called LGND Music.&nbsp;

Artists signed to Warner Music Group labels will release music NFTs through the upcoming Polygon-based marketplace <a href="https://www.lgndmusic.com/" target="_blank">LGND Music</a> thanks to a multi-year partnership announced today between the major record label, the <a href="https://decrypt.co/resources/what-is-ethereum-quickly-explained-four-minute-guide" target="_blank">Ethereum</a> sidechain network, and the <a href="https://decrypt.co/resources/what-is-web-3" target="_blank">Web3</a> music startup.

Flipkart, which happens to be the absolute top-of-the-line online commerce site, has duly kept up with its earlier commitment to blockchain technology and forged a lucrative merger deal with Polygon. Incidentally, Flipkart is one of the most well-known online sites based out of India and is highly popular and respected among the gentry. The aim and intention behind the inking of this mutually beneficial deal is to create the very base of the intended Blockchain-eCommerce Centre of Excellence. Therefore, this partnership is duly formed in all matters concerned after much forethought and calculated deliberations.