Researchers who happen to be with Polygon have reached out to the community to gain their active involvement, so far as the testnet is concerned. However, this happens to be a step under the fundamental characteristic of Ethereum, which has always looked to collective contribution on all important matters.

Ethereum scaling platform Polygon launched its second public testnet, moving the platform to its final stage before mainnet launch.

The year 2022 was quite the opposite of eventful for the crypto industry, as the market witnessed a number of crashes that shook investors. Despite the market’s high volatility, Polygon [MATIC] continued to improve its network and hit several milestones along the way.

The interchain communication protocol, Axelar, has announced a $60M funding program to drive innovation for web3 startups building during the bear market.

The founder of Polygon – Sandeep Nailwal – has assembled a team of founders gathered from the entire Web3 ecosystem – and has launched a startup accelerator to power the future growth of the nascent industry.

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.