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Finance

Polygon Labs said to have laid off 60 staff following new $250 million acquisition

Ethereum scaling firm Polygon Labs disputed reports of a 30% workforce reduction, saying role overlaps from acquisitions drove the changes while its headcount remains the same.

Polygon logo on a screen (CoinDesk)

Finance

Polygon Labs pushes deeper into stablecoin payments with $250 million deal

The move comes as crypto projects increasingly position themselves as offering payment platforms that resemble traditional digital banks, but operate on blockchain rails.

Polygon Labs CEO Marc Boiron (Polygon Labs)

Finance

Polygon Labs unveils ‘Open Money Stack’ to power borderless stablecoin payments

The system will bring together various elements of the payment stack, including liquidity, orchestration, and regulatory controls.

Founder of Polygon and CEO Sandeep Nailwal (Polygon Labs)

Finance

Revolut Enlists Polygon for Stablecoin Remittances in UK and EEA

Revolut customers in the UK and non-European Union EEA countries can do crypto remittances in USDC, USDT, and POL.

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Finance

Flutterwave, Africa's $31B Payment Provider, Taps Polygon for Cross-Border Payments

The deal will roll out faster, low-cost payments for global firms such as Uber in more than 30 countries in Africa.

Globe showing Africa (James Wiseman/Unsplash, modified by CoinDesk)

Finance

Polygon, Standard Chartered Enlisted for AlloyX Tokenized Money Market Fund

New product offers stablecoin users regulated yields while linking DeFi strategies with traditional finance.

Hong Kong Harbor (Shutterstock/Modified by CoinDesk)

Tech

Polygon Spin-Off Miden Secures $25M to Bring Speed, Privacy to Institutional Giants

The funding round was led by a16z crypto, 1kx and Hack VC.

Funds rising (Darío Martínez-Batlle/Unsplash)

Markets

Mercado Bitcoin, Polygon Labs Look to Issue $200M Worth of Tokenized Assets in Latin America

The collaboration aims to expand access to tokenized private credit and other real-world assets in the region.

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Tech

Indian Telecom Giant Jio Joins Hands With Polygon to Bring Web3 to Over 450M Users

Polygon's CEO hailed the partnership as a significant step forward for Web3 adoption in India.

Indian billionaire Mukesh Ambani (YouTube)

Tech

Ethereum Layer-2 Teams Welcome Proposal to Overhaul Blockchain

Far from making zero-knowledge rollups obsolete, the Beam Chain would make them work better, says Polygon. zkSync builder Matter Labs is also bullish.

Ethereum itself is made up of several layers. (Annie Spratt/Unsplash)