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Polygon Labs Cuts 19% of Staff, 60 Roles, for 'Enhanced Performance'

The Ethereum-focused developer firm attributes the layoffs to working more effectively, rather than financial reasons.

Polygon Labs CEO Marc Boiron (Polygon Labs)

Tech

Polygon Plans 'AggLayer,' in Bid to Synthesize Modular, Monolithic Blockchains

The new "AggLayer," set for launch next month, relies on zero-knowledge proofs, a type of cryptography that Polygon Labs is betting on as a core underpinning of future blockchain architecture.

Polygon co-founders Sandeep Nailwal, Jordi Baylina and Antoni Martin (Polygon)

Tech

Fox, Polygon Release Blockchain-Powered Tool 'Verify' to Weed Out Deepfakes

"Verify" is an open-source protocol built on Polygon's PoS blockchain, specifically used to establish the origin and history of registered media.

Screenshot from the new "Verify" tool showing a successful authentication – with transaction hash – of a Fox News article. (VerifyMedia/CoinDesk)

Tech

Chainlink Data Feeds Available on Polygon zkEVM

Developers building on Polygon’s zkEVM will be able to incorporate these data feeds into their on-chain applications.

Sergey Nazarov Chainlink Co-founder (Chainlink Labs)

Tech

Polygon to Offer Data Solution Celestia as Option for New Layer-2 Developers

Celestia's "data availability" solution – pitched as a cheaper alternative to storing data on Ethereum – will become an option for builders who are using Polygon’s customizable software stack to spin up new layer-2 networks.

Polygon co-founder Sandeep Nailwal (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

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Ethereum's 'Next Wave' of Adoption Is Coming: Optimism Unlimited Chief Growth Officer

Optimism Unlimited Ltd. Chief Growth Officer Ryan Wyatt, who previously worked at Polygon Labs and YouTube, discusses his new role at an operating subsidiary of the Optimism Foundation. Wyatt discusses Optimism's competitive advantages against other layer 2 blockchains in the Ethereum ecosystem, along with possible partnership plans and insights into the future of decentralized Web3 gaming.

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Finance

Polygon Labs Commences $85M Grant Program to Draw Builders to Its Ecosystem

Polygon Labs is offering 110 million of its native token, MATIC, to projects in DeFi, gaming and social media, among others.

Polygon co-founders Sandeep Nailwal, Jordi Baylina and Antoni Martin (Polygon)

Finance

Near Foundation and Polygon Labs Collaborate to Build ZK Solution

The aim of the tie-up is to allow for greater interoperability across chains.

Polygon APIs will soon be available on The Graph. (Aquaryus15/Unsplash)

Finance

Polygon Co-Founder Jaynti Kanani Steps Down

Kanani founded Polygon in 2017 alongside Sandeep Nailwal and Anurag Arjun.

The Polygon team

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The Benefits of Staking at Home

As part of CoinDesk's Staking Week, presented by Foundry, Polygon Labs VP of Governance and Community Hudson Jameson discusses the benefits of staking at home, including not having to pay the fees to those allowing users to deposit ETH to stake, lessons learned, and why it "protects the network." Foundry and CoinDesk are both owned by DCG.

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