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Finance

Polygon Raises $450M From Sequoia Capital India, Galaxy, SoftBank to Support Web 3 Plans

Polygon will use the funding to build Web 3 applications and invest in zero-knowledge technology.

The Polygon team

Markets

Ethereum Suffers Worst Month in Nearly 2 Years, SOL Falls Even Harder

Most major altcoins have sunk more than bitcoin, with all members of the CoinDesk 20 digital assets deeply in the red in January.

January has not been kind to crypto markets. (Unsplash, modified by CoinDesk)

Finance

YouTube Loses Pair of Executives to Web 3

The long-time Googlers announced their departures on the same day YouTube’s CEO hinted at NFT plans.

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Markets

Polygon to Delegate $189M Worth of MATIC to Bitfinex for Staking

The new program may offer 41% in staking rewards on an annualized basis for a limited time.

The Polygon team

Finance

Opera Releases Web 3 Browser Ahead of Cross-Chain Wallet Launch

The browser includes a slew of new features aimed at onboarding some of Opera’s 350 million users to crypto.

The longstanding Norwegian browser company has been on a recent crypto streak. (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

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Binance Partners With Gulf Energy, Polygon’s Upgrade Live

Binance partners with Gulf Energy to establish a Thai crypto exchange. Korean public broadcaster opens metaverse studio for election. Polygon’s mainnet upgrade goes live. We’ll have more on those stories and other news shaping the cryptocurrency and blockchain world in this episode of “The Daily Forkast.”

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Finance

Indian Gaming Firm nCore Games Raises $10M for Web 3 Offerings: Report

The funding round was led by Animoca Brands and Galaxy Interactive and including participation from Polygon.

Indian rupees

Markets

‘Wen Token?’: Polymarket’s New Airdrop Futures Market Has Answers

Speculators can now bet on whether big-name crypto projects will airdrop a native token in Q1 2022.

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Technology

Polygon Stakes Claim to Fastest Zero-Knowledge Layer 2 With ‘Plonky2’ Launch

Th project’s co-founder cites new technology from one of its recently acquired scalability labs.

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Markets

2021: The Year of the Alts

The market has decided that it likes bitcoin more than it did a year ago – but it really, really likes ether and its layer 1 rivals.

Altcoins if they were people.