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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.

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.

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.”

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.

‘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.

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.

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.

Is 2022 the Year of Ethereum?
Global Innovation Leader at Ernst & Young Paul Brody discusses his CoinDesk article titled “2022 Is the Year of Ethereum,” offering insights into why Ethereum will become the dominant blockchain ecosystem. Brody explains how layer 2 solutions like Polygon resolve the issue of Ethereum’s gas fees and gives his perspective on competing projects like Solana and Cosmos.

Polygon Under Accidental Attack From Swarm of Sunflower Farmers
A popular new blockchain game is congesting Polygon, sending gas prices soaring.

CoinDesk Releases Annual Report Highlighting Key Trends in Crypto
CoinDesk Research Associate George Kaloudis joins the “First Mover” panel to discuss the 2021 CoinDesk Annual Report. Topics include the decline of bitcoin dominance, Ethereum gas fees triggering the rise of scaling-focused altcoins like Polygon and Solana, and how El Salvador’s legalization of bitcoin impacted the crypto market. Plus, a look into the future of bitcoin mining as Kazakhstan, the country that became second only to the US in bitcoin mining hashrate, is suffering the worst protests in 30 years and internet blackouts.
