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Web3

NFT Trading Is Ice Cold But Developers Are Still Hot for Web3

This week, new reports were released that point to a major slowdown in NFT trading. Plus, Etihad Airways will soon let its community of frequent fliers stake NFTs for miles.

3D planes from the EY-ZERO1 NFT collection. (OpenSea)

Tech

Matter Labs Accuses Polygon of Spreading "Untrue Claims" With Code-Copying Allegations

In a blog post, Polygon alleged that Matter Labs copied its open-source code without providing attribution. Matter Labs said the code was "prominently attributed."

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

Videos

X Faces New Competition From Suku on Crypto Payment Adoption Plans

Web3 wallet Suku recently teamed up with Polygon to release a free open-edition NFT collection. Within the 48-hour mint period, users minted over 50,000 NFTs directly on X, formerly known as Twitter. Lucas Henning, Suku’s Chief Technology Officer and co-founder, joins "The Hash" to discuss the partnership with Polygon and the future of transactions over social media platforms.

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Web3

Suku May Beat Musk to Crypto Twitter Payment Adoption

Last week, Web3 wallet Suku teamed up with Polygon to release a free open-edition NFT collection – during which users minted over 50,000 NFTs directly on Twitter.

Suku and Polygon's Twitter-based NFT mint (Suku)

Web3

Palm Foundation to Scale Its Native Network to Support NFT Minting and Trading

In partnership with Consensys and Polygon Labs, the Palm Network will evolve to facilitate more efficient NFT minting and trading for its 1.7 million registered wallet addresses.

Executive Director of the Palm Foundation Andrea Lerdo and Co-founder of Polygon Sandeep Nailwal (Palm Foundation)

Web3

Reddit Brings In Good Karma With Gen 4 Collectible NFT Avatars

The latest release of colorful interpretations of the platform's “Snoo" character is titled "Retro Reimagined."

Reddit avatars (Reddit.com)

Finance

Italy’s Central Bank Taps Polygon, Fireblocks DeFi Project to Help Institutions Dabble With Tokenized Assets

The initiative aims to help Italian banks, asset managers and financial institutions, including the $1 trillion banking group Intesa Sanpaolo, experiment with decentralized finance and security tokens.

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Policy

Myanmar Shadow Government to Start Neobank With Crypto Rails to Fund Fight Against Military Junta

The National Unity Government (NUG) bank is set to run on Polygon and do currency swaps via Uniswap v3 pools and USDT stablecoins.

The bank's web-based app will have a beta launch on July 22, and be available on Google Play and Apple’s App Store. (Image from SDB)

Finance

Solana Foundation, Polygon Lead $30M Fundraise for Web3 Firm Cosmic Wire

The startup offers metaverse creation tools and a list of general blockchain infrastructure solutions.

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Tech

Polygon Mulls Governance Restructure in Polygon 2.0 Roadmap

Developers have proposed an “Ecosystem Council” to push smart contract upgrades, as well as changes to how community-based funding works.

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