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Polygon Studios CEO on Solana, Investment in Space

Polygon Studios CEO Ryan Wyatt, who is one of CoinDesk's Most Influential 2022, weighs in on Solana. "This space is really fragile and really nascent," he says. But, he explains why he is bullish about a multi-chain future.

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Tech

DeFi Project Mercurial Plots Revamp and New Tokens Following 'Toxic' Association With FTX

Mercurial would launch some of its popular products as a separate project under the name Meteora.

Piggy bank bent forward change money coins (Andre Taissin/Unsplash, modified by CoinDesk)

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Crypto Developers Reveal the Perils of Anonymity

The total value locked on the Solana network reached billions of dollars, based in part on sham protocols by two brothers working under multiple aliases. For showing how divorced TVL can be from the truth, Ian and Dylan Macalinao share a spot on CoinDesk’s Most Influential 2022.

Ian and Dylan Macalinao (Will Ess for Pixelmind.ai/CoinDesk)

Markets

Crypto's Ugly November Draws to Close With ‘Sam Coins’ in Gutter, Bitcoin Down 18%

The FTT token, along with Serum's SRM and Solana's SOL, plunged amid the dramatic collapse of Sam Bankman-Fried's FTX exchange. Bitcoin had its worst loss in five months.

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Videos

Solana-Focused Crypto Wallet Phantom Taps Ethereum, Polygon

Phantom, the leading crypto wallet in the Solana ecosystem, said Tuesday it will add support for assets on the Ethereum and Polygon blockchains, with the rollout beginning in about three months, according to a representative. "The Hash" panel discusses what this means for Solana and mainstream crypto adoption.

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Finance

Solana’s Top Crypto Wallet Phantom Looks to Ethereum, Polygon Next

Solana-focused crypto wallet Phantom is tapping Ethereum and Polygon for its expansion plan.

Brandom Millman, CEO de Phantom. (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

Web3

NFT Marketplace Magic Eden Expands Support for Polygon-Based NFTs

The leading Solana NFT platform will welcome a new community of Web3 gaming developers and publishers on the Polygon network.

(Polygon X Magic Eden)

Finance

Crypto Fund Sino Global Had Deep Ties to FTX Beyond Equity Investment

A prominent Asia-based crypto investment firm, Sino invested many of the tokens hardest hit by the unraveling of Sam Bankman-Fried's FTX crypto empire, documents show. FTX was also a key partner on a big fund Sino raised with outside investors' capital.

Sino Global Capital founder Matthew Graham. (CoinDesk TV)

Markets

Crypto Market Slides After Genesis Withdrawal Halt, but Big Investors May Hunt for Bargains

Most digital assets traded lower on Wednesday as another crypto firm gets hit by the FTX contagion, although institutional investors may be looking for bargains.

Bitcoin and most other digital assets declined on Wednesday after crypto financial firm Genesis Global Capital announced that it was temporarily suspending redemptions and new loan originations. (Source: CoinDesk)