Stripe reinstates crypto payments for US businesses via USDC on Ethereum, Solana and Polygon

Greetings 😎, Last Edition of the Validator Spotlight Season 2 📌 ✨Validator Spotlight season 2✨ (Theme - Gemstones Collection) We are showcasing ‘BCW technologies’ for the Validator Spotlight season 2. The Validator Spotlight program is a series where PoS Validators are able to showcase themselves to the wider industry! A great chance to get to know more about the people behind the PoS Chain. BCW Technologies social IDs: https://bcw.group/ https://x.com/bcw_llc Remember the following quest is to find your password to mint the last edition NFT * Find pass code to unlock the NFT mint by reading blogpost Blogpost: https://go.polygon.technology/3AUm768 (Mint is live from 6th September to 10th September, 2024 with mint cap 5000) * NFT name - Sapphire 🔷 (https://app.galxe.com/quest/polygon/GC7xBtxW9h) Join discord Live on September 10th to learn more about their background, vision for staking, and more. Ten NFT claimers will be chosen to receive a giveaway🤩 by BCW technologies: Date: 10th September, 2024 Time: 3:00 PM UTC Link: https://discord.com/events/635865020172861441/1281629830391009280

Greetings 😎, ✨Validator Spotlight season 2✨ (Theme - Gemstones Collection) We are showcasing ‘Everstake’ for the Validator Spotlight season 2. The Validator Spotlight program is a series where PoS Validators are able to showcase themselves to the wider industry! A great chance to get to know more about the people behind the PoS Chain. Meria's social IDs: https://everstake.one/ https://x.com/everstake_pool Remember the following quest is to find your password to mint the third edition NFT * Find pass code to unlock the NFT mint by reading blogpost Blogpost: https://polygon.technology/blog/polygon-pos-validator-spotlight-everstake (Mint is live from 27th Jun to 2nd July, 2024 with mint cap 5000) * NFT name - Diamond 💎 (https://app.galxe.com/quest/polygon/GCzXitgbp2) Join discord Live on July 3rd to learn more about their background, vision for staking, and more. Ten NFT claimers will be chosen to receive a giveaway🤩 by Everstake: Date: 3rd July, 2024 Time: 2.30 PM CET Link: https://discord.com/events/635865020172861441/1255870271303319652

🌍 Join One World One Dollar Game by SukuPay on Polygon PoS! 🌎 Sign up in less than 30 seconds to win up to $45,000! 💎 What is One World One Dollar? To celebrate SukuPay’s launch, Suku launched the One World One Dollar game. The objective is to transfer $1 to every country in the world using SukuPay - a digital wallet that allows users to send and receive money with just a phone number to +150 countries fee-free-. There are 36 different prizes, easy to achieve and win money! 💎 How to Play: Players will be airdropped $1 to their SukuPay wallet, accessible with their phone number, to start playing on May 2nd. 💎 Prize Pool: $45,000 Are you ready to join the game? 🖊️ Register now: One World One Dollar Game Registration ends April 30th and the game starts May 2nd.

Our friends at Suku are launching an exciting global competition named One World One Dollar, featuring a prize pool of up to $45,000! Snag a spot in this competition by pre-registering at preregister.oneworldonedollar.com.

b0rder1ess is a breaking down the walls between NFT and DeFi on Polygon PoS. Nothing is off limits. Enter a world of b0rder1ess possibilities Live: https://borderless.art/mint

Social-Fi is leveling up with Fantasy Friends, coming soon to Polygon PoS. Launching today with support for Friend.tech (and soon other SocialFi platforms on Polygon PoS), Fantasy Friends enables users to play daily fantasy-esque games on their favorite web3 platforms. Players can choose their 9-person team and "draft" SocialFi users for that tournament. Join tournaments with your favorite web3 tokens and play to win NFTs and prize pools, while creators and partners will be able to sponsor prizes. PVP on a massive scale. Next Steps: ⁃ Join the official Fantasy Friends Telegram ⁃ Claim your Polygon exclusive code (Link in pinned message in the Fantasy Friends Telegram) ⁃ Use the Polygon exclusive password: PolygonLovesFantasyFriends ⁃ Start competing for prizes immediately! Fantasy Friends Telegram: https://t.me/FantasyFri3nds

Time to step back into the arena with Champions Ascension ⚔️ They are running an awesome campaign called the Emperor's Legendary Crystals, and the crystals will be up for grabs for one week only. If you want to hop into the Champions ecosystem, this is also your chance to capture Prime Eternals, Elemental Eternals, Lootboxes, and a ‘Mystery NFT’ at the same time. All you need to compete are tickets earned in-game. Feb. 16- Feb 23 More: https://x.com/ChampionsIO/status/1758543465825083658?s=20

Surgence is helping to supercharge the growth of game developers within the Polygon ecosystem. Already empowering many builders in the web3 space, the team behind the Surgence web3 accelerator is now committed to supporting devs and web3 games in the Polygon ecosystem. In collaboration with Polygon Labs, Surgence will help builders pave the way for more groundbreaking gaming experiences using Polygon technology. https://www.surgence.io/

Vacation rentals are moving onchain. Dtravel is bridging real world assets to web3, tokenizing fiat and crypto vacation rental bookings on Polygon PoS. Through the platform, Dtravel DAO is introducing new revenue opportunities for operators and bringing unparalleled flexibility to the booking process for travelers via secondary sales, while opening up possibilities for DeFi lending and borrowing. The team is also spearheading the development of the Nite Protocol, an open standard listing and booking protocol for the vacation rental industry. Nite Tokens will serve as an essential component to the protocol, allowing anyone to verifiably prove who holds the right to stay at a given property. These tokens will be transferred from a vacation rental operator’s listing smart contract to their guest’s wallet using Polygon PoS. https://www.dtravel.com/

🍋 The Etrog upgrade for Polygon zkEVM is coming to mainnet Once the upgrade goes live, Polygon zkEVM will likely be the first ZK rollup to reach this milestone — a engineering feat achieved in less than one year. The network will evolve into a Type 2 ZK-EVM, i.e., an EVM-equivalent ZK rollup! ⛓️ What is this important for the blockchain? - A Type 2 ZK-EVM offers the optimal balance between making it easy for devs to deploy, while still being fast and cheap ⚡ What does this mean for devs? - Polygon zkEVM has, in effect, met Vitalik's criteria for a Type 2. So you can deploy your code on Polygon zkEVM exactly as it is on Ethereum — just copy-paste and go, no additional auditing or modifications necessary 🖥️ What's the impact from an end user's perspective? - You don’t need to take any action to continue using Polygon zkEVM - It’s expected that network efficiency — and overall throughput — will improve making the Polygon zkEVM experience feel smoother

Solving the Monolithic vs. Modular dilemma with a new blockchain design: Aggregation What is the AggLayer? The AggLayer will use ZK proofs to create a seamless, aggregated environment that feels like a single chain – even as each chain in the ecosystem remains sovereign... 🌉 No more cumbersome and frequent bridging! ⚡ Enables near-instant, atomic transactions, unifies liquidity across the ecosystem, creates capital efficiency, and dramatically improves UX 💧 For L1s and L2s connected to AggLayer, maintain full sovereignty but also get to tap into a huge pool of unified liquidity, making it easy to bootstrap liquidity 🙌 For users, it will feel like using a single chain 🟪 In the end state of AggLayer, end users will be able to execute cross-chain atomic transactions in < 1 second More info about the AggLayer in the BlogPost

Meet the latest addition to the Polygon PoS gaming ecosystem 👋🏽 Pink Moon Studios, previously known as Kryptomon Company, is migrating their flagship franchise the KMON Game Saga to Polygon PoS. This strategic shift underscores the studio's unwavering commitment to innovation and community engagement in web3 gaming. Kryptomon has introduced several features to enrich the player experience like: - KMON AI: to interact with NFT creatures in unique ways - Diamond Contract: for a robust onchain contract system - NFT Forging System: for creating unique in-game items - KMarket: a proprietary digital assets marketplace - MORE To celebrate the migration, an innovative, AI-powered NFT gaming utility item is being launched to offer KMON players access to token-gated game-knowledge AI resources and enhanced gaming experiences – the KoaOS. Stay tuned for WL and more. Learn more about KMON and what they're building here: https://www.kryptomon.co/kmon-evolutions

Introducing the new, Sepolia-anchored testnet for Polygon PoS - Amoy testnet. Based on community feedback, Amoy has been launched as a low-stakes environment to build, test, and break things. Here's why. The Mumbai testnet for Polygon PoS depends on Ethereum’s Goerli as the…

Transaction fee calculations on Polygon zkEVM are changing. Today, effectiveGasPrice was enabled on Polygon zkEVM Mainnet Beta. The new mechanism uses the amount of execution in any given transaction and data availability to provide users with transaction fees that are more…

Polygon Miden uses recursive verification and aggregation to improve execution efficiency and overall throughput. For the Miden rollup, which is powered by the Miden VM, implementing recursive proof verification has to account for features not found in other ZK rollups,…

Interesting thread, but worth noting: Stylus wouldn't reduce fees for existing Ethereum applications. Parallel EVMs do reduce fees but not by increasing the number of cores. Quick 🧵on EVM+ and parallel EVM [1/5]

The Miden Compiler is being developed at Polygon Miden so that the rollup can support smart contracts written in Rust and possibly other developer friendly languages in the future. It can be useful in two ways: -As a compiler backend for existing languages that wish to target…

In the latest installment of @AvailProject 's whiteboard series, @bobbinth and @prabalbanerjee dive into core architectural concepts of Polygon Miden and the principles shaping the unique ZK rollup’s development. Full episode here: https://t.co/a20wksUWSO Polygon Miden,…

Developers building with Polygon CDK will soon be able to choose from multiple EVM clients for their chain: cdk-erigon will be the second high-performance execution client for Polygon CDK. With cdk-erigon, the ultra-fast, memory-optimized Erigon node is coming to zero-knowledge…

How is Web Assembly used at Polygon Miden? Some say it's “a new development paradigm for the web”. Let’s see how Polygon Miden leverages Web Assembly for its two main benefits: portability and flexibility. Portability The Miden VM is written entirely in Rust and can be compiled…

The @0xPolygonLabs portal is safe from ledger connect kit issue. You can continue using the Polygon portal as normal for bridging, staking, and other operations.

This week, the researchers and engineers building Polygon Miden completed a test version of the node that will manage the state of the rollup. This is what the Miden Node does and how it functions for user-generated state transitions. The basic functions of this first version of…

Any monolithic chain design cannot take web3 to planetary scale, multi independent state machine(aka multichain) with seamless cross chain interoperability is the only way to achieve internet level scale for Web3 L2s enable it @0xPolygon is building Planetary scale Infra for…

What an honour to announce Safe{RecoveryHub} at @0xPolygon Connect in Bangalore yesterday. Thanks @sandeepnailwal @0xAishwary for letting us crash the party with this major announcement for the year 🛟💜

To achieve parallel execution in Polygon Miden, researchers had to look beyond account-based systems like Ethereum to UTXO-based systems like Bitcoin and Zcash. The end result is a transaction model distinct among ZK rollups.

Whiteboard Series with NEAR | Ep: 51 Director of NEAR Protocol @BowenWang18 discusses Polygon zkEVM with @jbaylina , cofounder of @0xPolygonLabs . They unpack proving systems, polynomial commitments and L2/L1 interactions. You don't want to miss this.

The state model in Polygon Miden gives users the option to store their account and note data in two ways: 1. Public and on-chain 2. Private and off-chain These options create different degrees of privacy. With public storage, the data is on-chain and visible to everyone.…

Building a zero-knowledge rollup for client-side proving requires quite a bit of extra work: To have both parallel transaction execution and privacy, we need Notes and Nullifiers and a way of storing them that is privacy-preserving

📢A MASSIVE shoutout to the public goods heroes that make the magic of Quadratic Funding possible. 👏Thank you to our Program Round funders: @0xPolygonLabs , @arbitrum & Devcon Supporters Program. We cannot do what we do without you 💚 Thank you for Funding What Matters,…

Hey all, Congratulations🎉🎉! Whoever has claimed the third ‘Firekeeper’ NFT (Validator: Staking4all) We have completed the Firekeeper NFT mint (1000) 🎉 Validator Spotlight program where Validators share their experience/ their project and experience on Polygon POS Network. Season 1 includes 5 validators. (As of now we have completed 3 Validators with 3 NFTs. Grab all 5 NFTs for special giveaway at the end of the season!)🎁 We will share the details soon for our next Mint and Validator (Kiln x Ownest) as well! Stay tune!

Greetings All, 😎 Last reminder 🚩 Today is the last day to mint NFT by searching password provided in meet/ in blogpost (https://polygon.technology/blog/spotlight-quest-polygon-validators-staking4all) * NFT name - The FireKeeper (https://galxe.com/polygon/campaign/GCVgStUd1j ) If you have already minted previous NFT’s of Validator spotlight then do not miss this as there is giveaway 🎁🎁at the end of the season. Few NFTs remaining grab soon! Kind regards, Validator Engagement

🤩 Get ready for Bingo round two! Make the SWITCH and explore the web3 social projects in today’s round of Bingo for more rewards. - Head to https://www.coinvise.co/switch/bingo-2 - Complete the on-chain & off-chain tasks - Explore XMTP, Tako Protocol, and BLOCKdSocial - Fill out half of the Bingo card - Receive your exclusive NFT rewards - Use your NFT for exclusive rewards ✨ Today’s rewards - XMTP NFT & $1 USDC for every person you get to message back. - BLOCKdSocial NFT rewards, plus tokens. (Rewards will be given out in raffle style) More info coming soon. Register and start exploring Social Switch powered by Coinvise and Polygon Labs with add-on rewards by Unstoppable Domains Embark on an incredible journey with promising rewards.

100%, been saying this. Generalized fraud proofs are actually difficult and complex - how do you provably guarantee that the attacker can't put the dispute game in an unreachable state? ZKPs are complex due to immature tooling, but we're fixing this very quickly. Soon we'll…

Upcoming Polygon zkEVM Mainnet Beta Update An update of Polygon zkEVM Mainnet Beta infrastructure will occur on November 23, at 13:00 UTC. The update should take approximately 30 minutes. The network will be available during the update, except for ~2 mins for sequencer restart.…

Greetings All, Get your calendars ready! ✨✨ We have the Validator Spotlight program showcasing Staking4all The Validator Spotlight program is a series where PoS Validators are able to showcase themselves to the wider industry! A great chance to get to know more about the people behind the PoS Chain. Dates (There are 2 sessions so everyone can attend!): 5pm - 6pm UTC - 22nd November, 2023 - Twitter Space ( https://twitter.com/i/spaces/1LyGBnVzYYkGN ) 5pm - 6pm UTC - 23rd November, 2023 - Discord ( https://discord.gg/fyaj8Y83?event=1176203595725680671 ) Remember the following quest to find your password to mint the third edition NFT (If you have already minted previous NFTs then do not miss the third!).🎁 * Find phrase code to unlock the NFT mint by listening to meets/ in blogpost * NFT name - The FireKeeper (https://galxe.com/polygon/campaign/GCVgStUd1j ) Kind regards, Validator Engagement

Welcome to Social SWITCH, your passport to the world of web3 socials in the Polygon ecosystem, powered by Coinvise and PolygonLabs with rewards by Unstoppable Domains. Register and start exploring: https://www.coinvise.co/switch/register Let’s begin. Starting today, we’re setting off on a journey to celebrate the social projects living on Polygon. We’re honoring artists, creators, developers, and enthusiasts through activities, spaces, dApp access, and a limited edition, soulbound NFT for participation. The first activity? BINGO. Challenge yourself by completing onchain tasks, and discovering some of the web3 social media platforms. ~Head to https://www.coinvise.co/switch/bingo-1 ~Complete the listed tasks ~Explore Push Protocol, Revel, and Qrollii ~Fill out the entire Bingo card ~Receive your exclusive NFT rewards ~Use your NFT for exclusive rewards

I called it! Really cool work from @jimpo_potamus and Ben. https://t.co/2bBP3Nvqug

𝕀𝕋'𝕊 𝕋𝕀𝕄𝔼 𝕋𝕆 𝕄𝔸𝕂𝔼 𝕋ℍ𝔼 𝕊𝕎𝕀𝕋ℂℍ 🤳 Introducing Social SWITCH, your source to all the up-and-coming web3 social platforms and creators across the Polygon ecosystem. Next week will be filled with activities, product demonstrations, Spaces, vibes, exclusive dApp access, and a limited-edition soulbound NFT. 💫 Join us to celebrate the artists, creators and developers in the web3 social space, and get rewarded along the way. Register for Social SWITCH powered by Coinvise. Your journey is about to begin: https://www.coinvise.co/switch/register

Greetings community, A few hours ago the PoS network saw high levels of activity and a surge in gas due to minting of Ordinal type NFTs. (see link below) These are now all minted, gas prices are receding now and should continue to normal levels. https://dune.com/satsx/prc-20-pols-indexer-prc20-pols

OKX, a leading crypto exchange and Web3 ecosystem, is launching a zero knowledge L2 network built with Polygon CDK (Polygon Chain Development Kit), the open-source toolkit that makes it easy to build sovereign Ethereum L2s Introducing X1 X1 will be a secure, highly performant platform for building dApps. Connect to the testnet for X1 today! 🔐 Secure and seemless 🌐 Harmonized Liquidity 💪 OKX as a Core Contributor to Polygon CDK 📖 Learn more in our Blog Post

OKX, a leading crypto exchange and Web3 ecosystem, is launching a zero knowledge L2 network built with Polygon CDK (Polygon Chain Development Kit), the open-source toolkit that makes it easy to build sovereign Ethereum L2s Introducing X1 X1 will be a secure, highly performant platform for building dApps. Connect to the testnet for X1 today! 🔐 Secure and seemless 🌐 Harmonized Liquidity 💪 OKX as a Core Contributor to Polygon CDK 📖 Learn more in our Blog Post

🟣 Polygon Labs is in Turkey 🇹🇷 to get together with builders, researchers, founders, and community members! We’re out in full force to mentor at hackathons, discuss the Polygon 2.0 rollout, share the future of Polygon Miden, and help educate devs on Polygon CDK. Sandeep Nailwal, Jordi Baylina, Bobbin Threadbare, Hudson Jameson, and more will be in attendance speaking. Nov 10-12 | ZK Hack Istanbul Nov 13 - 14 | TrustX 2023 Nov 14 | The Responsible Revolution w/ Polygon Labs, Impact Plus & Gitcoin Nov 15 | ETH Infra Day Nov 15 | Infra Gardens Istanbul w/ Polygon Labs, Phala Network, DIA & idOS Nov 16 | ETHGlobal Pragma Istanbul Nov 16 | Polygon Labs & OKX Developer Mixer Nov 16 - 17 | 0xPARC & Privacy Scaling’s Progcrypto Nov 17 - 19 | ETHGlobal Istanbul ⬇️ More info ⬇️ https://events.polygon.technology/devconnect

🌱 It takes a village to build a unicorn 🎉 We are excited to announce that Polygon Village is back, and here to help founders and startups building in web3! 🟣 What’s good in the Village? 🪙 Village Grants - a newly-created grant program of more than 110 million MATIC to help founders successfully grow in the Polygon ecosystem 💡 Village Build Ideas - a catalog of use cases, waiting to be born, with milestone-based grants, 1:1 mentoring and support 🤝 Village Startup Support - a tailored support program offering immersive guidance, 1:1 mentorship, access to an elite network & vouchers from Solution Providers So, whether you're a founder, an entrepreneur, or simply a developer experimenting with web3, this is the place for you. We've got your back, and we're here to help you thrive. Go to the Polygon Discord server, pick your Village role and involve yourself 🌐 Join the Village now

🌱 It takes a village to build a unicorn 🎉 We are excited to announce that Polygon Village is back, and here to help founders and startups building in web3! 🟣 What’s good in the Village? 🪙 Village Grants - a newly-created grant program of more than 110 million MATIC to help founders successfully grow in the Polygon ecosystem 💡 Village Build Ideas - a catalog of use cases, waiting to be born, with milestone-based grants, 1:1 mentoring and support 🤝 Village Startup Support - a tailored support program offering immersive guidance, 1:1 mentorship, access to an elite network & vouchers from Solution Providers So, whether you're a founder, an entrepreneur, or simply a developer experimenting with web3, this is the place for you. We've got your back, and we're here to help you thrive. Go to the Polygon Discord server, pick your Village role and involve yourself 🌐 Join the Village now

Building a zero-knowledge rollup for client-side proving requires quite a bit of extra work: We want certain notes only to be consumed (even locally) by the specified target

REMINDER: The $POL Upgrade is now live on #Ethereum ⚡️ You can find the $POL contract at the following ENS: pol-token.eth Contract Address: 0x455e53CBB86018Ac2B8092FdCd39d8444aFFC3F6 Also find the migrator contract at the following ENS: migrator.pol-token.eth Contract Address: 0x29e7DF7b6A1B2b07b731457f499E1696c60E2C4e A notable list of DEXs have already integrated with the $POL contract internally, there you'll be able to utilize 1:1 swaps from $MATIC to $POL respectively: 🔸 https://www.paraswap.io/ 🔸 https://kyberswap.com/ 🔸 https://swap.cow.fi/ Steps to migrate: 👇🏻 1) Visit any of the above DEXs 2) Make sure you're on the #Ethereum mainnet 3) Make sure your wallet has some $ETH to cover gas fees 4) Select $MATIC to $POL (or vice versa) 5) Sign the transaction & complete the swap 📝 FAQ 1️⃣ Is there anything I need to do today as a Polygon PoS, Polygon zkEVM user or MATIC holder? Nothing. This upgrade does not change active systems on either the Polygon PoS or Polygon zkEVM networks at this time. All existing contracts will function as previously designed. If you would like to join the governance process and give your input, you can join the discussion on the forum. 2️⃣ Is there anything I need to do today as a node operator or staker? Nothing. You can provide feedback on the proposed changes in the PIPs and monitor Github and the forum for new node software versions to remain compatible with your given chain when PIPs are approved by the community. 3️⃣ Is there anything I need to do today as an application or tooling developer? Nothing. Please review the relevant PIPs, provide feedback on the proposed changes and analyze if any changes break your smart contracts. Developers for applications on the Polygon PoS should not see any breaking changes. 4️⃣ Is there anything I need to do if my $MATIC tokens are either on the Polygon PoS chain, or on any major CEX (ie: Binance, Coinbase, Kucoin, ByBit etc..)? Nothing. The process will be seamlessly automated and won't need any additional input from holders.

For proof generation, MidenVM uses the RPO hash function. Though traditional hash functions like BLAKE3 are very fast, they are not optimal for use inside zero-knowledge proof systems. For efficient recursive proof generation, you need a ZK-friendly hash function. But why use…

Building a zero-knowledge rollup for client-side proving requires quite a bit of extra work: Our feature set required a radical new approach for capturing the network’s state

This month, the team behind Polygon Miden released a new version of Miden VM (v0.7). This latest version includes a variety of new features, the sum of which improved VM performance by 30%. Among those new features is a variation of Falcon signature verification, a key building…